Or how two of comic’s “coolest” heroes are overexposed jerks and mascots for every internet douche ever. As the middle child in a big blended family full of step siblings and very close cousins I had an obsession with setting myself apart. Particularly from my older sister. If she liked vanilla I liked chocolate. If [...]

It’s happening again. Some of you are too young to remember, but as soon as The Dark Knight came out and proved this Batman thing might have some juice in it after all, the speculation started. The Riddler? Deadshot? Robin Williams as Hugo Strange? And now it’ll all start up again. And with the fact [...]

So throughout The Dark Knight Rises, the train has been coming into the station. In Begins, Bruce Wayne became Batman; “yeah, sure, just until I destroy all crime in Gotham.” In The Dark Knight, he actually has an exit strategy. Bust Lau, take down the Joker, hand the reins over to Harvey Dent, get with [...]

It feels like only yesterday that we began this strange, funny journey down Batman lane. I had been lazy and forgetful and gone mildly insane on allergy pills (THAT SHIT IS NO JOKE, Y’ALL!) and as such, had gotten a late start. This meant that what was supposed to have been a reasonably paced jaunt [...]

It is only the things we love that break our hearts. I remember exactly where I was when I heard Heath Ledger had died. I remember exactly what I was wearing when I saw the Dark Knight for the first time. I remember the first thought I had as the credits rolled and the impossibility [...]

The first thing I felt when I hit play on Batman Begins was a tremendous sense of relief. Yes, this was largely in part, because I had just suffered through two back-to-back late night viewings of films that, upon further consideration, really ought to be labeled as some of the worst ever made – Joel [...]

While I have long been an indiscriminate and voracious reader, the same can not be said of my relationships with films. I will read, in dire straits, shampoo bottles and memoirs penned by right wing maniacs – anything at all. My eyes are perpetually hungry for words. For moving images, the same can not be [...]

Once, as a little kid, I ran a particularly high fever, and as a result was forced to stay at home in bed while my dad took my sister and my brothers out for ice cream. I bawled my eyes out, because as we all know, not being able to eat ice cream is a [...]

I have to admit I was wary at the prospect of covering 1993′s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. That sense of “meeehhhh?” came from a couple of places. First off, it didn’t matter what came next on my list – in many ways, having to part ways with Michael Keaton (my personal Jesus Batman) was [...]

I begin this installment with the most hushed and most reverential tones, for today is a sacred day at the ol’ Fempop: Today, is Rex Manning Day we discuss 1992′s Batman Returns. This sequel-in-name-only saw the return of both Burton and Keaton, the masterful makeup work of Stan Winston, the revelation of Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman, [...]