Our 20 Favourite Batman Movie Moments

With The Dark Knight Rises getting every bit of attention (which it deserves!) we thought we'd compile a list of our favourite Batman movie moments (in no particular order) and although there are tons more, these are the ones that made the cut.

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Ok, we've lied, there's a little over 20 Moments on the list, but hey, you can never have enough Batman!

"Swear to me" - Batman Begins

This is probably one of the most quoted scenes in Batman movie history. The moment we really see how terrifying Bruce wants Batman to be. The gritty roar, and the symbolic gesture that Batman may appear to be supernatural has Flass in a pant wetting state.

"I'm Batman" - Batman

Whilst many see Christian Bale as the ultimate Batman (us included), many folk see Michael Keaton as the main man who wore the cape and cowl. This scene in particular showed a darker tone to Batman since the only movies previously were that of the campy Adam West mould. This saw director Tim Burton bringing Batman to his darker roots.

"I'm Batman" - Batman Begins

Think Keaton was intimidating in the scene above? Well, we think Bale did it better. Batman has tracked down where the drugs are being smuggled, resulting in him roughing up Carmine Falcone and his goons, where he tells Falcone just who he is...

[Thanks to Marc D for choosing this one!]

Bruce showing he's human - Batman: Mask of The Phantasm

There's a massive following of people who believe Mask of The Phantasm to be the most faithful adaptation of Batman outside of the comics, and this scene showed that Bruce Wayne isn't always the brooding billionare/beefed up vigalantee. Bruce has recently begun dating Andrea Beaumont, and has become infatuated with her. He finally realizes that having her in his life creates a conflict; He cannot risk his life every night if there is someone who loves him waiting at home.

He confronts his parents grave, and pleads with them for the opportunity to try living a happy life with her, instead of becoming Batman and fulfilling the promise he made to them.

Joker's Pencil Trick Scene - The Dark Knight

I remember hearing about the late Heath Ledger playing the psychotic clown, and as many believed, was a bad move by Nolan. How wrong we were. Ledger took the Joker to a new high, blowing everyone away with his performance. This scene showed us the clown prince of crime was both deranged, and utterly hilarious at the same time

Catwoman "Meow" - Batman Returns

Whilst we all (yes, all, you shouldn't be reading this otherwise) now have the utterly delightful image of Anne Hathaway donning the leathers and straddling the Batpod, long before that, Michelle Pfeiffer played the role of Catwoman. And this scene had the sexual prowess and danger of the femme fatal.

Bank Robbery Scene - The Dark Knight

Quite possibly the most well produced and thought out opening scene in movie history, the bank robbery scene from The Dark Knight was so well orchestrated, that it automatically made you glad Nolan had taken the Batman under his own wing. It also holds some brilliant quotes for Ledger's Joker, including the definitive "What doesn't kill you, only makes you; stranger"

Robin's Death - Batman: Under The Red Hood

One of my favourite Batman movies, Under The Red Hood, a gritty animation that took it's opening scene straight from the comic A Death in the Family, and see's a young Jason Todd savagely beaten by the Joker, before he kills him. Even though most comic readers hated Jason Todd, no one can argue at how gut wrenching the scene is.

Unmasking Bane - The Dark Knight Rises

As we hear the voice of the masked prisoner, we hear for the first time Tom Hardy's Bane. An unusual mix of English, Caribbean heritage, and Bartley Gorman, bringing a sordid style of class and etiquette to an otherwise massive brute. Then the mask is revealed (only to show another mask), and we are treated to the first sigh of Bane. His piercing eyes already striking terror into your soul before he's even stood up.

Bruce's "does it come in black?" line - Batman Begins

As Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman) shows Bruce Wayne some high tech weaponry for, erm, spelunking, Bruce notices a rather large "tank like" vehicle. After taking the beast of a car for a spin, he remarks "does it come in black?" a line which brought humour to the gritty Nolan world. The line was later delivered by Fox in The Dark Knight Rises when he reveals to Bruce the Bat, telling him "...and yes, it comes in black". Brilliant.

