Christopher Nolan

What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

Les Misérables

The follies of 1832

The Way We Die Now

Movie violence has never been better — or more reckless.

Cancer Bats: "A Total B-Horror Movie Type Plot"

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find meaning in the oddest monikers. The meme goes, "Some men just want to watch the world burn." I couldn't agree more, so when you name a song "Hail Destroyer" I am ready to listen ... More >>

Wachowski Overload

Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies for the Sake of Watching All of the Wachowskis' Movies

Centuries of Too Muchness

Your past lives probably didn't love Cloud Atlas, either.

The Bourne Legacy

Who's the new guy?

Your Ultimate Batman Batsoundtrack Batplaylist

No doubt some of you are sitting bleary and bloodshot from seeing an overnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises, and I am jealous of you. I didn't think to buy tickets early so now I will have to wait until like, next week to see it. First World Problems, dude. The ending of the Christopher Nolan ... More >>

UPDATED: While We Watched Batman, People In Denver Suburb Killed

Update: In an incredible coincidence, The San Antonio woman killed by a gunman near Denver last night, Jessica Ghawi, had been at the Toronto mall shooting in early June, where one person was killed and seven wounded, according to her blog. She said she had an "odd feeling" and left the mall moments ... More >>

Why So Serious?

Self-important and overstuffed, The Dark Knight Rises feels like Batman forever.

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na... Playlist!

I just got back from Comicpalooza and have Batman on the brain. I mean, I always have Batman on the brain because he's freakin' Batman, but now it's reached the jumping from furniture to furniture with a blanket tied around my next screaming, "I am vengeance! I am the night!" phase. Plus, I have a ... More >>

2012 Summer Guide: Summer Movie Preview

Pop Rocks: Twilight vs. Harry Potter And 9 Other Geek Throwdowns

Still the only crossover I'd pay to see.​Anyone watch the MTV Movie Awards? Anyone? I didn't think so, mostly because I suspect the majority of Hair Balls/Art Attack readers are over the age of 12. And while I have no intention of revisiting the whole "'Music?"Television line of jokes, I did ... More >>

Danny Elfman's Ten Greatest Soundtracks

​Last Tuesday, Warner Bros. music released a 25th anniversary box set commemorating the orchestral soundtrack work Danny Elfman has done for Tim Burton. Elfman, the former front man for the wonderfully weird art-pop band Oingo Boingo, was first recruited by Burton to score his film Pee Wee's B ... More >>

Gothic Council Debates Best Comic Book Character

​Gothtopia has been tapped to be the eyes and ears of the Houston Press at Comicpalooza. Considering that the first thing that gets put up whenever we move to a new apartment is a limited-edition poster advertising Sandman: Brief Lives - which by the way hangs over a small bookshelf dedicated ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Pocket Full Of Kryptonite

Lindsay Lohan's in my next movie? Just leave the bottle.​I'd done a decent job putting the fact they're rebooting the Superman franchise *again* next year out of my mind, that is until a flurry of recent Man of Steel-related news items popped up in the last week or so. "Wait," you're saying, ... More >>

J. Hoberman's Top Ten Movies of 2010

Bun B, Rap Superhero, Feeds The Needy... And What Else?

​Bun B is many things: Beyond-influential rapper, college professor, entrepreneur and trillman (totally just made that word up). But above all else, he's long been recognized as a decent, caring and wise person. It's why any time his name is added in the tagline of anything good or worthwhile ... More >>

Riddle Me This: Who Will Be The Next Batman Villain?

And now we'll never know...​Forget all that talk about natural disasters and midterm elections, yesterday we finally got some really important news: The Dark Knight Rises. That's the title director Christopher Nolan is running with for his third go-round with the Batman franchise he successf ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Remake My Day 2 (The Remakening)

Honestly, do you really care?​I write a lot about Hollywood's obsession with remakes because I'm a movie buff, first and foremost, and because as a "writer" it's easy to milk an announcement of the latest atrocity from Platinum Dunes for 750 indignant words regarding the creative demise of Hollywo ... More >>

Win Preview Passes To Inception, And Ponder Our Five Questions About It

One of these people is a better actor than the other​Inception seems like the best bet yet to save a summer full of dreary by-the-books blockbusters. Has there been anything released yet that's made you want to go to the movies? (We admit, we've never quite gotten into the whole Toy Story th ... More >>

Why So Serious? Let 'Em See Your... Joker Face!

​You know what's scarier than the Lady Gaga sex doll? The thought of Lady Gaga being somehow linked to Heath Ledger's Joker. So while the world impatiently for news regarding the third installment in Christopher Nolan's reboot of the Batman films, there's a couple of kids out there who decided ... More >>

SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Best Films of 2008

Looking back at Che, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E and many others, and looking ahead to 2009

The Prestige

Christian Bale simmers in The Prestige

Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight

Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

Christian Bale

What won't the best actor of his generation do for a role? Not much.

2006 Year In Review: Taking the Long View

Children of Men and the value of an unedited shot

Welcome to the Grand Illusion

Memento director plumbs the depths of magic and loss

Comic Relief

It ain't quite Fantastic, but it'll do in a pinch

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Twisted Logic

The Recruit is full of surprises -- too many, in fact

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

Sleepless in Alaska

A frazzled Al Pacino tangles with a psychotic Robin Williams in Insomnia

Death to Patch Adams

Robin Williams returns to his comic-anarchic roots

Hero and Villain

Miguel Piñero, and the film about him, capture the beautiful and the ugly

White Stripe Fever

Joy Ride parlays a CB radio prank into genuine highway horror

Nothing About Ado Much

The backward narrative of Memento is little more than gimmicky

Tailer Made

Following takes a stalker out of the noir shadows