Does Heath Ledger Deserve the Oscar?

Last night at the SAG Awards, Heath Ledger was awarded the SAG Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor. He’s also favored to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as well. We all saw this coming. The buzz was circulating online even before The Dark Knight opened in July. But is all [...]

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A Reflection on Batman

Okay,  so we all know what happened at the end of Final Crisis by now.  As convoluted as the whole R.I.P storyline was it was only further complicated by Final Crisis.  In short, Bruce Wayne is out of the picture as Batman for the foreseeable future.   I dare say he is “dead” because in comics [...]

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How to Make a ‘Dark’ Superman (In a Couple of Easy-to-Follow Steps)

So, I’ve been thinking about the whole idea of this ‘dark’ Superman movie nonsense that’s been flying around for a while. For the most part, the idea is completely asinine. Supes represents a level of wholesome goodness that rose out of turmoil. He represents hope. Period.
However, he does have his ‘human’ side, thanks to Ma [...]

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Only Redeeming Quality of ‘Watchmen’ Poster: Silk’s Ass

Ok, so this is movie news, and I said I wasn’t doing movie news. Well, goddamnit, look at this:
There is only one redeeming quality about this poster. One. Singular. As in I dislike everything about this poster save for this one item:
Silk Spectre’s bum. It is a beautiful thing and, for that, I can forgive [...]

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‘Punisher: War Zone’ Poster Thrilling for Adolescents.

IGN brings us the latest Punisher: War Zone poster. And hot damn, look at all the guns. 13 year-olds the world over just had to go change their underwear.

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