"You can call me, Joker" - Batman

Grissom (Jack Palance) finds that his old henchman Jack (Jack Nicholson) has reinvented himself after his mob employer set him up and left him to die. A more 'cartoon' like approach to the Joker than Nolan and Ledgers, yet still retaining a homicidal streak.

Blood Bank Scene - The Batman vs. Dracula

In the animated movie Batman vs. Dracular, we see the Gotham's Dark Knight take on the original Bat-Man, and in doing so, see's the Joker transformed into a vampire. From what is essentially a children's animation, this scene is quite scary all things considering, but is a greatly animated and unnerving psyche into the Jokers new un-dead phase.

Joker Blows up a Hospital - The Dark Knight

Yet another entry from the late Heath Ledger's Joker, as he takes to the streets of Gotham in, well, style. Dressed as a nurse, the Joker causes mass panic as he threatens to blow up a hospital, unless Coleman Reese (Joshua Harto) is killed.

Batman Nearly Breaks His Rule - Batman Beyond: Rebirth

Although not technicaly a movie, Batman Beyond: Rebirth was released as a full animated feature before becoming a series (Rebirth actually being episode 1). Set in 2019, we find a new high-tech Batman in a new suit, but an old, ageing Bruce Wayne underneath fighting some goons. During the battle, Batman suffers a heart attack, and in that moment of desperation, he's forced to pick up a gun in order to defend his life and we're shown how Bruce betrays everything Batman stood for.

Joker's "Can I have a glass of water?" - Batman: Under The Red Hood

Even though I prefer Mark Hamill as the voice of the Joker, John DiMaggio does a stellar job in Under The Red Hood, bringing an excessively violent clown prince to the tables, whilst keeping the trademark psychopathic humour, as seen in this clip.

Bane Breaking Batman's Spine - The Dark Knight Rises

In Batman's first encounter with Bane, the Dark Knight suffers a brutal beating, and in a throwback to the story arc Knightfall, Bane breaks Batman's spine, as a horrified and treacherous Catwoman looks on.

"So that's what that feels like" - The Dark Knight Rises

In one of the funniest parts of the film, up high on a Gotham rooftop with Selina Kyle discussing tactics, Batman's attention momentarily shifts to The Bat behind him, before turning back to find Catwoman has vanished, prompting the line "...So that's what that feels like." Genius stuff.

"Where Are You?" - Batman Begins

As Falcone's goons carry on their drug smuggling, Batman intervenes, picking them out one by one, in the darkness, preying on them, striking fear into their good-for-nothing hearts. Then, there's only one goon left. Terrified, shooting his gun blindly into the darkness - "Where are you?" he screams, as Batman appears upside down behind him "Here". Brilliant.

The Joker's home video - The Dark Knight

A truly terrifying scene from The Dark Knight, see's the Joker's 'home movie' making the news, as he tortures a Batman imposter. "Do you think Batman's made Gotham a better place? Hmm?" he questions to silence before roaring "LOOK AT ME!" in a horrifying voice. It's unnerving as you really don't expect it, and added to the fact the scene is almost silent, it really takes your breath.

Scarecrows Own Medicine - Batman Begins

Dr Crane gets a taste of his own medicine and sees Batman in a whole new light after the Dark Knight sprays him with his own fear toxin. As if Christian Bales gritty Batman wasn't scary enough, Scarecrow sees Batman as a grotesque, snarling beast.

Batman Interrogates The Joker - The Dark Knight

In a fascinating clash of opposing ideologies; justice versus chaos, Batman interrogates the Joker as to the whereabouts of Bruce's squeeze Rachel and Gotham's "white knight" DA Harvey Dent. With no gadgets or theatrical swooping, it's just Batman and the Joker in a room, but after beating him around the room, Batman soon realises one thing - how can you threaten an enemy that doesn't want to kill you but wants you to break your one rule and kill him?

The Final Scene - The Dark Knight Rises

The Dark Knight Rises' ending is incredibly emotional, as Batman carrys the bomb away with the Bat, only for it to explode. We then see Alfred, Lucius, Gordon and Blake at Bruce Waynes grave, sending off the Batman.

