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Batman

A collection of 3 posts
On Movies & Media

Barbarians in Charge: Robert Joustra on The Dark Knight Rises

Robert Joustra, the senior editor of Comment magazine [http://www.cardus.ca/comment/about/] and a contributor to this book [http://www.amazon.com/God-Global-Order-Religion-American/dp/1602582505], emailed me this morning in response to my review of The Dark Knight Rises. Here are his thoughts...
23 Jul 2012 1 min read
On Movies & Media

Diagnosis: A Disappointing Dark Knight

This weekend I read a lot of reviews of The Dark Knight Rises to see how other people were taking it. Two pieces in particular were especially damning, pretty much nailing the coffin shut on Christopher Nolan's Batman... and maybe on Nolan's ouvre as a whole, for this moviegoer.
22 Jul 2012 1 min read
Film Reviews

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Inevitably, answering the summons of the summertime box office, The Dark Knight Rises. And so does the sun. Thus, we finally get to see Batman duking it out with bad guys in broad daylight. But the daylight reveals other things as well, like the vastness of the city, which gives us that much more tr
20 Jul 2012 11 min read
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