“You think this is part of some revolution?” — Jim Gordon One major criticism of The Dark Knight Rises is the film’s perceived stance on politics. Specifically, despite repeated denials by director Christopher Nolan and writer David Goyer that the film is not an intentional commentary on on the Occupy movement, people as notable as […]
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Is Catwoman the Bride of Christ?
“You’ve made some mistakes, Miss Kyle.” – John Blake Last week, I explored how Bruce Wayne’s Hero’s Journey establishes him as a Christ-figure in The Dark Knight Rises. A further excellent parallel my friend Anthony Mako pointed out to me is that if Bruce is Jesus, the Selina clearly parallels the Scriptural presentation of the […]
“Why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” — Thomas Wayne As I’ll be discussing in more detail in an upcoming post, The Dark Knight Rises is the final act in Chris Nolan’s epic and now-classic Batman trilogy. Nolan is a master-storyteller, so in The Dark Knight Rises, Bruce embarks […]
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Review: The Dark Knight Rises
“Do you know what makes this the worst place on earth? Hope. I learned here there can be no true despair without hope.” — Bane First, a short, spoiler-free review: The Dark Knight Rises is a must-see film. Easily the best film of the year. It’s not perfect, but it’s audacious. Nolan takes some tremendous […]
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What It Means to Be a (Spider-) Man
Fun, funny and surprisingly good restart for a beloved character. This is Spider-man for the new generation, and a solid foundation for great sequels.
A good enough biopic/monster-movie mashup that did too much monsters without enough mythology or character development to be truly great.
Sci-Fi epic Prometheus has lots to say about religion. Some of it’s good, and some is not so good.
Horrific, beautiful, suspenseful and profound. You almost never get all that in a sci-fi film.
The abominable dialogue and conceptual shortfalls keep this Once Upon a Time from living Happily Ever After. And that’s a shame.
The Avengers is the perfect Summer Blockbuster spectacle. For other super-hero films to be interesting in the post-Avengers world, they must focus on story and characters over spectacle.