However.

Lucius discovers that Bruce managed to programme the autopilot on the aircraft six months ago, and Gordon later finds that the Bat-Signal has been repaired. We then see Alfred in Italy, where he see's Bruce and Selina alive together at a café. Meanwhile, Bake follows coordinates that Bruce left him, leading him to the Batcave. It's a brilliant ending to a perfect trilogy.

And Then There's This...

Nothing - Batman & Robin

It shouldn't be on here, it's so bad. George Clooney's caped crusader made Adam West's look like the Punisher.
But, if you need a laugh, check out the video below. Just don't ever speak of it again

The Dark Knight Rises Review

It's taken what seems like forever, but the The Dark Knight Rises, the final installment in Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga, is finally here. Does it amount to all the hype? Is it the great ending we all hoped for in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy? Read On!

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It's been eight years since Harvey Dent died, and Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) hasn't wore the cape and cowl ever since he took the fall for Harvey "Two-Face" Dent's crimes. Here, Nolan shows us an older Bruce, who has retreated into Wayne Manor, now a recluse who needs a cane due to all his injuries sustained as Batman.

However, two people will draw Batman out of his retirement: cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) and Bane (Tom Hardy), a masked terrorist with a brutal plan for punishing Gotham City, and anyone who dares to stand in his way.
The lessons Bruce must learn in TDKR mirror those he faced in Begins (“Why do we fall, Bruce?”), but he’s not a vengeful young man anymore, he’s approaching middle age and, as Alfred (Michael Caine) reminds him, he isn’t living his life. He’s simply alive. He’s not moving on from the pain he’s experienced.

Alfred reminds him how lovely Wayne Enterprises board member Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) is, hoping that romance and perhaps even a family of his own someday could help him become the man his parents would have wanted rather than the terrifying symbol that his scared the crooks of Gotham.

Bale gives his finest performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman in TDKR, and it's a honour to watch him bring to life the most fully-formed, multifarious screen superhero to date. Returning to help both Bruce Wayne and Batman are Alfred (Michael Caine) and Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), with Alfred being a particularly sincere and poignant fixture this time out, with some truly heartbreaking scenes.

Again playing a somewhat understated performance as the character, Gary Oldman’s Gordon is a man reaching the up-most breaking points of living with the secret truth about Harvey
Dent, but he finds in Gordon-Levitt’s Officer Blake the sort of hopeful and honest cop he probably used to be himself. As Blake, Gordon-Levitt is carefully crafted and well played, but not everyone may buy his inconsistent East Coast accent and tough, streetwise manner, but Levvit does a good job overall, with Nolan delivering an interesting twist surrounding Blake.

The first question many will ask, is if TDKR is better than Batman Begins and/or The Dark Knight. Truthfully, it's a mixture of both. Those of you who prefer Batman Begins to TDK will find much to love about TDKR, whilst, even though Tom Hardy is terrific as Bane (more to follow), Bane as a character just isn't as interesting as The Joker, so those who loved TDK will feel a little disheartened. But that's not to say you wont love TDKR, because no matter what; you will.

As stated above, Hardy's interpretation as Bane is phenomenal. As a figure, he's utterly menacing. A massive brute of a man, Hardy gained 30 pounds (14 kg) for the role, increasing his weight to 198 pounds (90 kg), and it shows. Bane is known for his sheer size, and Hardy has done the character proud. But it's not just the size of his muscles that impress, forced to wear the mask throughout the film, Hardy is only really able to act with his eyes and hands, and he does a stellar job. Piercing glares and anger shine through his eyes, whilst his arm movements, even ones as simple as clutching his coat whilst he talks act more than some actors do with their whole body. The voice he uses (which include a mixture of English, Caribbean heritage, and Bartley Gorman) is deliciously scary, whilst also bringing an element of sophistication to the character. Casting aside the obvious changes to the comic book version of Bane, this is a villain the Batman has never seen the likes of before. And it works.

Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway) is a welcome edition to the series, and Hathaway does a good job of mixing sly humor, the sexiness and the fighting prowess of the much loved comic character. Although neither Hardy or Hathaway give the same level of performance of that of the late Heath Ledger as the Joker in TDK, both characters are impressively portrayed in their own right.

