Batman

Review: What The Lego Batman Movie Taught Me About Batman (While Making Me Laugh)

February 11, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Lego Batman Movie is a relentless deconstruction of the Batman mythos, with an emphasis on “relentless” as this movie so jam-packed with jokes and sight gags it [...]

Batman Almost Didn’t Make It Into The Lego Movie

February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

Darkness. No Parents. And with those three little words Batman managed to steal The Lego Movie and get his own standalone spin-off, in theaters now. This almost didn’t [...]

A Question Worth Re-Examining: Why Did Ben Affleck Agree to Play Batman?

February 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

You could not have picked a better contrast between that which does and does not matter than two days ago when news headlines touting Donald Trump’s immigration ban and [...]

Review: The Accountant is Secretly the Ben Affleck Batman Movie Everyone’s Been Asking For

October 15, 2016 // 2 Comments

This post has been rated “S” for Spoilers. Ben Affleck is an amazing Batman. It still feels kind of weird to say that, but as it turns out the whole [...]

Hollywood Shuffle – News for August 30, 2016

August 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

In this Hollywood news round-up, there are updates on the Oscars and Birth of a Nation, China, Vault Comics, Batman, The Night Of, Pretty Little Liars, Grimm, GLOW, The Get [...]

A History of DC Comics at the Cinema: An Infographic

August 6, 2016 // 5 Comments

Batman. Superman 2. The Dark Knight. Woo-hoo! DC Comics movies rock! All-time classics! Superman 3-4. Supergirl. Steel. Catwoman. Jonah Hex. Constantine. Green Lantern. [...]

Original Movies Are Better Than Remakes/Reboots, Or So The Data Says: An Infographic

July 21, 2016 // 2 Comments

Amber at ForRent.com just sent me a link to a fantastic infographic in which she took a statistical approach to comparing the big reboots of our time to their originals. But [...]

WB’s DC Cinematic Universe: Are Things About to Get Very Messy Behind the Scenes?

April 30, 2016 // 8 Comments

There has been a disturbance in the DC Cinematic Universe. Have you felt it? Seth Grahame-Smith is no longer directing the Ezra Miller Flash movie, reportedly due to the old [...]

4 Things I Didn’t Know About Prince’s Work on the 1989 Batman Soundtrack

April 22, 2016 // 9 Comments

Even if you’ve never purchased a Prince album or downloaded a single one of his songs on iTunes, you’ve experienced his music every time you watched Tim [...]

Digging Deeper Into Batman v Superman’s Box Office: An Acceptable Return on Investment?

April 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

This wasn’t supposed to happen. When Warner Bros. picked 3/25/2016 as the release date for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, they thought they were guaranteeing [...]