Boy, what a week, huh? We haven’t even recovered from the mass shooting in Colorado Springs, their second in six weeks, and whammo! We have a mass shooting in San Bernardino. With two major shooting events in America back to back, the usual script of recriminations and wailing didn’t hold, and people stopped being publicly…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BURBANK, CA (May 7, 2014) – Batman, one of the world’s most valiant super heroes, faces a villainous squad of criminals in an epic battle of good vs. evil in the DC Universe Original Movie, Batman: Assault on Arkham. Set in the world of the best-selling Batman: Arkham video game series, this…
Entertainment Weekly, of all places, presents one of the most thoughtful essays on superhero films and how– similar they’re all becoming, and even worse, how many other movies are aping them to great financial success and overall boredom. Superhero Movies have evolved to the point where three of the genre’s standard-bearers can embody radically different…
I finally watched The Dark Knight Rises last Saturday. Just a short recap: personal demons of mine kept me from seeing the film when it opened because of the shootings that happened during an opening night screening. The first day the film came to Blu-Ray I brought a copy and planed a Dark Knight Rises…
I wanted to see The Dark Knight Rises as much as I’d wanted to see any movie. When the film opened, I decided not to see it: the mass shooting that occurred during an opening night screening of the movie screwed me up but good. I was not being noble trying to make a stand…
I will stipulate that The Dark Knight Rises is not necessarily the movie Christopher Nolan set out to make. The tragic death of Heath Ledger derailed his plans to conclude the trilogy with more between Batman and the Joker so he spent the last four years rethinking how he wanted to end his trilogy. What…
Okay, first another bow toward my friend and colleague, John Ostrander. No sense in reviewing Skyfall, the new James Bond flick, since, in his November 18th column, John already wrote virtually everything I might have written about the entertainment. Let us agree: best Bond ever, for the reasons John cited. It’s been a banner year…
On the off chance you missed it, the home video version of The Dark Knight Rises will be out December 4, just in time for the holiday season. Check out the sizzle video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtsDtEkVGrw The Dark Knight Rises is the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. It has been eight years since…
Years in the making, Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns was never intended to rewrite the rules for the Caped Crusader or become the template for a generation of storytelling. It was, though, the culmination of a series of events that occurred at DC Comics and in Miller’s professional development that nicely dovetailed together. The…
Ouch, ouch, and more ouch. FADE IN: EXT. AIRPLANE After DC COMICS reminds everyone of their shitty new logo, HANS ZIMMER plucks a couple strings until HOODED TOM HARDY and nuclear scientist ALON ABOUTBOUL are taken on board CIA AGENT AIDAN GILLEN’S PLANE. AIDAN GILLEN We were only expecting the scientist, who the fuck are…
It’s even weirder when you realize that Mr. Universe was cropped out of the photo.
The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy By Jody Duncan Jesser and Janine Pourroy 304 pages, Abrams, $40 There is so much visually wonderful about Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Batman films that this book seemed an obvious event. An oversized hardcover, it has amazing production values with gorgeous photography on heavy paper, cleanly…
