I have to say that I’m entirely confused. Was the Summer 2008 popcorn summer movie season a good one or wasn’t it? The batpod-tastic success of The Dark Knight certainly seems as though we can mark this one in the “win” column, but on reflection I realize that I saw about a third fewer movies [...]

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:

“What you can’t change, you’ve just got to ride out.” – Ennis Del Mar
It seems strange that upon the death of a young promising actor that we’ll hear so much talk about a wasted future and the impact on box office grosses, but there it is.
I am utterly amazed by the thought that someone, somewhere, [...]

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 [...]

This has turned into Movie! One-Sheet! Week! at Burbanked, with Indiana Jones a handful of days ago and now three new posters heralding Christian Bale’s return to the dark world of latex, psychotic badguys and the fine art of using only the lower half of one’s face to act.
We first saw a Batman-themed one-sheet [...]

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 [...]