Just a few days before the election in the US and my thoughts are turning to Christopher Nolan’s 2012 film, “The Dark Knight Rises”. I admit that for the first 3-4 years after “The Dark Knight Rises”, I thought it was a moderately disappointing entry into Nolan’s canon and the worst of the Dark Knight … Continue reading In Defense of “The Dark Knight Rises” →

Before seeing “Birds Of Prey”, I had never envisioned LA as being a potential real-world avatar for Gotham City, good old Batman's hometown - or even thought about it for that matter. Had I read about a movie shooting a version of Gotham City in Los Angeles, I would have guessed the reasoning would be … Continue reading Los Angeles as Gotham City: The locations of Cathy Yan’s “Birds of Prey” →