The Batman movie review: to bat, or not to bat
No snark, no spandex pantomime spectacle. Just noir mystery, Pattinson’s sad recluse a detective in a cesspit of corruption. Relentlessly grim, all darkness and despair, not escapist but of our time.
Dark Knight
Joker movie review: sad clown, bad clown, not at all a rad clown
Not fit to lick the boots of Martin Scorsese or Christopher Nolan, though the height of its ambition appears to be its desperation to do so. A movie as pathetically ineffectual as its protagonist.
the screenwriting bible that is to blame for the tedious blandness of blockbusters
When I look at my watch during a movie, it’s because I’m checking to see if my guess about where in the runtime we are coincides with what just happened onscreen. This book is what makes that possible.
English school summer fete photo of the day: Buzz and Batman
I guess Gotham City and the universe were fending for themselves that day.
question of the day: Why are we debating the violence that fills movies when we should be debating their despair?
I am not suggesting that we should ban or censor movies full of despair! I’m suggesting that these despairing movies are doing too good a job of reflecting our society, and it’s our society we should be concerned with, not the messengers who deliver this news.
The Dark Knight Rises (review)
This may be the darkest, the grimmest, the most depressing summer popcorn movie ever. It is not summery. It is not popcorny. The peasants of Gotham are us, we 99 percent huddled in the dark and frantic for a hero we will not find.
how to reboot The Dark Knight: don’t (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Do actors deserve to be well paid for appearing in successful films even if they are not the entire reason the films are successful?
New York Post critic Kyle Smith cries foul at the fact that Kristen Stewart is so well paid for Twilight, but he seems to miss a key point…
yeah: women like superhero movies (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Are superhero films popular because our real leaders have failed us?
If it isn’t a failure of faith in our leaders that has made superhero films so popular in recent years, just what is it about this moment that has caused a resurgence in superheroes’ popularity?
