What links The Batman to High Fidelity and The Satanic Verses?

From Robert Pattinson to an indie record store and a star New York publisher, we steer the Batmobile down the rabbit hole

Somehow playing Batman or the Joker has become the modern equivalents of an actor playing the Dane. And so Robert Pattinson displays his chops with the latest gritty interpretation of the bat-based vigilante. The almost three-hour (!) epic The Batman is a star-laden affair, with Colin Farrell, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman.

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