Theme Week

The Adventures of Batman and Robin

I’ve played my share of Batman video games and by far my favorite remains The Adventures of Batman and Robin for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.  Capturing the look of the Batman the Animated Series the game, with high quality graphics, and music from specific episodes, made you feel like you are playing the show itself, and was a blast to play.  Take a look inside as we review the game!

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Batman Goes to Camp

  • Title: Batman Forever / Batman & Robin
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After Tim Burton‘s Batman Returns didn’t live up to the box office expectations of its studio, Warner Bros, the two parties peacefully parted ways and Joel Schumacher was brought in to reinvent the series to skew more towards kids than adults (Wikipedia says it, so it must be true!).  Let me say, as someone who was seven- and nine-years old when these movies came out, Schumacer did his job and he did it well.  These were my favorite movies at that young, and now evidentally very very stupid age.  These movies are full of horrendous dialogue and terrible plotting.  To be sure, these are the kinds of movies you can only totally appreciate before you are learning at a fifth-grade level.

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RF’s Top 10 Second-Tier Bat-Villains

Sure you know the Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, and the Riddler.  You probably know the Scarecrow and Two-Face, too.  But how many of Batman’s other villains do you know?  Today we ignore the top-tier, best-known, Bat-villains and give you the best of the rest.  There’s a few you might expect (Mr. Freeze, Ra’s al Ghul), but I’ve thrown in a couple of surprises as well.  Check out the full list inside.

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Suggested Further Reading (Dark Knight Edition)

With The Dark Knight hitting theaters this Friday this seemed like a good chance to give you Bat-fans a few selections of graphic novels which tie-into the characters and themes of the new movie.  For the first movie we gave you stories of Batman’s orgin, tales of Ra’s al Ghul and the Scarecrow.  This time we focus on the Joker and the origins of Two-Face.

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