I know Batman's whole shtick is that he's prepared for any eventuality, which would presumably include the possibility that he may need to drive a toddler somewhere in the Batmobile. And I know he likes putting Bat-logos on things. But I still can't help but feel this thing is a little self-indulgent.

It's a damn shame that there aren't enough official t-shirts and posters from Duncan Jones' amazing space drama Moon. And the director is hoping to rectify that, by polling the public on whether they'd buy more Moon merchandise.

Disney is making it possible to turn every aspect of your material existence into a Tron-style gamescape. Behold Tron caps, chair, light-up sweatshirts, wiis controls, iphone light disc holders, Playstations and sneakers!

As far as naughty Star Wars geek-wear goes, Princess Leia's gold bikini is so last year — and California-based artisan EveningArwen has rectified that with these Darth Vader and Stormtrooper corsets.

It was 20 years ago this week that Tim Burton's Batman was released, changing the face of summer blockbusters, superhero movies and even breakfast cereal forever (Okay, maybe not that last one). Perhaps it's time to relive some Batmania...?

As the cliche (doesn't) go: Where there's the box office smoke, there's going to be sequel fire, and Batman's box office breaking lead to three follow-ups that pretty much define that whole The Good, The Bad and The Ugly idea.

The Comics
Arguably, Burton's movie didn't influence the comics directly as much as give them even more reason to pursue the dark, Frank Miller route they were already taking (Although 1992's "Destroyer" storyline recreated Gotham City using Anton Furst's production designs for the architecture of the movie, probably the …

In the summer of 1989, you couldn't get away from Batman even if you tried. Kevin Smith put it best:

Even before Tim Burton took the director's chair of Batman in 1986, the movie seemed troubled, if not just outright unlikely to ever happen. A Batman movie had been in development since 1980, following the success of Richard Donner's Superman The Movie and Superman II, with various writers - including comic writer…

If you were hoping that the shelves of your local stores were going to be filled by new characters and ideas in the next year, time to ratchet back your expectations. Word is, everything new is old again.