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Screenshot: Warner Bros. In the umpteen years leading up to the premiere of The Batman, the film’s trailers all wanted to make one thing abundantly unclear: what the Riddler, played by Paul Dano, looked like under his mask. Although I stayed away from spending three hours in a theater to watch the newest cinematic outing … Read More “Batman Movie Riddler Spoiler Paul Dano’s Face” »
DEAL OF THE WEEK Pember Does Double at Pantheon In his first acquisition at Pantheon, David Treuer preempted two books by journalist Mary Annette Pember. The publisher said the North American rights agreement was struck after a nine-publisher auction and includes the author’s debut work of nonfiction, about “her mother’s experience at a Native American boarding school, their … Read More “Week of April 18, 2022” »
DEAL OF THE WEEK Doubleday Prays at Atkinson’s ‘Shrines’ Doubleday’s Lee Boudreaux took U.S. rights to Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety. The publisher said the novel will have a 150,000-copy first printing and is slated for September 27. Set in 1926 London, it follows Chelsea nightlife impresario Nellie Coker, who will do anything for her … Read More “Week of March 28, 2022” »
Don’t give us that side-eye, Bats.Image: Warner Bros. More so than almost every other superhero movie in the past few decades, Matt Reeves’ The Batman is what it is. There’s room for the story to continue, sure, but the movie stands on its own without huge teases for the future or connections to other films. … Read More “The Batman Director Matt Reeves Surprise Ending Scene Meaning” »
Riddle me this: What’s brooding and black and soars above the congested superhero pack? The Batman, Warner Bros’ fourth cinematic reboot of the famed DC character, which fumes with more grim, gritty rage than all of its predecessors combined. While it may not achieve the peaks of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 franchise high-water mark The Dark … Read More “‘The Batman’ Is the Best Batman Movie Since ‘The Dark Knight’” »
In The Batman, Matt Reeves’ slick, overlong, majestically moody superhero spectacular, Robert Pattinson really puts the goth into Gotham City’s chief protector. His eyes slathered in mascara like Robert Smith (or The Crow, another nocturnal winged avenger), this version of the DC crime fighter zips around town on a motorcycle to the non-diegetic accompaniment of … Read More “A flawed but striking pop-noir blockbuster” »
For more than 80 years, The Penguin has smoked like a chimney. As anatomically confusing as always, his classic look was that of a 1920s socialite: Top hat, monocle, and, yes, cigarette clutched by elongated cigarette holder. Smoking is to Oswald Cobblepot what breaking the legs of a desperate, hungry criminal is to Batman. And … Read More “Colin Farrell says Penguin does not smoke in The Batman” »
Eminent Hindi writer Yashpal (1903-1976) studied at the National College, Lahore along with Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Bhagvati Charan Vohra. He joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) under the leadership of Chandrashekhar Azad and was imprisoned for over six years for his role in the armed struggle for India’s independence. A poster advertising a … Read More “What Is The Place of A Woman In A Revolutionary Movement?” »
The BatmanPhoto: Warner Bros. We’re roughly a month away from the latest incarnation of the Caped Crusader’s big-screen debut. The 10th live-action version of the character, The Batman, is one of the most anticipated films of the year and is most certainly Warner Bros.’ most significant franchise opportunity in some time. Heck, they’ve already given … Read More “Robert Pattinson teases The Batman sequels” »
Let’s get a closer look at this baddies. Image: Warner Bros. You don’t have to be a comic book or movie fan to know the names Riddler, Penguin, or Catwoman. Villains in the Batman universe are as famous, if not more so, than the Caped Crusader himself. And so someone who hasn’t been following every … Read More “The Batman Villains: Riddler, Catwoman, Penguin Revealed” »
