By Greg Evans
Between them Batman & Robin, Spawn and Steel pointed the way forward for the genre.
“They said the age of heroes would never come again…” Well, her comes the trailer for yet another superhero movie.
With great jokes and a subversive moral core, this animated comedy manages to have its brick-based cake and eat it.
By Greg Evans
Way before the Dark Knight got serious, he was thwacking bad guys and dismantling bombs in a slapstick ’60s family film.
Tim Burton’s 1992 sequel is a film of utter chaos – what’s more holiday appropriate than that?
Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One looks to be Marvel’s most progressive character yet.
By Greg Evans
How an animated TV movie from 1993 cut to the dark heart of DC’s iconic antihero.
By Anton Bitel
In Christopher Nolan’s urban epic, Batman takes on The Joker… or should that be, George W Bush takes on Osama Bin Laden?
By Mark Asch
Rejecting the physics of an ever-expanding comic book universe, Bryan Singer’s Superman reboot has passed the test of time.
Twelve writers pin their colours to the tentpole in our survey of the best summer movies of the modern era.
By David Lyons
The Hollywood hype machine is bigger than ever, but why are studios so keen to give away key plot details?
By David Lyons
The marketing campaigns for both Batman V Superman and Zootropolis obscured their female characters.
Universe building is now every studio’s top priority, but are Marvel and DC being shortsighted in their forward thinking?
Where do trailers end and movies begin? Zack Snyder has the answer with his fever-pitched latest.
He reinvented the comic-book movie. He filmed the unfilmable. So why doesn’t the Batman V Superman director get respect?
By Tom Bond
It’s become increasingly rare for films like Batman V Supeman: Dawn of Justice to live up to expectations.
By Ceri Thomas
The story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster is the most inspiring and depressing in the history of the comic-book industry.