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Video Game Review – Batman: The Telltale Series Episode Two – ‘Children of Arkham’

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Thomas Roach reviews Batman: The Telltale Series Episode Two – ‘Children of Arkham’… Children of Arkham picks up immediately after the events of the previous chapter, Realm of Shadows. Bruce is coming to terms with the truth that his father was involved with organised crime within Gotham. Bruce has to deal with the fact that his Father’s […]

Gotham Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘Better To Reign In Hell…’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Gotham season 3… There is a dark, sordid undercurrent to this opening episode which promises much and delivers more. Gotham spends its first forty minutes and change planting seeds and continuing the story with economy and no little confidence. Canvases have been broadened, characters deliver swagger along with […]

Are we drowning in nostalgia?

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Anghus Houvouras on whether we’re drowning in nostalgia… Yes. We absolutely are. There’s the short version for anyone who doesn’t feel like putting any additional thought into the subject. I’m nothing if not considerate. We are currently adrift in a sea of the familiar. Living in an era of entertainment avarice where our fondest wishes […]

The evolution of the Batman suit on screen from 1943 to 2017

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Luke Owen looks back at Batman’s past… As Saturday was Batman Day [you can read two other op-eds here and here] and following on from my look back at the evolution of Spider-Man and Daredevil‘s costumes (and the Batmobile), I thought it would be fun to look back at all the big screen and (some […]

Suicide Squad passes Captain America: The Winter Solider and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 at the box office

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Though it received some rather dreadful reviews and some pretty bad publicity following its release, Suicide Squad has earned another notch on its box office belt this weekend. Gorssing another $4 million from this weekend, Suicide Squad has now passed both Captain America: The Winter Solider ($714 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($708 million) at […]

Rumoured details on LEGO’s DC Super Hero Girls sets

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Back in April of 2015, Warner Bros. announced the launch of DC Super Hero Girls, a new female-centred line of animated projects, toys, books and apparel; the original announcement also included a range of LEGO sets, and now thanks to Eurobricks user CM4Sci (via The Brick Fan) it seems we have details on said sets, which […]

Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn doesn’t care about Marvel vs DC rivalry

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We may be experiencing the Golden Age of the superhero movie, but there are a large number of fans who remain loyal to their respective brand, be it Marvel or DC, and are fiercely critical of anything put out by the “other side”. Occasionally, the fires of this “rivalry” are stoked by someone involved with either the Marvel […]

Knightmare Flash and Cyborg costume designs from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

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Hollywood costume design company Ironhead Studio has shared an image of two maquettes it created for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, featuring The Flash’s prototype suit glimpsed ever-so-briefly during the Knightmare dream sequence, along with an unused design for Cyborg; check them out here… What do you make of the costumes? How does Cyborg’s […]