Christopher Nolan’s Batman finale hits theaters today.
Tell us what you thought of 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:29 pm · July 19th, 2012
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'Lincoln' eases the pressure with a mid-November release
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:01 am · July 19th, 2012
A wise move for a film feeling the burden of expectation?
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10 Batman arcs to prepare you for 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:34 am · July 17th, 2012
Which stories have inspired Christopher Nolan’s trilogy?
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'Dark Knight Rises' cast and crew speak of 'bittersweet' goodbye at New York premiere
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:34 pm · July 16th, 2012
The family Christopher Nolan built bids farewell.
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'The Batmobile' documentary to air on The CW
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:35 pm · July 16th, 2012
Take look back at the Dark Knight’s wheels over the years.
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The 'Dark Knight Rises' Oscar talk begins
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:51 pm · July 12th, 2012
And here…we…go!
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Tech Support: Lindy Hemming on dressing Bond… and Bane
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:53 am · June 19th, 2012
The Oscar-winning costume designer is curating a London exhibition of 007 designs.
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Listen to samples of Hans Zimmer's score for 'The Dark Knight Rises'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:55 am · June 14th, 2012
The music of the third film seems to call back to ‘Batman Begins’ a lot.
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Off the Carpet: Setting the table for the 2012-2013 film awards season
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:35 am · June 11th, 2012
With the film awards season still a few months off, it’s time to at least clean up the joint and get some fresh predictions out there. Today we take a look at the lay of the land at the year’s midway point.
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The Long Shot: Searching for sleepers in the Oscar guessing game
Posted by Guy Lodge · 9:34 am · June 11th, 2012
As early Oscar charts hype up juggernauts like “Lincoln” and “Les Misérables,” what’s this year’s little engine that could?
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License to brood: James Bond and Batman wrestle internal and external demons
Posted by Roth Cornet · 5:10 pm · May 20th, 2012
What do our broodingly complex contemporary heroes have to say about our modern vision and version of “the ideal?”
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The Lists: Top 10 performances in comic book movies
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:44 am · May 1st, 2012
With “The Avengers” hitting theaters imminently and “The Amazing Spider-Man” and “The Dark Knight Rises” still to come, we look at the top portrayals of film’s comic book subgenre.
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My favorite Oscar win: Anton Furst and Peter Young for 'Batman'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:40 am · February 22nd, 2012
The spring and summer of 1989 were dominated by a solitary image — the Batman logo — plastered on lunch boxes, hats, posters, anything marketable. It was a beautiful image, a painting by Anton Furst, in fact, boldly stretched across the film’s one-sheets and cut off on the sides, indicating that, indeed, this film would be big, too big even for the poster.
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The Lists: Our top 10 most anticipated films of 2012
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:54 am · January 3rd, 2012
With a new year comes a new reserve of hope for what the multiplexes might have to offer. While HitFix has already cranked out a big list of 30 titles most movie-lovers are anticipating this year, we at In Contention put our heads together and came up with our own.
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The new 'Dark Knight Rises' trailer is the best of the franchise
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:33 am · December 19th, 2011
If you made it out to “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” at IMAX venues this weekend, you likely saw the opening prologue for “The Dark Knight Rises.” The new trailer for the film was also attached to prints of Brad Bird’s actioner, as well as prints of WB’s own “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.” Now it’s head the web (officially).
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Oscarweb Round-up: Stanley Kubrick's 'Fear and Desire' to air on TCM tonight
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:03 am · December 14th, 2011
In today’s round-up, TCM schedules Kubrick’s debut for tonight, Zimmer talks “Sherlock” and Batman and Jason Reitman and Patton Oswalt have a message for you about texting.
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Oscarweb Round-up: The year's best performances
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:13 am · December 13th, 2011
In today’s round-up, consideration of the year’s best performances, Christopher Nolan opens up a bit on “The Dark Knight Rises” and in honor of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the top five badass female roles.
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Oscarweb Round-up: R.I.P. Jerry Robinson
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:09 am · December 9th, 2011
In today’s round-up, Joker creator Jerry Robinson passes, the NYT ponders whether Scott Rudin held “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” because of last year’s early “Social Network” peak and James Cameron gets sued over “Avatar.”
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