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Gotham Season 1 Episode 12 Review – ‘What the Little Bird Told Him’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Gotham… This should have been called something like ‘Coming Home To Roost’, more snappy, less obvious, no spoon feeding of your demographic. This would make for a less obvious tagline and therefore a more entertaining forty minutes of television. As it is we get ‘What the Little Bird […]

Gotham Season 1 Episode 11 Review – ‘Rogue’s Gallery’

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Martin Carr reviews the eleventh episode of Gotham… I am going to say something which makes me sound old. Watching the latest episode from Gotham’s playlist this week made me think of Terri Hatcher. Not the Hatcher from televisual travesty Desperate Housewives, but more so the sultry persona which made The New Adventures of Superman […]

Gotham Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘Lovecraft’

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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 […]

Gotham Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Harvey Dent’

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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 […]

Are we at risk of Batman fatigue?

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Tom Jolliffe on whether an overabundance of the Dark Knight could lead to Batman fatigue… How many Batman’s does it take to change a lightbulb? No I’m not the Riddler, before you ask. So in case you’re behind the times, there is a new Batman film in the works. Production was well underway before being […]

Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman gets a purrfect 1:3 scale collectible statue

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Prime 1 Studio and Blitzway have revealed promotional images for the third scale Museum Masterline Catwoman statue which is based on the appearance of Michelle Pfeiffer as the villain in Tim Burton’s 1992 sequel Batman Returns. The DC collectible is available to pre-order now via Sideshow, priced at $1,395; check out the official promotional images […]

Comic Book Preview – Detective Comics 2022 Annual #1

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DC Comics takes us back to 18th Century Gotham City this coming week with the release of Detective Comics 2022 Annual #1, and we have the official preview for you below… As a werewolf, Gael has lived through many generations, and so he has visited Gotham land before…hundreds of years ago. Take a trip back […]

Comic Book Preview – Batgirls 2022 Annual #1

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DC Comics releases Batgirls 2022 Annual #1 next week, and you can check out the official preview of the issue below… It’s a freaky Friday when the Batgirls wake up inside each other’s bodies! That can’t be possible, right? It’s only stuff you see in the movies? Except Oracle has seen this happen before and […]

Comic Book Preview – Batman: Fortress #7

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DC Comics releases Batman: Fortress #7 this Tuesday, and you can check out the official preview below… Batman and his team of unlikely allies have penetrated the defenses of the Fortress of Solitude and uncovered the shocking answer that has haunted the Dark Knight from the very beginning-where is Superman? You will not be prepared […]