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?

Review: Spider-man's almost amazing reboot

 Warning: A significant amount of spidey-spoilers included* 

It's quite brave for a film to label itself and its main character as 'amazing', but 'The Amazing Spider-man' did and - is it as amazing as it thinks it is? No. It isn't. A more appropriate title would have been 'The Pretty Enjoyable But Nothing Special Spider-man'. In many ways, it's miles better than the original version, but there are also plenty of moments that don't sit right. It's stuck between living up to its 'amazing' title and being a film you'd simply rather watch when it's shown on ITV in about 10 years time, split in two halves by the 10 o'clock news.

Zap! Reviews - The Cabin In The Woods & The Avengers

Be sure to check out this brand new 'Zap! Review', which sees Roo deliver his opinion on both The Avengers and The Cabin In The Woods at maximum speed.

What's so shocking about the fact that both these movies aren't just good, but really good, is that they are essentially old, tired ideas. Superhero movies have been done to death and The Cabin In The Woods had the potential of being yet another Final Destination or Scream-type kill-fest where the whole point is to just watch adolescents get picked off one by one, some with their tits out while it happens.