• The Many (Many) Reasons To Be Excited for ‘Crisis on Infinite Earths’

    Every year, the group of superhero shows airing on the CW (or Sky 1 in the UK) – Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, and now Batwoman, have their annual crossover. This year they’re adapting Crisis on Infinite Earths – the most famous event in DC comics history....
  • Nottingham students running for Nightline

    On Sunday 19th November 2017, over 100 students participated in a 5k Superhero Fun Run organised by Nightline at the University of Nottingham. The money raised in the fund-raising event will be going towards the support and training of new volunteers. These volunteers are known as Nightliners and they...
  • Trailer Watch – Justice League

    Since the overly harsh critical slaughtering of Batman V Superman, Warner Bros. decided to crank it up to 10 with this year’s San Diego Comic Con Justice League footage. The White Stripes bring in Batman and Aquaman in a macho-man face off of drastically unfair proportions. This footage is...
  • Trailer Watch – Suicide Squad

    What a week for DC. With the first full trailer for 2016’s Batman v Superman dropping only days ago, we now have our first official look at the Suicide Squad, much to Marvel’s displeasure. Instead of a film based around heroes, Suicide Squad looks to bid ‘bad vs evil’ in...
  • Trailer Watch – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

    Ahead of its scheduled Monday release date, the hotly anticipated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice trailer has been officially released by Warner Bros., following an online leak Friday that spread like wildfire. One of the most noticeable aspects of this teaser is the riddance of Batman’s growling vocalisations...
  • TV Review – The Flash, Season 1, Episode 2

    Crime fighting, comedy, cringe and a bit of The Matrix; in this second episode of CW’s The Flash, the fastest man alive (in an episode titled identically so) battles a metahuman who can duplicate himself and is exacting revenge on his former employer. The basis of this week’s instalment to...
  • TV Review – The Flash, Season 1, Episode 1

    Take a second to imagine if CSI mated with Smallville, and then sprinkle on some nurtured Arrow goodness; that child would be The Flash. This is the CW’s latest superhero instalment following two successful seasons of Arrow, also based on a DC character. The Flash’s protagonist is Barry Allen (Grant Gustin), a crime...