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Tag: Batman Returns
Whatever Gotham Needs Him to Be
Batman, like most comic characters, has gone through many different phases and versions over his seventy-seven-year history, from dark avenger to silly goofball to a sort of swashbuckling adventurer, with many different shades mixed in. His cinematic exploits have followed suit, portraying him alternately as a creature of the night and a campy punster. While…
Whatever Gotham Needs Him to Be
Batman, like most comic characters, has gone through many different phases and versions over his seventy-seven-year history, from dark avenger to silly goofball to a sort of swashbuckling adventurer, with many different shades mixed in. His cinematic exploits have followed suit, portraying him alternately as a creature of the night and a campy punster. While…
Zack Snyder Thinks Batman is Irrelevant if he Doesn’t Kill
Zack Snyder appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and talked about, among other things, his DC films. The segment that’s setting off alarm bells in superhero fans is when he talks about Batman and his rule against killing. In Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Snyder’s version of Batman – played by Ben Affleck – kills…
Kevin Smith’s Smodcast Cinemas is Struggling
In 2022, Kevin Smith and some friends bought Atlantic Cinemas, a movie theater in Atlantic Highlands near Smith’s hometown of Red Bank, New Jersey. The idea was to preserve a treasure of his youth, and since rechristening it Smodcastle Cinemas, Smith has played classic movies – along with some of his own, of course –…
First Batman Image from The Flash Hits Instagram
He gave us a signal. In an Instagram post, Andy Muschietti, director of the upcoming DCEU movie The Flash (or whatever they end up calling it), shared an image of Michael Keaton’s Batman suit from the movie. The picture features the iconic emblem on the chest, this one a black bat with a yellow background,…
Whatever Gotham Needs Him to Be
Batman, like most comic characters, has gone through many different phases and versions over his seventy-seven-year history, from dark avenger to silly goofball to a sort of swashbuckling adventurer, with many different shades mixed in. His cinematic exploits have followed suit, portraying him alternately as a creature of the night and a campy punster. While…