In addition to the Justice League: War sequel Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Warner’s 2015 line-up for its DC Universe Animated Original Movies line will see a loose adaptation of The New 52’s ‘The Court of Owls’ story arc in the Son of Batman follow-up Batman Versus Robin, and the official cover art has now […]
The Week in Spandex – Batman, Wonder Woman, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Flash / Arrow, Constantine and more
Our weekly round-up of the latest news and talking points from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League Dark, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham, Constantine, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Agent Carter, Big Hero 6, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse and more…. It’s […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Lovecraft’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Gotham… A Penny(worth) for your thoughts? Alfred gets medieval while ‘Gotham’ goes to the dogs… ‘Lovecraft’ is a great name but not it turns out such a great title. What we have here is failure to communicate. Danny Cannon and Bruno Heller, who represent the creative help in […]
5 Actors Who Could Play The Joker
Christian Bale on Ben Affleck taking over as Batman
With Christian Bale set to take on the role of Moses in next month’s Exodus: Gods and Kings, it’s inevitable that the press tour for the biblical epic is going to throw up plenty of questions about his thoughts on Warner Bros.’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Empire Magazine (via CBM) has got […]
Across the Shared Marvel Universe
Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Variety’s Maane Khatchatourian covers James Gunn’s Facebook comments regarding shared movie universe building: “The director implies that franchises like “Star Wars,” “Iron Man,” “The Dark Knight” and even “Transformers” and “Twilight” are in the clear because they were conceived as single films and only grew into movie series […]
Gotham showrunner plans “prenatal origin story” for Robin, talks Harley Quinn and Scarecrow
Last week it was reported that The Flying Graysons are to make an appearance in Gotham this season, and now showrunner Bruno Heller has confirmed the news, telling EW that: “We’re going to do a prenatal origin story for Robin down the line. There are no MRIs involved. There’s an episode coming up where we […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Harvey Dent’
Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Gotham… Gotham’s most famous schizophrenic makes his entrance…… Nicholas D’Agosto is a whole bag of crazy. Clean cut image, catalogue model looks and a smile so superficial you know something sinister lies beneath. In political terms Bill Hicks once said that ‘anyone that far to the right is […]
LEGO Batman movie will explore “every era of Batman filmmaking”
One of the most popular elements of this year’s widely successful The LEGO Movie was Will Arnett’s Batman. So popular was he that he’s getting his own spin-off movie in 2017. Speaking out the movie to Empire, Phil Lord and Chris (who will serve as producers on the movie) gave some insights as to what […]
