This new 10-part series plunges into a 1940s-inspired world of tough guys, trenchcoats and Tommy guns. It’s a highly satisfying, bat-to-basics take on the hero
July 2024
The seven best shows to stream this week
Women in Blue to Celebrity Send Off: the seven best shows to stream this week
The warm, likable tale of Mexican women joining the police to catch a serial killer, plus Shaun Ryder asks Bez to plan his funeral – with predictably eccentric results
May 2024
‘The daddy of them all’: readers on their favourite movie franchises
After Guardian writers picked their top big screen franchises of all time, from Alien to Toy Story, now you have had your say
April 2024
It Came from Outer Space star Barbara Rush dies aged 97
Best known for her work in 1950s sci-fi, the actor also took supporting roles in films including Bigger Than Life and Magnificent Obsession
March 2024
Week in geek
Can a super-grungy The Batman sequel take the DC universe somewhere even darker?
Ranked
Is Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan’s finest film? All the director’s movies – ranked!
July 2023
Cillian Murphy: enigmatic, intense … and now he plays a real blinder in Oppenheimer
Having nailed it as a Batman baddie and a Brummie gangster, the actor is tipped for an Oscar for his raging turn in Oppenheimer
June 2023
The Flash review – Ezra Miller’s doppelganger-superhero is a gurning, smirking mess
Some entertaining moments can’t hide the fact that this latest product of the DC Comics universe doesn’t exactly fly past
March 2023
Batmobiles, Bugs Bunny and James Dean’s jeans: a day inside the Warner Bros top-secret archive
To celebrate 100 years, the studio is letting reporters into a protected vault of movie treasures. Just don’t try and find it on Google maps
February 2023
Week in geek
James Gunn’s plans for DC are brave, bold and bereft of Batfleck – apparently
Can the film-maker revolutionise DC with a slate of five movies, with new and old actors, that will interconnect superhero stories?
October 2022
Gotham Knights review – a promising spin-off that wilts in Batman’s shadow
The latest DC adaptation struggles to craft something spectacular from its ensemble cast and role-playing action
Gotham Knights, the video game that kills off Batman
How do you make a Batman game without the man himself? Warner Bros Games in Montreal is giving it a shot with an open-world multiplayer game that sees a new guard of four heroes take his place
Batgirl axed, The Flash floundering – can Black Adam turn things round for DC’s troubled superheroes?
Any company with characters like Batman and Wonder Woman should be laughing all the way to the bank. So why are DC and its owner Warner Bros struggling with so many projects?
Steve Bell on Tory candidates and the axing of Batgirl — cartoon
The previously announced Batgirl film starring In the Heights actor Leslie Grace, Michael Keaton and Brendan Fraser will not be released at all, Warner Bros Discovery has unexpectedly announced
Batgirl directors respond to surprise axing of film: ‘We still can’t believe it’
Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have released a statement to express shock and sadness over the decision for their already shot film to be killed
Tax concerns axed Batgirl, but studios will suffer if they become too cynical
Peter Bradshaw
3D mermaids, CobraGator and Louis CK: the never-released films Batgirl will join in Hollywood’s vault of shame
‘Irredeemable’ Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages
