Batman Ninja - DVD Review

Out on DVD from Monday 14th May, a new story featuring Gotham City's greatest hero, Batman Ninja

Incorporating the influence of Anime animation, Batman in the attempts to ward off an evil experiment, gets transported to feudal Japan where the Joker and the rest of the criminal masterminds have taken over various states of Japan as their feudal lords in the hope to make Japan one criminal world with Penguin, Poison Ivy, Two-Face all joining the party.

Batman is not entirely on his own, he has Catwoman as his ally - the plan to bring structure and normality to Japan before getting themselves and everyone back to the modern day world.

Whilst lusciously drawn in such detail, the film is also a satirical comment on the influence of western civilisation on eastern worlds with the Joker ploughing the land for coal bringing forward the industrial revolution by a few hundred years.  Ironically though the influence goes full circle with anime becoming an avenue for new storylines and narratives for the Caped Crusader.

Featuring good voice work led by Roger Craig Smith as Bruce Wayne and Tony Hale as The Joker, the film is a stunning piece of animation full of set pieces aplenty and colourful aplomb.

This new adventure away from Gotham is ripe for fans old and new; providing a good gateway for American comic book fans to find a route to enjoy the rich tradition of Anime movies.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is pleased to make available a brand new featurette for the incredible upcoming animation, BATMAN NINJA, out now on Digital and available on Blu-ray™ Steelbook, Blu-ray™ and DVD May 14.

Marvel's Daredevil

Out on Netflix from 10th April 2015, premiering thirteen (13) one hour episodes, Marvel Studios is pleased to announce the release of Daredevil.

Blinded as a child, Matt Murdoch (Charlie Cox) fights injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night he hands out vigilante justice as the superhero Daredevil in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City.

Following on from the television success of Agents of SHIELD, the trailer shows us Murdoch as a little bit more conflicted in Cox's performance in contrast to the star billing acting of Ben Affleck in the feature length film from over 10 years ago.

For Cox, it is a real shot in the arm to be given this role, he has done solid work for a number of years starting with Stardust and more recently in Hello Carter where he played a variant of the Hugh Grant type and as the love interest of Jane Hawking in the Theory of Everything. Cox seems to pull off the feat of being an action hero whilst also displaying the inner torment so common in them.

Daredevil is available from Netflix on 10th April in all territories where available