Bale… How to Finally Become a David Bowie Fan 1 Feb 201615 Feb 2016 It's a strange thing when a celebrity dies. Some people mourn for days or weeks or months. Others feel ostracized when it's someone whose work they didn't know, outside the…
Bale… Why Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman is A Bad Batman Movie 5 Jul 201517 Oct 2022 Note: I wrote this article back in 2015, and both my thoughts on the subject and the state of Batman films have evolved since it was published. I no longer…
Batman… Reserving Judgments is a Matter of Infinite Hope: Regarding Batman, The Joker, and Their Fans 20 May 201520 May 2015 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…
Game of Thrones… Why All the Bad News About True Detective is Actually Good News 12 May 201513 May 2015 Like all television shows that appeal to the intellectual and the obsessive, True Detective has gathered itself a menagerie of obsessive fans, the sort that remind you that fan is derived…
Batman… Why Madonna is The Joker 7 Feb 20128 Feb 2012 If there is one thing the internet agrees on regarding Super Bowl XLVI, it's that Clint Eastwood sounded like Bale does when Bruce Wayne is being Batman. That's about it.…