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Christian ‘Batman’ Bale is a serious man for a serious role

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jul.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The role of Batman in “The Dark Knight” suits Christian Bale better than when he played the comic book hero in “Batman Begins.” Literally, the Batman...

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The Dark Knight

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jul.08] :. Batman's dilemma in The Dark Knight is how to use his bad press, whether he will embrace it or continue to fight it.

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3:10 to Yuma

by Jarrett Berman

[4.Feb.08] :. As a genre piece, Mangold’s remake satisfies the requisite clichés (sweeping desert vistas, corseted women, ample gunplay), but not much else.

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Rescue Dawn

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[18.Dec.07] :. Werner Herzog has made a career out of profiling men with impossible dreams who end up fighting against nature and society to make them a reality.

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3:10 to Yuma

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Sep.07] :. All the men in this movie think they're doing the right thing, no matter how unhinged their actions may look.

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Chicago film crew tries to keep ‘Batman’ under wraps

by Terry Armour [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[2.Aug.07] :. CHICAGO - A curious crowd has gathered in Old Town, where a film crew has spent a good portion of the night setting up shop. Word has traveled through the neighborhood that the latest in the...

Short Cuts - In Theaters: Rescue Dawn (2006)

by Bill Gibron

[28.Jul.07] :. In auteur/artist Werner Herzog’s world, there are only two major conflicts – man vs. nature, and man vs. his own nature. Such a philosophy encapsulates almost every kind of interaction...

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Mar.06] :. Howl's Moving Castle ticks with nervous energy and unsettledness. These jittery-edged images conjure exquisite rhythms as they approximate children's perspectives.

The New World (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[23.Dec.05] :. The New World is ambitious and gorgeous, the landscape serving as a kind of objective correlative for characters' cravings and astonishments.

Batman Begins (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition with Comic Book) (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Nov.05] :. Nolan's Batman is perpetually knotted up, unable to forget his dead parents, seeking a vague solace in his hard body's capacity for violence.

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Jun.05] :. Charming, peculiar, and occasionally ingenious, Howl's Moving Castle tilts between fantastical beauty and philosophical pondering.

Batman Begins (2005)

by Todd R. Ramlow

[16.Jun.05] :. Christian Bale brings a menace to Batman, making him radically distinct from alter ego Bruce Wayne.

The Machinist (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Jun.05] :. Trevor is an image disappearing, more about reduction and loss than self-knowledge and identification.

The Machinist (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Oct.04] :. The Machinist digs so deeply into its protagonist's mind that it's difficult to see a way out.

Equilibrium (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Dec.02] :. Hooray for kicking opponents' heads in, fancy wirework, and twirling black topcoats.

Reign of Fire (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Jul.02] :. There's probably something to be said here about guys and competition and pointy weapons.

American Psycho (2000)

by Todd R. Ramlow

WARNING: The following review contains spoilers. Confessions of a Serial Killer Much like Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel of the same name, writer-director Mary Harron’s...

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

What else could 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' be, other than the frivolous and utterly forgettable movie that it is?"

Shaft (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

It’s Isaac Hayes’s music, of course, that resonates. Whatever else you say about that “complicated man” named John Shaft, that whaa-whaa-whaa theme song identifies him...