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08 Mar

The Batman Would Not Exist Without These Noir Movies

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This article contains massive The Batman spoilers. The cops don’t look at him like other Batmans. When Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader enters a crime scene that wouldn’t be out of place in a David Fincher movie, the Gotham City Police Department neither assess this interloper with the kind of relief we see from civilians’ reactions to The Avengers, nor even the type of awe and hope glimpsed in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. They look at the Batman like a freak—just one who happens to be surprisingly good at solving crimes. That’s one of the more amusing innovations in Matt…
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08 Mar

The Batman: Villains That Could Terrorize Gotham in the Sequel

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This article contains spoilers for The Batman. If you’ve seen The Batman by now, it’s plain to see that director/co-writer Matt Reeves’ vision for the Dark Knight is perhaps the darkest we’ve seen onscreen to date, drenched in the brooding atmosphere and morally ambiguous tones of noir while constructed on the spine of a classic detective story. There’s virtually none of the fantastical carnival aspects of the Burton/Schumacher films and far less of the propulsive action pyrotechnics of the Christopher Nolan-directed Dark Knight trilogy. The Batman, as a result, is a “grounded,” “realistic,” and “gritty” — to throw around those…
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07 Mar

Indiana Jones 5 Trailer Release Teased in New Update

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After years of delays and creative team changes, filming on Indiana Jones 5 has finally been completed. And yet, we still don’t have a single official publicity photo from the movie. Heck, we don’t even have a title! What do we have to do to get a new look at Indy? Swipe an idol from its pedestal without disrupting the weight balance? Cross a seemingly invisible bridge? Find a crashed alien ship?  Well, while it’s not quite as exciting as a knight’s tomb declaring “X marks the spot,” director James Mangold did give us a bit of a hint on…
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07 Mar

The Batman: The Godfather Easter Egg You Might Have Missed

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This article contains The Batman spoilers. “Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me,” Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) tells the funeral director who seeks revenge on the men who assaulted his daughter in The Godfather. “But until that day, consider this justice a gift on my daughter’s wedding day.” In a pivotal scene in director Matt Reeves’ The Batman, it appears the godfather of Gotham City has lit up a similar Bat-Signal. The new film is more noir drama than your typical superhero movie; gangsters run Gotham City, and…
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06 Mar

The Batman Box Office: When ‘Soft’ Opening for Franchise Is Still Great

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It turns out Batman is both the hero movie theaters need and deserve in March 2022. Matt Reeves’ The Batman, the ninth solo live-action Dark Knight film, stands poised to gross $128.5 million this weekend. The opening is the largest any movie has seen at the box office since Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: No Way Home in December, which debuted at $260.1 million. It feels important to remind fans of that fact given some seem agitated on social media that The Batman failed to do Spidey numbers. But while that total might indicate a disparity between the current popularity of the…
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06 Mar

The Batman: When and Where to Watch Online

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After years of anticipation, The Batman is finally here. Originally, fans hoped to catch Robert Pattinson’s turn as the Dark Knight and his alter-ego, the orphaned billionaire Bruce Wayne, on June 25th, 2021. When COVID-19 disrupted director Matt Reeves’s shooting schedule, Warner Bros. set a new release date for October 1st, 2021. That, too, needed adjusting, but no more! The film finally hit theaters on March 4th, 2022. But there’s still one release date some Bat-fans long to know: when will The Batman be available on streaming platforms?  In years past, that question would have been ridiculous. After all, movies…
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05 Mar

What The Batman Final Scene Means for Sequels

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This article contains The Batman spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here. As far as teases go, it’s not exactly a subtle one. The final scene in The Batman gives us a look at the Riddler, alone in his cell at Arkham Asylum, although not truly alone. In the cell next to his sits a shadowy, scarred figure, one barely glimpsed through the tiny, reinforced window on the door, who is trying to comfort the agitated and defeated villain. And yes, it’s exactly who you think it is… The Joker It’s probably no surprise to anyone that The Batman found a…
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05 Mar

The Batman: Exploring The Riddler and Zodiac Killer Connections

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This article contains The Batman spoilers. We have a spoiler-free review here. The Batman features a fairly radical reinvention of classic Gotham City villain, The Riddler. For most of Riddler’s pop culture history, he’s been a relatively harmless criminal genius. While lives have definitely been lost at his hand, he’s usually depicted as someone more interested in outsmarting Batman and the authorities than he is of taking lives. Sure, there have been exceptions (the serial killer Riddler in the Batman: Earth One series by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank springs immediately to mind), but he’s generally not a terribly bloodthirsty…
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05 Mar

The Batman vs. The Dark Knight Trilogy: What Are the Differences?

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This article contains many The Batman spoilers. When Matt Reeves’ The Batman was first publicly announced—and really right up until the trailers dropped—a common refrain could be heard from longtime fans and casual moviegoers alike: “Do we really need another Batman movie? Is there anything left to say about this character after Christopher Nolan?” The question is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it preemptively puts the onus on Reeves, Robert Pattinson, and all the rest to justify their film by being emphatically different from the generally liked The Dark Knight Trilogy. Yet at the same time, it also…
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05 Mar

How F9 Ended up with That Puzzling Product Placement

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This article contains spoilers for F9 Now that F9 is streaming on HBO Max, cars n’ splosions fans who weren’t able to check out the penultimate entry into the Fast & Furious franchise last year are finally getting a chance to catch up with the film’s ludicrous plot and its set up for the upcoming tenth installment. But if F9 turned out to be a rather frustrating affair for a keen audience still very dedicated to the saga, it was perhaps even more so for those who tinkered away on its pricey product placement behind the scenes and who agreed…
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04 Mar

