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Batman

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) movie review: winged infamy

Tue, Feb 24, 2015
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It’s all a bit satirical. Or maybe not. Look, over there, Shakespeare in a superhero cape!

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The Lego Movie review: take the brick pill

Wed, Feb 12, 2014
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You’ve seen this all before — it’s Toy Story meets The Matrix — just not done in Legos.

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Cinema du Sanity: the Ben Affleck-is-Batman issue

Wed, Aug 28, 2013
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He’s Batman: fan shock as handsome square-jawed actor cast as iconic superhero. Also: Ben Affleck could not possibly care less what you think of him.

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Runner Runner trailer: Ben Affleck can *too* do psychopath

Mon, Aug 26, 2013
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Maybe the rebooted Dark Knight will have a pool of crocodiles at stately Wayne manor.

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me on BBC Radio 4 talking about Zack Snyder’s Superman + Batman movie

Tue, Jul 23, 2013
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If you weren’t following me on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, you may have missed my last-minute notices about my appearance on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning. But you can listen online now.

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why is everyone so excited about the Batman/Superman news coming out of Comic-Con?

Sat, Jul 20, 2013
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I Am Legend foresaw way back in 2007 that this would be happening…

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English school summer fete photo of the day: Buzz and Batman

Mon, Jul 15, 2013
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I guess Gotham City and the universe were fending for themselves that day.

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today was one of my weirdest days ever

Sat, Apr 20, 2013
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Woke to the news of the overnight craziness in Boston, was glued to Twitter and the Web and BBC News all day. Because I couldn’t not.

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question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?

Wed, Oct 10, 2012
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Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.

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the UK now has its own Jerry Sandusky (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Oct 03, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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