Everyone knows The Dark Knight is one of the most anticipated films of the summer but it’s not the only Batman film I’m looking forward to this season. No, there’s a little flick called Batman: The Movie that’s hitting DVD and Blu-Ray this week, and I’m not talking about the 1989 Tim Burton version.

Made in 1966 to capitalize on the popular TV show, Batman: The Movie features the cast of the series, namely Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin, respectively, along with Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, Burgess Meredith as the Penguin, Cesar Romero as the Joker and Lee

Meriwether as Catwoman. Of course, the film trades in the same definitively campy humour as the show, if not more so: one scene in particular, involving a helicopter, a disappearing ship and a rubber exploding shark is truly hilarious.

While I’m down with the dark, scary, brooding Batman of the past few decades, there’s nothing wrong with the Caped Crusader of the ’50s and ’60s, decades which represented a far more colourful and playful approach to the character that’s just as valid as today’s tortured epic meditations on madness and revenge.

Speaking of revenge, one of the main inspirations for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill, the 1966 Shaw Brothers action classic Come Drink With Me is out now thanks to the Dragon Dynasty DVD series of classic and contemporary Asian cinema. Cheng

Pei-Pei plays a general’s daughter who’s a warrior in her own right, especially in combination with boozy mentor Yueh Hua. Also out in the same series is Heroes of the East, which stars Gordon Liu, who will be in town for Fantasia this week, as a Chinese fighter who takes on Japan’s greatest martial arts masters.

A more recent entry from Dragon Dynasty is Yip Wai-Shun’s 100 per cent awesome beat-em-up flick Flash Point. Starring Donnie Yen, the film’s first half is a pretty standard Infernal Affairs-style slow-burner, but it eventually turns into one of the greatest extended fight sequences in years.