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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Sadly, No One Believes in Robin

Showbiz Spy reports that Milo ‘Man That’s One Hell of a Last Name’ Ventimiglia is jonezin’ to portray Robin in the next installment of the Batman franchise. Wow. Observe:
I always thought I would make a great Robin. I would love to be Christian Bale’s sidekick in Batman. Even when I was younger I never wanted [...]

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Further Evidence That the Japanese May be Insane

/Film has reported that Japanese audiences really aren’t digging The Dark Knight.  By not digging, I mean they absolutely hate it.  In it’s second week it was bested by that third Mummy movie and What Happens in Vegas, which is some Ashton Kutcher movie that we’d forgotten about.  The box office failure has been greatly [...]

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Asshat Rumor Mill: Cher as Catwoman? Hot Damn, Maybe!

Ah, Ye Olde Rumore Mille. How the dulcet tones of her sheer idiocy doth make for great news for folks like us. Observe:
“The Daily Telegraph is running an almost certainly bogus story in which they claim Cher, that’s right Cher, is in negotiations to play the part of Catwoman in the sequel to The Dark [...]

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