"The Dark Knight Rises" "is a bold apologia for free-market capitalism..."

"... a graphic depiction of the tyranny and violence inherent in every radical leftist movement from the French Revolution to Occupy Wa...

"Both as Wayne and as super-Wayne he seems indifferent, as the films themselves are, to the activities of little people..."

"... and to the claims of the everyday, preferring to semi-purse his lips, as if preparing to whistle for an errant dog, and stare pens...

"Colorado theater shooting suspect was neuroscience Ph.D student."

At the University of Colorado-Denver. [James] Holmes is suspected of walking into an Aurora theater's midnight showing of "Dark Kni...

"A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded movie theater... a midnight opening of... 'The Dark Knight Rises'..."

"... killing 14 people and injuring at least 50 others...." Moviegoers didn't know what was happening and some thought the att...

Batman!

(Via Boing Boing .)

"Then Lee's beautiful voice attempts not to be incredibly dorky singing the incredibly dorky song about Chris O'Donnell's plastic nipples."

"This song, have you heard it?... It is one of the most mystifying songs in the history of words." Yeah, the original "Kiss F...

"Mr. Ledger magically and mysteriously disappears beneath the skin of his lean, sinewy character."

"It is a great screen performance, as good as the best of Marlon Brando and Sean Penn." Dead at 28. Heath Ledger. IN THE COMMENTS:...

Bat, man, man.

Stone carvings in Brooklyn Heights.

"American Idol" -- tonight's show: The British Invasion.

Okay, this is the perfect show for me. The songs are the British Invasion songs, with Peter Noone tutoring the boys and LuLu for the girls. ...

Exploding head syndrome!

It's just one of a number of unusual things . And what do "My Head is Spinning," "Now, Stand Back For Your Own Safety!,”...

Sophia and her older man.

Sophia Loren's husband Carlo Ponti just died -- at the age of 94. Ponti was married to his first wife, Giuliana, when he met Loren, who...

Madison, last night and now.

Last night, on State Street, the sports bar looked warmly Christmasy: Across the street, a woman sold handmade jewelry from a pushcart parke...

Comments, comments, comments.

I'm surpassingly sick of this comments thread from yesterday, and I'm not even going to read all the commentary on other blogs . Th...

Leaving Teton Village.

Time to hit the road again, checking out of the posh hotel I will now identify: the Jackson Hole Four Seasons . (Hey, it's 35° here!) I...

Simulblogging the Oscars.

7 (Central Time). A slow-moving intro for Jon Stewart, showing Oscar hosts of the past declining to re-host. We see Billy Crystal and Chris ...

Contemplating change.

I'm contemplating selling my big old house, which I've lived in for 20 years, and moving into a condo very near the Capitol, in a be...

Some movie clichés recently viewed.

"Pieces of April" was playing on Showtime's HD channel last night just as I was in the mood to settle in for a little TV. So ...

The politics of the zombie.

Manohla Dargis writes about "Land of the Dead": With each of Mr. Romero's zombie movies, the walking dead have grown progress...

"Is Batman a Republican?"

The Anchoress asks. Like me , she heard the villain's name pronounced "Al Gore."

On blogging about Batman without comic book expertise.

Anthony Rickey has a problem with this post of mine about “Batman Begins." He seems to think I must have gone to the movie knowing no...