Results tagged “Sky Movies” from Birmingham Mail - Speech Balloon

SINCE gettting a reputation as the 'comics guy' in the Mail newsroom I get handed many weird and wonderful press releases. Those where dry-cleaning companies compare themselves to Superman or Hulk smashes down prices as big business tries to cling to the cape of the latest big screen hero.

One I was passed today uses the classic press release technique of a poll of the nation's favourite super hero to promote a new season of films on telly. Obviously several Batman movies are on because he is, funnily enough, the favourite hero. We are told he was chosen in a survey of 100 movie 'experts'. They must have missed Batman and Robin - which managed to undo all the good work of earlier films.

As ever there is no indication of who these expers are, so they are probably film buffs from the PR company's office. Nor does it say how many votes each received and whether it was an open field. But to compensate they do give us some expert analysis.