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The Dark Knight Returns
A grim and gritty updating of Batman for the late ‘80s that put the dark back into the Dark Knight, while pushing out any sense of chivalry. An aged Bruce Wayne (55! Soooo old), realises that Gotham City has grown worse since Batman retired...
I hate being on TV
The early 2000s weren’t all sparkles and rainbows (the clothes were awful, for one thing); but there was a sense that — to adapt the New Labour anthem — things could get better. On TV, as observed recently, this mood translated into a glut...
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Elevator pitch
When American radio operator June (Kim Hunter) gets a message from Lancaster pilot Peter Carter (David Niven) , who is about to jump from his flaming bomber without a parachute, she fully expects him to die. Miraculously h...
Metropolitan Mixtape: May 2026
Absolute Wonder Woman (2024)
Thanks to an episode of the splendid Imaginary Worlds podcast, I have been checking out the Absolute line of comics from DC. Every generation remakes and reimagines classic superheroes in its own image, tryin...
West End girls and East End boys
Midway through The Gold (BBC, 2023), Neil Forsyth’s series about the 1983 Brinks Mat robbery, there’s a truly great parable about British class. Terrifying underworld fixer Gordon Parry (Sean Harris) is talking to the corrupt solicitor Edwi...
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