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, [...]

It is a fascinating thing to watch Tim Burton’s foray into the Bat-Franchise – a two-part adventure beginning with 1989′s Batman. The film is part homage to the those  films  that came before it, and part complete series reboot. The project that would eventually become ’89 Batman, began as a kind of nuts script by [...]

I have to admit that after the grey-toned, slowly-paced, half-hearted, lackluster stabs at Batman made by the Batman serials of the 1940s, 1966′s Batman, based on the popular (and now camp classic) Batman TV series which ran from 1966-1968, was a nicely placed jolt to my slowly dying critical faculties. In fact, I was so [...]

We’re in the second leg of The Batman Project – as far as you’re concerned. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve watched three more films, and am nearly caught up in addition to deciding that watching two Batman serials in rapid succession is maybe the best bad decision a person can ever make. I’m also [...]