With its heart caught between a daytime soap and a gritty superhero drama, the series never feels as potent or as focused as it could.
Adam West and Burt Ward are antipodal to every subsequent incarnation of Batman and Robin. The dynamic duo are blithe fuddy duddies turned billionaire scions in spandex.
The series is primarily occupied with providing the viewer with a collection of future super-villain Easter eggs.
Burton puts more of a premium on sound and image to suggest character depths than the more prosaic Christopher Nolan does.
Even amid the troubling trend of remaking films that have barely collected a speck of dust, there are still movies that can surprise you.
Men in masks have been darting across the movie screen since the days of silents and serials.
The new poster for Man of Steel is an exercise in tedium.
Critics get a bad wrap for being “out of touch” with the masses, but Tomatometer listings indicate that critics have been surprisingly forgiving of superhero fare.
The Avengers will assemble for what may be the most overstuffed tent-pole ever, and Katy Perry will unleash the first movie that could actually give you cavities.
For all the similarities between these two posters, it’s important to note that their central logos are fundamentally opposite.
Rarely operating as agents of actual literature, the superheroes are instead portrayed as foils, projections, and countercultural symbols—ideas, the things that stand for things.
Here’s one of those categories where the spoils usually go to whoever shows us the “most” of whatever it is they’re nominated for.
Snyder’s 300 is a twin fount of humorlessness and turgidity.
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