For years, the people who write the Batman comics and movies have been drawn to the theme of insanity. The Joker is wild, of course, and so are many of the other villains; and it is often suggested that a billionaire like Bruce Wayne must be crazy on some level too, if he feels compelled […]
Batman Begins
Batman begins is easily the best of the summer blockbusters so far, and quite possibly the best movie ever made about the Dark Knight. It is certainly the first live-action film to take the title character and his roots seriously. In 1989, a lot of people went ga-ga for the first of Tim Burton’s films […]
The New World a feast for the senses and spirit alike
Los Angeles — Terrence Malick movies take a long time to gestate. Malick typically shoots hours and hours of footage, much of it improvised, and he then spends months editing it together. And in a career that goes back 33 years, he has directed only four films: Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line […]