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  On September 3 rd it was reported that Robert Pattinson had tested positive for Covid-19 and was beginning to self-isolate. This came within the first week that filming for The Batman was allowed to restart since the Coronavirus pandemic shutdown everything earlier this year. A still from The Batman teaser trailer  Despite all these bumps in the road, Pattinson is still set to be the 10 th actor to play the Caped Crusader, but will he be the last? Batman has made appearances on our screens since 1943 via a range of actors, many of whom only got to play Bruce Wayne once before departing from the franchise. The actor at the forefront isn’t the only aspect of the DC comic that has changed, but also the directors, aspects of Batman’s origin story and the actor behind the villains, including Batman’s most well-known opponent the Joker. Most recently, Joaquin Phoenix played the criminal mastermind in Joker (2019), to critical acclaim. Within that version though, it is su...

‘What are you some sort of cartoon or something’ Scorpion Never have I been so upset to have missed a cinema release of a film than I have after seeing the rave reviews and striking animation for Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse. Spider-Man, in my opinion, has always been best presented in cartoon form, from the original comic books to the now cancelled TV series of The Ultimate Spider-Man. In the latest cartoon instalment, after getting bitten by radioactive spider, awkward teenager Miles Morales ends up in the middle of a battle between Spider-Man and Kingpin which ends in Spider-Man’s death. In Miles’ efforts to undo the damage that Kingpin has done he discovers that he isn’t the only Spider-Man left. The film follows a formulaic structure as each different Spider-Man has pretty much the same origin story, but this still is entertaining to watch and see the slight differences in their stories. All of them use their different experiences to help Miles understand with h...