For a nearly three-hour-long movie, The Dark Knight Rises clips along at a reasonable pace although sometimes it might have been nice for the film to pause long enough to let a few important dramatic moments have that extra beat to resonate.

The film does have several exciting action set-pieces, many of which utilize the new aerial vehicle The Bat, but none of which provoke the kind of jaw-dropping reaction that the truck flip did in The Dark Knight. Whilst the fight scenes between Batman and Bane are excellent, really showing the kind of foe Bane is to Batman; almost unstoppable.










Christopher Nolan and his team have delivered the grandest and most emotional chapter in their Batman saga with The Dark Knight Rises, and it is a fitting emotional and narrative conclusion to this particular interpretation of the legend of Batman, I just wish it wasn't ending.

• Release Date:
• US (wide): July 20, 2012
• Genre: Super-Hero,  Action, Adventure
• Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Production Company: Legendary Pictures
• Language: English

For more on Batman: The Dark Knight, KAPOW! this this link right here. 

Samsung Galaxy S3 Review

In the space of a couple of years Samsung has managed to propel its Galaxy range of smartphones from obscurity to almost the same level of fanatical devotion as the iPhone. The original Galaxy S became the biggest selling Android phone of all time, and the first phone to beat it in this respect was its successor the Galaxy S2. Now the third handset in the Galaxy S range looks set to smash records again.

It has already become the most pre-ordered gadget in history – beating any pre-order volumes set by the iPhone. Demand for the phone has been so high that Samsung has struggled to keep up supply levels. But is it worth all the hype, or is it just riding on the reputation of its predecessors?

The initial reaction a lot of people had to the Galaxy S3 was "it's ugly". There were reports that Samsung had specifically designed the S3 with the help of lawyers, after Apple had filed numerous lawsuits against Samsung over the look and feel of the Galaxy S2. Samsung of course denies this, claiming instead that the S3 has been "designed for humans", and "inspired by nature".

TouchWiz and Ice Cream Sandwich

This inspired by nature theme extends to the new TouchWiz UX Nature interface used by the S3. While bringing some new concepts to the TouchWiz UI, UX Nature is designed to make use of several new features added into Android Ice Cream Sandwich. While these little tweaks, such as being able to resize homescreen widgets, may seem rather minor, they have not been available on the Galaxy S2 and older Samsung phones that have recently been upgraded to ICS in the last few months.

Inspired by nature is not simply marketing speak – the new TouchWiz UX does feature natural colour schemes and wallpapers, fluid transitions and organic sounds, which all provide a rather natural feel. But aside from aesthetics, what are the major new benefits of ICS and the new TouchWiz? One of the most talked about, for obvious reasons, is S-Voice.

S-Voice

Apple has frequently accused Samsung of copying its ideas and with S-Voice you feel that perhaps they have a point – S-Voice is clearly meant to be competition to Siri. While Siri may not live up to expectations, or perform quite as well as it does in TV adverts, it was still the most sophisticated voice recognition system to hit the mass market when the iPhone 4S launched last year.

S-Voice is a natural language interface, and so is designed to understand everyday language rather than operating on a strict set of commands that the user must memorise. Like Siri, while S-Voice is fairly accurate it doesn't perform quite as well as advertised. S-Voice is still prone to misinterpreting commands, making it a fairly impressive feature but one that most people would not wish to rely on from day to day. S-Voice can be tied in to other features, such as Google Maps, and can be a handy way to navigate around, particularly while driving.

Display

The Galaxy S2 was considered to be pretty large when it was launched but now seems quite small compared to phones like the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy Note. The S3 is closer to the second two phones in terms of its size due to its large 4.8 inch Super AMOLED HD display. The phone is not as big as you might imagine when you hold it in your hands, but for many people it may simply be too large to comfortably use as a mobile phone.

The screen is exceptional though; there is no doubt about that. Super AMOLED displays have a level of brightness and vivid colours that are not enjoyed by standard LCD screens found on most devices, and it really makes a whole world of difference for video and other visual content. The phone has a 720 x 1280 resolution too, making it high definition, with a pixel density of about 306 ppi (iPhone 4S – 330 ppi). One drawback of AMOLED screens is that they can be harder to view in sunlight, although this seems to be less of a problem on the S3 than it was on the S2. Even though the S3 falls below Apple's "Retina" quality, it is pretty damned hard to spot individual pixels on the screen.

Camera

Cameras are perhaps one of the most important features on a smartphone for most people. The S3 has an 8 megapixel camera, just like the S2, which on the surface may make it sound like Samsung is not offering any improvement here. Megapixel count merely reflects the maximum resolution photographs that a digital camera can produce though, and 8 megapixels actually produces photos that would be considered too large for most everyday users. In other words, beyond 5 megapixels you need to look at other things to determine quality.

Rather than simply slapping on a 12 megapixel sensor and being done with it, Samsung has put a lot of effort into making the S3's camera more usable. The camera has zero shutter lag for starters, so actually get the photos you intended to. The camera will also take a burst of 8 photos so that you can pick out the best shot from a selection.

The S3 also features improved facial recognition. Many phones will claim to have "face detection", which simply means being able to identify something as a face, but the S3's face detection can actually identify individuals and automatically tag them in photographs. Social Tag, as it is known, will then provide the ability to message, call, or interact via social networks with individuals in each photograph by simply tapping on their face. With Buddy Share, it is much easier to share images with friends too.

Other Unique Features

Samsung developed eye tracking technology and this information was leaked prior to the launch of the S3. No one was quite sure how it would be implemented, with some suggesting the ability to scroll around web pages and documents by looking at them. Instead, this technology was implemented as Smart Stay. Smart Stay uses the S3's front camera to determine when you are actually looking at the device and when you are not, and can adjust the screen brightness accordingly to help save on battery life.

Speaking of battery life, we have found the S3 to perform extremely well here. Even with heavy usage while experimenting with the phone, the S3 managed to retain over half of its battery power over the course of a day. The S3 benefits from Android Ice Cream Sandwich and the new TouchWiz here, as both have introduced a number of tweaks to enhance battery performance.

Pop up Play is the ability to watch movies while doing other things. For example, you can continue to watch a video while typing out an email or message. Obviously this is one feature where having a larger screen is very helpful, because trying to do this on a 3.5 inch display would be a nightmare. Smartphones have for some time had the ability to play music while you quit out of the media player to do other things, but this is the first time that a phone allows you to do the same with video. We can see this becoming a fairly common feature over the next few months as entertainment becomes more and more important on peoples' phones.

The S3 also makes it pretty easy to share data with others. Ice Cream Sandwich introduced the NFC powered Android Beam, and Samsung has touched this up for the S3 as S-Beam. S-Beam is essentially the same thing as Android Beam – tap your phone against another NFC powered Android device and you can swap things like webpages, phone numbers and images. S-Beam does extend this to videos and music too, providing a bit more functionality than the standard Android feature on ICS.

Worth the Fuss?

There was a potential that the Galaxy S3 would just ride on the reputation of its predecessor and that it wouldn't offer much new or live up to expectations. Samsung has done a good job of taking the finer points of the Galaxy S2 and making them better while throwing a lot more into the mix too. Samsung could have just introduce a few incremental hardware upgrades – a faster processor, a higher megapixel camera and so on – but the Samsung Galaxy S3 demonstrates that Samsung finally understands what many Apple fans have been saying for some time now; everyday users don't care about how fast a processor is, or how much RAM a phone has, they care about what they can actually do with their phone. It turns out that with the Galaxy S3, what you can do is a lot more than you could with any other handset.

You can read a full review of the Samsung Galaxy S3 at Best Mobile Contracts, as well as finding a comparison of the cheapest contracts in the UK.

The Walking Dead: The Game: Episode 2: Starved for Help Review (Ps3)

The second of five downloadable episodes, Starved for Help picks up three months after the zombie apocalypse broke out in Episode 1 of The Walking Dead, still playing as protagonist Lee Everett, protecting Clementine, and dealing with a group of survivors assembled at a makeshift fortress that used to be a motel.



