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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]