Man I hope this doesn’t miss the mark:

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Looking ahead to the second half of the year, there are more than a few films floating to the top of my list of anticipations.  Here’s what I’d call the top 10: 1. “The Dark Knight” (hasn’t budged in six months) 2.“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” 3. “House of Lies” 4. “Quantum of Solace” […]

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I was reading through a schedule of upcoming TV appearances from the cast, and noticed one interesting pairing on “The View,” July 15: Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman.  What a treat to get that duo in one spot.  I think they shared, what, one scene in “Batman Begins?” Check out the week ahead for the […]

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In 2005, “Batman Begins” opened to just shy of $49 million. It’s fair to consider that a low number, because it came in behind the openings of such films as “2 Fast 2 Furious” and “8 Mile” of all things, even failing to best the $52 million mark of “Batman Forever” ten years prior. However, the […]

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I dropped in to see “Hancock” tonight and was frankly taken out of the film for the five minutes or so filmmaker Michael Mann was on screen. I noticed him initially, figured hey, Peter Berg let his mentor slide into the film with an on-screen cameo (Berg’s offices are two or three doors down from […]

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FYI, I’ve updated the predictions in the sidebar in the wake of the news that Miramax’s “Chéri” will be released in 2009.  I’ll update the charts some time over the weekend to reflect this in the various races there. UPDATE: Done and done.

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Batman scribe Jeph Loeb (“The Long Halloween, “Dark Victory”) has jumped into the recent Robin debate, defending the character’s potential in Christopher Nolan’s current trilogy. Hunter Stephenson at /film points us to this MTV story, which offers the following from Loeb: Take the time to tell the story properly…There is a story of Dick Grayson […]

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It’s a bit odd celebrating it from London, but then again, Guy and I raised a drink to Canada Day on Tuesday with Gerard over in Covent Garden (the three of us lucked out and found ourselves in the same place at the same time this summer). Anyway, where our American readers may be, Happy […]

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Benjamin Svetkey has cranked out a thoughtful, compelling cover story study of Heath Ledger’s performance in “The Dark Knight” for next week’s Entertainment Weekly. The piece, titled “Tragedy and Triumph,” concerns itself with how Ledger’s death has affected expectation and perception in the lead-up to the film’s release in a little more than a week.  It’s tightly written, […]

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Can this overcome the critical thumping it took at Cannes this year?  Personally, I think it looks rather good.  I’m devoted to Fernando Meirelles, even if I found “The Constant Gardener” to be overbearing and overrated.  But it’s hard to argue with talent when it’s clearly there, and this guy has it.  Check out the […]

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Sounds…so…amazing.

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Variety’s Peter Bart sat down recently with “Hellboy 2” director Guillermo Del Toro, presumably for the upcoming episode of AMC’s “Shootout.” He also has some nice pics up of the inventive filmmaker’s infamous sketchbooks, though they’re covered in watermarks.  I assume it’s all in the way of plugging Sunday’s episode (which should be a good […]

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This flew under my radar yesterday, but the Toronto International Film Festival has added a few more films to its Septmber line-up, including Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna.”  The press release has more.

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David Cohen offered up a pretty standard story at Variety yesterday, touching on the darkness of “The Dark Knight” and the danger of alienating general audiences versus appeasing fans, etc.  He quotes two online Batman fansite sources (truthfully, a knowledgable step if you want to convey any real education on the character — these guys […]

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Warner Bros. publicity has made the round table interviews from last weekend’s “Dark Knight” junket available.  There’s a lot of good, in-depth stuff from Christopher Nolan, Christian Bale, Aaron Eckhart and the rest. There is, however, a big hole in everything, because you can’t help but wish Heath Ledger was there to discuss his approach […]

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Two posts at /film and Obssessed with Film have me spinning my wheels this morning, wondering just who in the heck has approached comic scribe Mark Millar to revamp Superman for the screen in three years. The whole story started with a Daily Record interview that quoted Millar as saying he “always wanted to reinvent […]

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Not particularly new or earth-shattering perspective, but worth a link nontheless.  From a Xan Brooks item this morning in The Guardian: History…is not on [Ledger’s] side. James Dean was twice nominated in the wake of his death and yet still finished up as a posthumous loser on the night. More recently, Oliver Reed (for Gladiator) […]

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I’ve moved the contributors section from its own page over to the About section, in order to make room for our massive links page (a work in progress). FYI.

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