The Walking Dead: The Game is all about choice and consequence, and in Episode 2, we get to see just how our choices have panned out. In a "Previously, on the Walking Dead", we see all the choices we made from Episode 1 carried over to the next instalment. This is a game where you don't get a second chance to say/do something (without starting a new game). You have a limited time to to make a choice that will influence your friends and make new enemies.

Starved for Help opens with a truly horrific moment (if you choose to play it that way) and after the gut wrenching blood bath is over, you then have to make a moral decision: The group's nearly out of food, and when it's up to you to choose which few survivors get rations for the day, you have to figure out if you're playing favorites or focusing on the greater good of the group. If you're smart, you can figure out a way to make the majority of people happy (or even take some food yourself).

Episode 2 gives us, for the first time, the real chance to decide if Lee's going to be an upstanding person or a survivor willing to do anything to live another day. It's the first time a game has had me debating whose side I was on and turning my back on established relationships, genuinely moving me in some cases. I can't think of another game that had me establish a character I thought I knew and had a connection with, then have me re-thinking big decisions a few scenes later, even though I knew I couldn't change it.

When a new group of survivors from the St. John's Dairy Farm show up and invite your group to come over and trade gas for food, you're left with the decisions of obviously taking their offer, or the unknown of whether or not you can trust these random strangers. The group needs food, you're pretty much out, and with the world gone to hell, you're going to need all the supplies you can get to keep your group alive, but are these guys legit?

Whatever choice you make, Episode 2 will shock you to your very core.











The most shocking entry so far, Starved For Help is a brilliant new episode of the Walking Dead game, and also the most brutal.

• Published by: Telltale Games
• Developed by: Telltale Games
• Genre: Adventure
• Release Date:
  Europe: April 2012
• PEGI: 18
• Available On: Playstation 3, PC, Macintosh, iPad, Xbox 360

The Amazing Spider-Man Movie Review

Is the web-heads latest offering Amazing? Or does it swing aimlessly through (the CGI) New York? Read on!



10 years ago when Tobey Maguire donned the Spider-Man suit, critics raved over how the arachnid hero and as his love interest, Mary Jane (Kristen Dunst) were brought to life.

From L-R: Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, Kristen Dunst, Emma Stone

I actually watched the original film the other week, and although I loved it when it came out - it hasn't aged well. I didn't find Maguire convincing as Peter Parker, and don't even get me started on how that trilogy ended (we must never speak of the abomination that is Spider-Man 3).

So fast forward to the present, and we have a new Spider-Man/Peter Parker in the from of Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), and love interest Gwen Stacy played by Emma Stone (Easy A). After Sam Raimi's trilogy shattered box office reviews, earning a staggering $114 million in its first weekend alone, the reboot was always going to need to fill big shoes.

Directer Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer) brings us The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot that revisits Peter Parker's origin story, but this time we get to see Peter as a child, and for the first time (in a Spider-Man movie) his parents (played by Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz); who, after a break-in at their house, rush Peter over to his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May's (Sally Field) house for safekeeping.

This is where we see many will feel shortchanged. Sure, the story is there, and it's hard hitting having to see Uncle Ben shot by a thug that Peter could've easily stopped, but we've seen it all before. The only thing being new is the setting/location of how he gets shot.

I personally didn't want the reboot to totally start all over, and I know it may have seemed odd to start the new trilogy with Peter already as Spider-Man, but the whole "becoming Spider-Man" was very samey.

However.

If by some chance you'd never seen Maguires flick, then it's a solid story, with Garfield who's acting has an instinctive wisdom, bringing a great deal of emotion to the science whizz Peter Parker. I much prefer this carnation of Peter Parker/Spider-Man to that of Maguires - he's a lot more loveable when he's being anaganised at school, he's nervous and twitchy in a way a social outcast would be believed to behave, but most importantly, he's both playful and bad ass as Spider-Man, something Maguire never brought to the table. One scene in particular shows this, where Spider-Man makes a web all through the sewers to act as a noise/movement alarm for the Lizard. This scene not only shows us that Parker is indeed very clever, but also that Spider-Man is a fun character (something that was never shown by Maguire), as he sits and plays a game on his phone whilst he waits.

Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill) does a great job as Dr Curt Connors/The Lizard, although, again, the semi-schizophrenia moments feel terribly familiar to Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. But on a whole, The Lizard was a very good choice of villain, and Connors involvement with Peters father brings certain puzzle elements to whether or not the good/bad Dr. was involved in their death.

Where some of the film falls flat, the action sequences are very well done, with Spider-Man performing all of the acrobatic skills you'd expect, and the POV segments, although lacking, are a great addition to the film, allowing you to see first hand what Spider-Man is doing, its just a shame there wasn't more of these moments.












Whilst it's by no mean a contender to The Avengers crown, The Amazing Spider-Man is an enjoyable film, that, although lacking in parts, it did still deliver a much more believable Peter Parker with Andrew Garfield. I just hope the next instalment is more resourceful in where it heads.

Release Date:

US (wide): July 3, 2012

Genre: Super-Hero

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Language: English

New Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Trailer

Bane knows a big secret, and he want's to share it with us all...

• Release Date:
• US (wide): July 20, 2012
• Genre: Super-Hero,  Action, Adventure
• Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Production Company: Legendary Pictures
• Language: English

For more on Batman: The Dark Knight, KAPOW! this this link right here.

Xbox 720 Price, Features Revealed in Rumored 'Unconfirmed' Document

Remember, this is all speculation and rumour, but an unconfirmed document allegedly leaking out of Microsoft reveals the company's five-year plan, price, and features for the Xbox 720.


[Update] The document has been taken removed from its original source at the request of Covington & Burling, a law firm that advises Microsoft. Reaching out to Microsoft, who's reply was "We do not comment on rumors or speculation", and wouldn't comment on if the document was removed for being a forgery or not

Original Story:

The document takes a look at all the possibilities for Xbox 360 in 2011 leading up to the launch of the next generation in 2013, which includes a new Kinect sensor at a (possible) launch in a $299 bundle. Notable changes include a blu-ray disc drive, as well as a focus on and tablet integration and a whole lot more, but what the heck are you still doing here? Head over to read all 56 pages of the document!

We've reached out to Microsoft regarding the issue, but, as expected, they've not replied, although if they do, we can't imagine them confirming this.

New Australian Amazing Spiderman Trailer

The new Australian trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man; complete with new footage! You know what to do, check out the video after the jump!

Release Date:

US (wide): July 3, 2012

Genre: Super-Hero

Studio: Columbia Pictures

Language: English

E3 2012 - Don't Miss It!

All the news, videos, previews on the biggest gaming event of the year -  Right Here!



With E3 arriving on June 5th through June 7th, keep tuned to Tech Beever, as we'll have up to the minute news leading up to the event, plus all the info and news on the days. Already missed out on our E3 2012 news? Then hit the link below to see everything, all wrapped up in a neat little pile for your eyes.


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New Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Footage

The first TV spots for The Dark Knight Rises has debuted online and it features all-new footage! Check 'em out after the jump!


[UPDATE] Once you've watched these, we have a brand new video here!

• Release Date:
• US (wide): July 20, 2012
• Genre: Super-Hero,  Action, Adventure
• Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
• Production Company: Legendary Pictures
• Language: English

The Last of Us: Truck Ambush Cinematic Trailer

Joel and Ellie won't have an easy road ahead of them...

We met survivors Joel and Ellie as they battled infected humans turned monsters, but then, after the occasional quotes from Uncharted developers Naughty Dog, everything went quiet. Yesterday, however, the team revealed a new cutscene from the game, and showed off the 'new-look' Ellie.


Check out the embedded video below!





Developed by Naughty Dog, The Last of Us is being made exclusively for the Playstation 3, keep tuned to Tech Beever for all updates.

Video Source: MadAssGamers

Release Date: TBA

Rated: 18+

Genre: Action/Adventure/Horror

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment

Developer: Naughty Dog Software