DC’s Elseworlds Imprint is Making a Multiversal Comeback
Image: DC Comics In the same way that Marvel Comics has imprints for stories featuring alternate universe versions of its characters, DC Comics has that in Elseworlds. But that line…
All the Batman animated shows, ranked
Next year, DC will celebrate the 85th anniversary of Bill Finger and Bob Kane’s most famous creation, Batman. That’s closing in fast on nine decades, and yet in all of…
10 cool things to know about Ben Affleck’s canceled Batman movie
Before director Matt Reeves introduced a new vision of Gotham City in The Batman, Ben Affleck was set to helm the film based on a script he wrote centered around…
The 10 best opening scenes in superhero movies, ranked
Superhero movies often excel at making a grand entrance, hooking the audience within the first few minutes. They do so with some spectacular action scenes or just some thrilling or…
Who is the best Joker ever? We rank all the actors who have played Batman’s No. 1 enemy
Eighty years after he debuted in Batman No. 1, the Joker remains one of the most iconic villains in popular culture. The Clown Prince of Crime has long tormented Batman…
The 10 most popular movies of 2022
2022 was a year full of memorable movies like Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water. These 10 films were the most popular with U.S. audiences. Fumali – Services…
Why The Batman universe doesn’t need the DCEU
Amid course correcting the DCEU and the scorched-earth approach from the Warner Bros. Discovery merger, The Batman can prove it can stand wholly on its own.
Batman and the city: depictions of Gotham from The Dark Knight to Gotham Knights
Everyone knows Gotham City is Batman’s HQ, but few know how the iconic location has changed in movies like The Dark Knight to video games like Gotham Knights.
Forget The Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is still the best Batman movie adaptation
The Batman set up an exciting crime-noir adaptation of the Dark Knight in live-action, but Mask of the Phantasm still stands as the character’s best adaptation.
Clayface and Man-Bat should get the ‘Joker’ movie treatment
DC had a surprise hit on its hands with Joker, and that sort of isolated storytelling could benefit Batman’s more fantastical rogues like Man-Bat and Clayface.