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“That’s life”— Joker
Batman’s debut in Detective Comics #27 in 1939 was a massive hit, so much so that National Periodical Publications gave him his own title in 1940, though he also continued to star in Detective Comics....
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No Jokers, No Masters: Birds of Prey and the Emancipation of Harley Quinn’s...
I didn’t expect to love Birds of Prey so much, but I’m currently sitting on my bed in a gold lamé jumpsuit, eating a breakfast sandwich and pretending my cat is a hyena, so here we are. On the surface,...
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The Batman’s New Batmobile Is Giving Fans Mad Max Vibes
A new Batman movie means a new Batsuit and a new Batmobile (not to mention, of course, a new Batman), and director Matt Reeves has been feeding fans bite-size sneak peeks at his redesigns on Twitter....
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About Time: Fashion and the Space-Time Continuum, an SFF Met Gala
Every year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a large fundraising gala in partnership with Vogue to celebrate the opening of the Costume Institute’s themed exhibit. Dubbed “fashion’s biggest night...
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Michael Keaton Will Reportedly Return as Batman for The Flash, Further Tying...
Michael Keaton is reportedly in “early talks with Warner Bros. to reprise his role as Batman in the upcoming DC film The Flash, reports The Wrap. The long-gestating film is set to premiere in the...
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Matt Reeves’ The Batman Is Getting A TV Spinoff
Warner Bros. is looking to expand on the Matt Reeve’s upcoming film The Batman. It was announced today that it’s greenlit a TV series set in Gotham City’s police department from Reeves, Boardwalk...
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Robert Pattinson Tried to Hide His Batman Audition From Christopher Nolan...
What do you do if you’re trying to hide your audition for the world’s most high-profile superhero role from a director who just so happens to have directed three whole movies about said superhero?...
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Ben Affleck to Appear as Batman in DC’s The Flash
Ezra Miller’s The Flash is getting another Batman. Deadline reports that Ben Affleck will reprise his version of the character in the 2022 film in a cameo appearance, along with Michael Keaton, who’s...
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Why Batman Is a Terrible Superhero (Or, Why Our Present Social Crises Demand...
I’m a huge fan of the Dark Knight, so I was ready to throw hands a few weeks ago when someone told me they considered Batman to be a terrible superhero. “You can’t just say that. You have to give...
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A Definitive Ranking of All the Superhero Origin Movies I Could Remember
We’re about two decades into an era that history will remember as That Time Humans Demanded At Least Four Comic Book Movies A Year. (I’m guessing this era will be remembered for other things, too, but...
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Batman and Wonder Woman Are Headed to Serial Box
Serial Box has added two more superheroes to its stable of characters, Variety reports: the serialized-story publisher will release Wonder Woman: Heartless and Batman: The Blind Cut next spring. Wonder...
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That Random Guy In the Batman Costume Could Be Michael Keaton
If your first Batman is always your one true Batman, Michael Keaton is that Bat for a lot of us. On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Keaton neither confirmed nor denied that he might appear in the...
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Batman Broods Darkly in the Latest Teaser for Zack Snyder’s Justice League
The Bat has some stuff on his mind. “It’s time to make this right,” he says in the latest teaser for Zack Snyder’s Justice League, the four-hour director’s cut that arrives on HBO Max later this month....
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Bruce Timm Is Making an Animated Batman Series for HBO Max
WarnerMedia is expanding its slate of animated DC projects with two new shows for HBO Max: a Batman series from Bruce Timm called Caped Crusader, and a Superman show called My Adventures With Superman,...
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Slow Music, Slow Motion, Slow Movie — Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Starting in August 2017, Keith R.A. DeCandido took a weekly look at every live-action movie based on a superhero comic in the weekly “4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch.” He...
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Okay, Do Superheroes Bone or Not?
If you’ve been avoiding the discourse over on superhero Twitter lately (which I understand and applaud you for), you may have missed the latest dust up around a cut scene in the upcoming third season...
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Titans Season 3 Trailer Really Wants Jason Todd to See Red
The latest trailer for Titans promises to give DC Fans the very first live-action version of Jason Todd’s Red Hood: Based on the not-so-subtle hints shown in the teaser, he’ll become the violent...
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Celebrating a Century of Science Fiction in Animation
Science fiction conceits and the cartoonist’s will to anarchic fancy accommodate each other quite well, and over the one-hundred-odd years that the two mediums have been playing together, they have...
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An Updated Ranking of All the Superhero Origin Movies I Could Remember
We’re about two decades into an era that history will remember as That Time Humans Demanded At Least Four Comic Book Movies A Year. (I’m guessing this era will be remembered for other things, too, but...
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Michael Keaton Bowed Out of Batman Forever Because Schumacher Wanted a More...
Michael Keaton was the first to play Batman in cinematic form in Tim Burton’s 1989 film and reprised the role once more in Burton’s 1992’s Batman Returns. The movies were so popular that a third movie,...
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