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The Week in Spandex – Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Daredevil, Deadpool, The Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Shazam, The Crow, Heroes Reborn and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy, Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Deadpool, X-Men, Suicide Squad, Shazam, Gotham, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Heroes Reborn, Powers, The Crow and more… There’s less than five […]

Cameron Monaghan on playing ‘The Joker’ in Gotham

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In its sixteenth episode ‘The Blind Fortune Teller’ [read our review here], Gotham took what is presumed to be the first step in exploring the origins of The Joker as Cameron Monaghan took on the role of ‘Jerome’ in the Batman prequel series, and now the young actor has been speaking about portraying the potential […]

More rumours about Batman’s involvement in Suicide Squad

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Back in January it was reported that Ben Affleck’s Batman could make an appearance in Suicide Squad to set up a future solo movie, and now El Mayimbe of Latino-Review has posted a few more rumours regarding The Dark Knight’s involvement with Warner’s upcoming DC supervillain ensemble. The report claims that, “In the film Batman […]

Jason Todd fan film Grayson: Earth One – “The Boy and The Bullet”

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From P3Series comes Grayson: Earth One Ep.1.5 “The Boy and The Bullet“, a non-profit fan film following a 17 year old car thief named Jason Todd (Jono Cota), whom in another life, becomes the second Robin. Instead, Jason is left to navigate America’s most dangerous city in search for purpose, safety and a family to […]

Chris Chalk cast as Lucius Fox in Gotham, Jada Pinkett Smith not returning for season 2

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FOX has added another key character from the Batman mythos to the cast of its prequel series Gotham, with Chris Chalk (Homeland, 12 Years a Slave) signing on to play Wayne Enterprises tech expert Lucius Fox. Chalk will make his debut in episode 21 of the first season, with an option to return for season […]

Gotham Season 1 Episode 16 Review – ‘The Blind Fortune Teller’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Gotham… Any time somebody brings circuses into the equation things turn sinister. Tempered by the needs of a mainstream audience and being firmly pre-watershed, this circus is not quite the denizen of freaks you would expect. There is a hint of lecherous behaviour, fist fights and family feuds […]

The Week in Spandex – Spider-Man & Marvel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Deadpool, Suicide Squad, Shazam, Gotham’s Joker, Kick-Ass 3 and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Spider-Man, The Sinister Six, Venom, Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Inhumans, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Daredevil, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Wolverine 3, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide […]

Gotham showrunner comments on the introduction of The Joker

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Earlier in the week, Fox debuted a promo for the upcoming sixteenth episode of Gotham, which seemed to indicate that the episode would introduce the show’s version of The Joker, a.k.a. Jerome, played by Cameron Monaghan (Shameless) [watch the promo here]. Well, The Hollywood Reporter caught up with showrunner Bruno Heller, asking him whether that […]

Take a look back at the cinematic evolution of Batman

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The most enduring superhero of them all in cinema terms is The Dark Knight, with over ten screen interpretations of the Batman character since his comic book debut in May 1939. Today, an 11-minute video has surfaced which brings together all of those different versions of the character in a wonderful retrospective look, which includes […]