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).

(Image stolen from Beyazperde.) Not much about Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins either: people have said it's the best of the Batman franchise -- followed almost always by "Which isn't saying much," although in this case it is. It's an excellent popcorn ...Read More

Christopher Nolan, “Batman Begins” (2005).