A look back at 2012 in the cinema

2012 has been a massive year for cinema. Bond struck back with Skyfall, The Hunger Games began, Spider-man did it all over again and The Cabin In The Woods pretty much reinvented everything we know about horror. Prometheus both amazed and appalled audiences, The Hobbit was either too long or not long enough and nobody even knew John Carter happened. The Avengers did 'comic book movie' better than ever before and Batman finished his run. It's been epic - so here's the best and the worst of the lot of it...!

New 'Man of Steel' poster reveals Superman's dark side

A brand new poster has been released for the next Superman movie, 'Man of Steel', due for release in the UK 14th June next year. It looks as though this new adventure will follow in the footsteps of The Dark Knight Rises and delve deeper into the 'darker side' of the character, as he's seen being escorted from his local Aldi after having been spotted using his ability to move faster than the speed of light to sneak past the tills without paying for his groceries.

Review: M's the Bond girl in 'Skyfall'

James Bond is back, showing The Bourne Legacy how a motorbike chase should be done and, arguably, better than ever. Skyfall is definitely a Bondgasm - it's 'classic Bond meets new Bond' and misery guts Daniel Craig seems to have a lot more fun as 007 in his third outing than in any of his others. With M by his side, he embarks on a surprisingly personal and visually jizz-worthy adventure set mostly right here in the UK. Get set for shots of Big Ben, tube crashes and an awful lot of the word 'bloody'.

Podcast #5 - Jeremy Kyle, Dexter & Batman

Ready for another podcast? Roo & Will take to the mic a fifth time to talk about appearing on Trisha, how she compares to Jeremy Kyle and how Bane & Batman might sound if they were to sit down and have a chat about such things. Christmas is also discussed, so are aunties with wooden puzzles, Dexter, Saw and Goodnight Mr Tom! Liven up a journey to work by downloading podcast number five, or by subscribing via iTunes on HCTV's Podomatic page.

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Review: The Dark Knight Raises... the volume!

 Warning: "Holy spoiler-alert, Batman!" 

As a teary-eyed farewell to a beloved film franchise (until the inevitable reboot) critics are flashing their five stars at Batman, in much the same way they did with Harry Potter's final adventure. This is not a five star film (and neither was the final Harry Potter). It's being said, however, that The Dark Knight Rises is not only a brilliant Batman movie, but one of the best movies ever made. It's a good film, yes, but it's also absurdly loud, ridiculously moody and buried so far up its own arse it thinks it's back in the bat cave.

DC's Justice League movie set to be a marvellous mess?

You'd never catch Marvel making such a mess of things! Let's just ignore how shit Captain America was and take a look at where we stand in DC-land at the moment: Batman is currently the darkest franchise at the movies. It's so dark in fact, that if it were to get one shade darker it would collapse in on itself and form a black hole, instantly destroying the entire galaxy. Whereas The Green Lantern is cheerful, bright green and completely ridiculous. Superman is on about his 15th reboot and Wonder Woman didn't even land her own TV series. There is literally naff all that's exciting about Aquaman, along with a whole array of other DC characters nobody's ever even heard of. Bringing this batch of mismatch characters together for a 'Justice League' movie wouldn't work right now - which means, everyone will have to get rebooted again beforehand. How many reboots would a reboot reboot if a reboot could reboot reboots?