This Is the Zodiac Speaking: Movies Inspired by the Real Serial Killer

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The case of the Zodiac Killer–who murdered five people (that we know of) in Northern California in the late 1960s, and whose identity still remains a mystery–has fascinated filmmakers ever since his reign of terror began. This is partially because of his methods, partially because of his direct contact with investigators among the police and media, and partially because he was never caught. He was never even positively identified, which means, for all we know, he could still be alive today. Thus the Zodiac’s macabre history has gripped the imaginations of artists for decades, either with direct interpretations or tales…
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04 Mar

The Batman Post-Credit Scene Is Not What You’re Expecting

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This article contains spoilers of The Batman. You can read our spoiler-free review here. While The Batman largely avoids the gimmicks of modern interconnected superhero universes on the big screen, even this noir film can’t help but pack in tons of easter eggs and at least one cameo into its almost three-hour runtime. But don’t expect Superman or Wonder Woman to show up to help Robert Pattinson save the day here. There’s no Dick Grayson or Barbara Gordon, either. Instead, we get a brief introduction to director Matt Reeves‘ version of Batman’s most dastardly villain. The Batman doesn’t actually have…
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04 Mar

The Batman: Complete DC Easter Eggs and References

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This article contains The Batman spoilers. You can our spoiler-free review here. The Batman introduces DC Comics fans to a whole new take on the Dark Knight and Gotham City, courtesy of director Matt Reeves and star Robert Pattinson. It also brings new version of rogues like Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), Penguin (Colin Farrell), the Riddler (Paul Dano), and Carmine Falcone (John Turturro). The Batman has also arguably delivered the definitive version of Detective Jim Gordon, who is played brilliantly by Jeffrey Wright. With all of these characters comes decades of DC history. As you might expect, that means Reeves’ film…
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04 Mar

After Yang Review: A24 and Colin Farrell Robot Movie Will Make You Cry

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We’ve all surely thought about it from time to time: What would happen if we lost the technological tools that are now such an ingrained part of our everyday lives? How would we survive and work without the internet? What happens when we lose our smartphone? Can we live in a house where we have to turn lights on and off or adjust the thermostat instead of having Alexa do it? After Yang, the second full-length movie from director Kogonada (after his acclaimed 2017 feature debut, the John Cho-starring Columbus) addresses these questions in far more emotional and existential terms.…
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04 Mar

The Batman Ending Explained

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This article contains major The Batman spoilers. Our spoiler-free review is here. We’ve witnessed this scene before in a Batman movie. A Dark Knight and his feline companion stand by a motorcycle, parting ways for what feels like forever—but probably won’t be. It’s the final scene in Matt Reeves’ sinewy The Batman, and it echoes a similar moment from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Catwoman asks Batman to come with her and give up on this hellhole they call a city; he refuses. Yet for all the similarities, the context is wholly different. In Nolan’s final Batman movie,…
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03 Mar

The Batman Review: One of the Best Superhero Movies Ever Made

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Noir is a term thrown around a lot with a character like the Batman. This makes sense; the Dark Knight’s roots lie in the pulpy detective stories of the 1930s—he even first appeared in Detective Comics #27—and that era of crime fiction eventually gave way to the noir movement. Yet despite that phrase being used often to refer to previous Batman stories, cartoons, and even as a publishing gimmick where DC re-released old graphic novels in black and white print, very few of these tales are true noir. In noir, the hero knows (or eventually learns) he can never win,…
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03 Mar

Nosferatu and the Unholy War to Bury a Classic 100 Years Ago

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She is the Bride of Dracula. That is what they whispered whenever Florence Balcombe Stoker stepped into public view. Once an ethereal beauty whose features could capture Oscar Wilde’s imagination, if not his true ardor, the widow of author Bram Stoker spent the final decades of her life being haunted by her husband—but not his ghost; it was his vampire that refused to give her rest. Today, Florence is chiefly remembered as the architect behind what some might call the greatest act of attempted vandalism in cinematic history. She did, after all, pursue with the tenacity of Abraham Van Helsing…
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03 Mar

The Weekend Away Ending Proves You Should Keep Buying Cheap Crap Online

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This article contains spoilers for Netflix’s The Weekend Away If you’re the kind of person who tends to umm and ahh about whether you really do need that new piece of budget tat that’s sitting in your online cart before you commit, Netflix’s The Weekend Away is here to encourage you to be more enthusiastic about clicking “buy now” in the future with its Chekhov’s necklace ending. The new thriller movie, which stars Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Luke Norris (Poldark), is now available for the streaming service’s large base of murder-mystery junkies to gleefully consume, and follows depressed mom…
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02 Mar

West Side Story: The Brilliance and Tragedy of Its Disney+ Release

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A funny thing happened on the way to Oscar-voting season: the internet discovered Steven Spielberg made a West Side Story movie. Forgive the glibness, but it certainly felt that way over the last week when Film Twitter was inundated by stunned reactions to a certain tweet which revealed just a single snippet of Spielberg’s lively cinematic remake of the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical. In the clip a solitary, mind-numbingly complex dolly and crane (or drone?) shot follows a group of characters that include Maria (Rachel Zegler) and Anita (Ariana DeBose) as they enter a school gymnasium to attend…
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02 Mar

Hellbender: The Real-Life Origin of the Shudder Horror Movie

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This article contains spoilers for Hellbender. The new Shudder horror movie Hellbender introduces a new type of movie monster in the form of a witch/demon/apex predator hybrid. But the creation also comes from a surprising place of truth for The Adams, the family of filmmakers who make up Wonder Wheel Productions. In the film, 16-year-old Izzy (played by Zelda Adams) lives in isolation with Mother (Zelda’s real-life mom, Toby Poser) because she has a rare immune disorder. Or so she is told. After befriending Amber (sister Lulu Adams), Izzy questions the reality of her disease. And when she eats a…
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