There's one flat-out great sequence in Michael Mann's new film, Public Enemies, the kind that makes you wish you were watching another movie. It's a spectacular (and poorly thought-out) shoot-out in a lodge in the Wisconsin woods where John Dillinger ...Read More

Michael Mann, "Public Enemies" (2009).

A sampling of topics from my e-mail and IM conversations of the last seven days: - the Joker as the Übermensch - Gotham = Baghdad - "Is Batman a Jack Bauer-like Republican vigilante figure, who takes the hatred of the world upon himself ...Read More

From the Wiretaps.

Almost five hours of movies (Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight) and four hours of sleep later, I find that I can barely string together a coherent review. (This is also a ...Read More

Guillermo del Toro, “Hellboy 2: The Golden Army” (2008) / Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight” (2008).