How to Make Batman Real: Mask of the Phantasm 25 Years Later
Few pop culture figures have had as many ups and downs in popular esteem as Batman, a character who, in one guise or another, can always capture people’s imaginations but […]
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The Class of 2016: My Favorite Movies of All Time
My growing pains as a learning cinephile continue. In some ways, this past year has been a very helpful experience. I continue to plug away at the gaps in my […]
Caped Wonder, Winged Freak: A Superman/Batman Postmortem
Superhero movies have, over the course of seventy-odd years, blown up like a balloon. With each stage of development, from serials to television to early blockbusters to post-9/11 tentpoles, the budgets […]
My Favorite Movies: Batman
I’ve been familiar with this movie all my life, and it’s still slippery. At the time of its release, it was greeted as the first cinematic adaptation of Batman to […]
Batman/Superman Serials: Tumblr Reviews
The two archetypal superheroes made their cinematic debuts in quick bursts of action to be played in front of the movies people came to see. These serials took fifteen weeks […]
Bonus Retrospective! Batman vs. Superman
As I’ve mentioned, there’s a movie coming out on March 25 that will be the first of its kind in one particular respect. Two characters will share the screen in […]
My Favorite Movies: Batman Returns
This is the story of three freaks. Pale as death, they walk by night, guided by their spirit animals. The surface world, occupied by the gaudy and squeaky clean rites […]
My Favorite Movies: The Dark Knight
Five years have passed since this movie was a phenomenon. The footprint it left on pop culture is huge — its effects on comic book movies, and by extension all […]
Watchmen: Twilight of the Superhero
Lois Lane: You’ve got me? Who’s got you? It’s summertime; let’s talk about superheroes. If I were to argue that the comic book exists as an art form at the […]
Supplemental Post: Pulp Fiction, Meet The Tree of Life
(See my previous post) As Deems Taylor puts it during his final speech in Fantasia, “[The pinnacle of my all-time favorite movies list] is a combination of two [films] so […]
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