Laiya, Batangas, August 2009.

Is it time for a Best Films of the 2000s list yet? (Because if not, I'll be reposting this at the end of 2010, and removing the two films below from 2000.) The list will probably undergo numerous revisions -- obviously ...Read More

I’m Making A List And Checking It Twice: Towards a List of My Favorite Movies of the Decade.

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).