An ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot
"This has never been about who the nominee is," Paul Ryan said yesterday, explaining why his party will fight any Supreme Court justice nomination made by Barack Obama in 2016, and why they are specifically going to fight the nomination of Merrick Garland. This, from a party ostensibly dedicated to the Constitution. This response to the President's …
Continue reading How the Republicans Have Become the Political Equivalent of Batman’s Villains
This is the second installment in an ongoing series of articles exploring which Batman character Donald Trump resembles most. You can read the first installment here, in which I explain the impetus for this series and compare Donald Trump to Oswald "the Penguin" Cobblepot. Or if you're interested in reading D. F. Lovett’s fiction, you …
Continue reading Is the Scarecrow the Batman Villain Who Trump Resembles Most?
If you haven't heard, the latest complete failure at the box office was the flaccid reboot Pan, an attempt to create a franchise out of the Peter Pan story by starting with Mr. Pan's origin as a young boy on an adventure to Neverland. In which the villain is Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard and Peter's best …
On the first page of The Great Gatsby, narrator Nick Carraway tells us about a piece of advice his father gave him: "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” Carraway goes on to tell us that he attempts to …
We are close to the end of what is, quite possibly, the greatest franchise ever: The Fast and the Furious films. While I initially disliked these movies, (referring to the fifth installment, prior to actually seeing it, as "more-or-less the same shitty movie they made the last four times"), I had a change in opinion after …
Continue reading Why Vin Diesel Should Be the Next James Bond
Warning: Spoilers for all the Batman films, as well as a few Batman comics, abound in the following: The most troubling element of the Dark Knight Trilogy (as it is now known) is that the entirety of Gotham City does not realize that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Interestingly enough, a variety of characters figure it …
A 26 year old impoverished Slovakian man named Zoltan Kohari lives in an abandoned building, wearing a Batman costume he made himself. He hopes to help the police and recently was the subject of series of photos published by Reuters. Police in Brazil have officially hired a 50 year old Batman impersonator to fight crime …
Continue reading Bruce Wayne’s Privilege, and the Realities of Batman Incorporated
I may be going against the previous established theme of this blog by discussing a Christian Bale project that is actually happening, but it seems necessary to comment on the flurry of rumors regarding Joseph Gordon-Levitt potentially playing Alberto Falcone in The Dark Knight Rises. This guy. As a guy you haven't heard of (pictured …