Review: ‘The Batman’ is a Perfect Batman Film

I am a big superhero fan. I have been since I was young, due to my father loving all things sci-fi and comic book related and passing that onto me. Like most other people, Batman has always been my go-to. All forms of Batman are unique, with different directors, different men under the cowl, different villains, and varying messages and themes. Every Batman iteration is different even Batman from the same iteration but separate films are different from each other. I could go on for a while about the original live-action film with Adam West, or how Tim Burton’s Batman series was screwed up after he was dropped as director, or Christopher Nolan’s near-perfect trilogy that, while amazing, ignored a lot of what made Batman truly himself in place of better villainy and theming. 

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Review: ‘The French Dispatch’ Is a Love Letter to Writers Who Cover the Extraordinary

There is a joy in settling down to read a special newspaper or magazine article, one where you know the writer is cataloging the unordinary. Something about an everyday medium that normally covers topics and records events we consider commonplace (sports, politics, violent crimes, etc.) instead chronicling astonishment and intrigue is uniquely appealing—perhaps because it reminds us that the world is not constantly a cold, dull place. Two of my favorite examples of these are “The ballad of the Chowchilla bus kidnapping,” which recounts the hijacking of a school bus and the nationwide fervor that followed, and “Pellet Ice is the Good Ice,” which takes a deep dive into a kind of ice cube that’s hard to come by and unrivaled in quality. 

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Review: ‘The Goldfinch’ is All Smoke and Mirrors

There are several factors filmmakers take into consideration when creating a movie with an adapted screenplay, some of which being faithfulness to page, accurate casting, and more. These kinds of movies can be a tricky thing for filmmakers to navigate, and sometimes it’s a select few factors that make the difference between a really great and a really bad film. Unfortunately, The Goldfinch falls into the category of the latter. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name written by Donna Tarrt, The Goldfinch is a wannabe film that leads you on a confusing journey with ultimately no payoff.

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