Okay, now I’ll just admit that I’m trying to freshen up my sidebar a little. But this is a nifty piece of Batman-themed editing:

I woke up just after 4:30 am on January 17th, 1994, on the floor of the one bedroom in my Burbank one-bedroom apartment. This was not the result of the previous night’s drunken binging or Hollywood partying with producers, starlets and celebrities, but rather a function of the rather sizable earthquake that had hit the [...]

I’m pretty sure I’m in the minority on this one, but Burbank, California, is the most fascinating place I’ve lived in. What I truly loved about it was the way that it sits in the middle of about half of all the major moviemaking studios in L.A.; it’s seemingly the cradle of a one-industry town’s [...]

This is all the convincing I need that Warner Bros. and Christopher Nolan have absolutely figured out how to bring innovation and excitement back to the way movies are marketed. Please go ahead and click on that one-sheet; make it bigger, drink in that red and orange fire, read that frigging great tagline again. Then [...]

As per my usual sense of being on top of these kinds of things, I’m a full day behind in discussion of the new trailer for next summer’s top contender The Dark Knight. The truth is, I was too busy watching this trailer yesterday to write much about it.
It’s that good. In fact, it’s [...]

Of course, no one will ever confuse Al Roker with the concept of high journalistic standards, but Erik from Cinematical is right on the money when he suggests that Roker seems more than a little out of his element on a set visit to The Dark Knight:
Naturally, the Today Show producers think it’s amusing or [...]

Christopher Nolan is my current Hollywood hero. And that’s not just because he has a growing and impressive filmography, but also because, in the creation of next year’s The Dark Knight, he seems to have figured out several important lessons of compelling filmmaking that have somehow eluded the vast majority of creative thinkers in Hollywood:

He’s [...]