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Review: The Dark Knight
If Batman Begins represented a step or several forward from the superhero movies that came before, so does The Dark Knight represent another leap. The Dark Knight retains all that I loved about its predecessor – note-perfect acting[1], solid writing, gorgeous cinematography and art direction – and adds several new flavors to its casserole of [...]
Review: Superman Returns
There’s a scene early on in Superman Returns which beautifully establishes director Bryan Singer‘s priorities for his latest superhero epic: the Kryptonian rocket which Superman has apparently been using during his mysterious time off Earth crashes in a cornfield near his mother’s farm in Kansas. We don’t see the ship land, however, not directly; we [...]
Review: X-Men: The Last Stand
Let’s say for just a minute that you’re not just like everyone else. There’s something about you, either something with your body, your heart or your head, that sets you apart from what society likes to define as “normal.” Maybe you hate whatever it is that makes you different; maybe you adore it; maybe you’ve [...]
Review: Fantastic Four
Calling the 1961 comic debut of the Fantastic Four groundbreaking would no doubt elicit a cry of “It’s clobberin’ time!” from super-hero historians and rabid comic fans worldwide. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s vision of a super-powered team filtered through the dynamic of an otherwise normal “family” not only broke new ground, it forged a [...]
Review: Batman Begins
One thought kept bouncing through my head over and over as I watched Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan‘s magnificent reconceptualizaion of the Batman mythos: “They get it.” Director Nolan (Memento, Insomnia) and co-screenwriter David Goyer understand that audiences don’t want to see the primary-color pap of Joel Schumacher‘s last two Batman travesties. We don’t want superhero [...]
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