Newsnight Review, 25 July

On Review, summer fun with superheroes, star-crossed lovers, fakers, and dictators. Here's Kirsty's look ahead to the programme: "Paul Morley, Natalie Haynes and John Carey (and later in the programme for reasons that will become clear, Salam Pax, the Baghdad Blogger) spend two-and-a-half hours in the company of Batman and The Joker in The Dark Knight. Christopher Nolan returns to direct a second time, teaming up again with Christian Bale in the hell that is Gotham City - and Batman just isn't prepared for the evil force of this Joker - the late Heath Ledger's fiendish psychological monster with the hellish grin. Will his performance deliver a posthumous Oscar? Once upon a time James Frey wrote a shocking memoir about the middle class Ohio boy who plumbed the depths of drug and drink addiction, and ended up in jail for three... [read full story]