A billboard spotted in Chennai, south India appears to commemorate the death of South African leader Nelson Mandela with a photograph of Morgan Freeman, the actor who played Mandela in 2009 film Invictus.
Joseph Kosinki’s sci-fi pretender Oblivion arrives at our cinemas with an unmistakably bulky baggage. It piles up an excessive weight of borrowing, conscious or unintentional, bearing the absolute misfortune of being compared to a live-action version of Pixar’s dystopian romantic sci-fi WALL-E, featuring a protagonist, operating as a mechanic/repairman, roams a desecrated post-apocalyptic Earth where humans have buggered off to a different planet somewhere (this time, one of Jupiter’s moons Titan, of all places).
Eight years after the death of Harvey Dent, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has become a recluse, living out his days pining for what he has lost. He is woken from this slumber by two things, Selena Kyle (Anne Hathaway) a cat burglar who makes an immediate impression, but more dangerously the emergence of Bane (Tom Hardy), a new criminal whose brute force is matched only by his sharp intellect. Bruce Wayne returns to the Bat, but finds himself at odds with Alfred (Michael Caine) about the direction his life should be headed.