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Elvis (1979) AS BAZ Luhrmann's predicably lavish, glitzy and – if we're being totally honest here – historically unreliable Elvis film opens in cinemas this weekend, it's perhaps a good time to remember a previous attempt to capture the essence of the man they called 'The Memphis Flash' on film.

Tim Burton’s 1989 movie Batman was a hit, but he hated the film and called it "boring." He refused to return to the franchise until Warner Bros. promised him creative freedom. Thirty years later, his defiant rewriting of the Batman mythos in Batman Returns stands out as the strangest Batman movie. Starring Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Danny DeVito, and Christopher Walken.

This morning, a simple message ended up taking nearly an hour out of the day for us to get everyone's answers.

This morning, a simple message ended up taking nearly an hour out of the day for us to get everyone's answers.

This morning, a simple message ended up taking nearly an hour out of the day for us to get everyone's answers.

This morning, a simple message ended up taking nearly an hour out of the day for us to get everyone's answers.

Horror, comic books, cowboys and even baseball: Sam Raimi’s movie catalog is deep and diverse, and that’s factoring in the nearly 10-year break between the new, Raimi-helmed Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful — the Disney fantasy that last had the Evil Dead creator seated in the director’s chair.

When a mysterious comet passes close to Earth, machines everywhere suddenly take on murderous minds of their own. Soon, video games, cash machines, drawbridges, toasters, and steamrollers all go on a psychotic killing spree of global rebellion. But when the Dixie Boy Truck Stop is held hostage by a mob of homicidal 18-wheelers, human vengeance goes into overdrive. Who made who? And who will survive the final showdown of man vs. bloodthirsty machine? Watch Maximum Overdrive in Canada.

The "Laurence Olivier of bad movies" will be hosting a revival of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'