Actors who worked with Christopher Nolan have plenty of stories about the methods to his madness. Earlier this year, comments from “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Interstellar” star Anne Hathaway got blown out of proportion when she said the filmmaker doesn’t allow chairs on his sets. (What she meant was Nolan doesn’t keep directors’ chairs […]
Continue readingAudience word-of-mouth is in on Christopher Nolan’s time-bending return to screens “Tenet.” According to CinemaScore, which polls audiences to grade films on a scale from F to A+, “Tenet” has received a B rating. That’s not a death knell, but it’s likely below expectations for audience-beloved Nolan and “Tenet” distributor Warner Bros., already fielding mixed […]
Continue readingChristopher Nolan‘s Dark Knight Trilogy came to an end with The Dark Knight Rises by giving Bruce Wayne the opportunity to leave behind his vigilante life, leaving Gotham City to think that he sacrificed himself by flying a nuclear bomb far off the coast, into the ocean. Believed to be dead, the city creates a […]
Continue readingApart from Darkman and his work as Ra’s al Ghul in Batman Begins and briefly again in The Dark Knight Rises, Liam Neeson has not appeared in any other superhero films — a bit of a surprise, since the actor has had a long, multifarious career that includes other big budget pictures like Star Wars […]
Continue readingIt’s taken years of development, but the first solo ‘Batman’ film since Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises” has officially begun production, eight years after actor Christian Bale hung up the cape and cowl. And with the beginning of filming, Warner Bros. has gone ahead and confirmed all those cast and crew reports that have […]
Continue readingHow long is Birds of Prey? Why are victims of The Dark Knight Rises shooting victims in Aurora, Co frustrated with Todd Phillips? Did you know Buck Henry created his own superhero many decades ago? Why did Robert Pattinson choose to star in The Batman? Why was Joaquin Phoenix difficult for the Joker hair and […]
Continue readingThe fomenting discussion around the depiction of gun violence in “Joker” and whether the revisionist DC origin story celebrates it or not isn’t going away anytime soon. Especially as we inch closer and closer to the Academy Awards nominations announcement, bright and early this coming Monday, January 13.Following in the footsteps of the surviving families […]
Continue readingChristian Bale is in negotiations to join Marvel Studios’ “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Variety has confirmed.Should the deal happen, it would be Bale’s first big franchise movie since his final performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman in 2012’s “The Dark Knight Rises.”The fourth film in the “Thor” franchise — which is slated to open Nov. 5, 2021 […]
Continue readingThe trend of Christopher Nolan movie prologue screenings continues with Tenet, Nolan’s latest secretive film. Similar to what happened with The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Dunkirk, the opening sequence of Nolan’s new movie is headed to IMAX movie screens – in front of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. That’s bound to […]
Continue readingDC Films appears to have hit its stride, rebounding from the commercial failure of “Justice League” and the critical drubbing of “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” with a few well-timed box office successes. “Aquaman” and “Joker” both generated over $1 billion at the global box office, becoming the first DC productions to reach those […]
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