Reboot culture is now the dominant form of entertainment. Whereas rebooting your artistic expression in popular computer used to be an annoyance, something you were forced to do by Windows misbehaving, a ‘reboot’ of a popular movie franchise implies a froth of originality and innovation, even though it simply enables you to ignore all past iterations and do it again, slightly differently, but fundamentally the same. And so The Batman is exactly like previous Batman films, but sulkier. The
