Reviewed by Shahir Daud

EVERY NOW and again, I find myself compelled to revisit Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, a seething apocalyptic vision of Batman well into his fifties, returning to crime fighting after a decade of retirement. In his absence, Gotham City has finally receded into chaos, with the city awash with crime. Out of every iteration of the Batman myth, Miller's vision is perhaps the bleakest, honing in on Batman's deeply ingrained psychosis and nihilism, coupled with his ethically troubling vigilantism.

Reviewed by Aaron Yap

IF Ong-Bak restored the pain factor in the martial arts genre, highlighting every second of agony in all its blood-drenched, bone-crunching, skin-perforating glory, Born to Fight restores, for lack of a better phrase, the death factor in the action genre in general.

Reviewed by Jacob Powell

WARREN MILLER is not a name likely to make it onto many critics' top 10 directors list. His films may not delve the depths of the human condition BUT you do have to admire his intense passion for all things snow, which set apart his labours of love from other 'extreme sport' films and keep many people coming back for their seasonal Warren Miller fix. This year the granddaddy of the modern snow 'sportumentary' brings us Impact, his 55th instalment, and does a creditable job at continuing his legacy.