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The Dark Knight has recorded the biggest box office movie release in history with amazing earnings.
The Dark Knight beat out the old record-holder, Spider-Man 3, which took in $151.1 million just last year.
The Dark Knight has proven to be the movie to see this summer, starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, and others.
It topped [...]
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Formerly known as the independent actor with presence, Aaron Eckhart has crossed over to the blockbuster side. He does that with convincing movie-star style while playing Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight.
Opening on Friday, the Christopher Nolan follow-up to the franchise reboot Batman Begins is highly anticipated by fans, especially because [...]
There’s a beautiful high-angle shot, early in The Dark Knight, that looks down on Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in full Batman regalia as he perches atop a Gotham skyscraper, surveying the city he lives to protect, then leaping off and spreading his majestic bat wings to swoop down into the night. Bruce’s trajectory is also [...]
Movie theaters have sometimes opened their doors at odd hours for their most highly anticipated films, say, an entry in the “Star Wars” series, and midnight shows have become part of the summer blockbuster ritual.
This time much of the fan interest has been driven by word of a career-topping performance by Heath Ledger, the Australian [...]
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I have grown up with mean green & he is the one marvel character you can’t scale down because of strength. The movie brought out the true hulk not only his strength but his ability to speak that the other movie completely left out.
All the characters in this movie were the perfect cast to put [...]
Sequels are so 20th century. So are remakes. What we’re getting now are do-overs. Two years ago we got a new “Superman.” Next month we get “The Dark Knight,” which will be the second in a new series of “Batman” movies. Even an old-schooler like Sylvester Stallone got into the spirit earlier this year, with [...]
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“By the pricking of my thumbs, something celluloid this way comes.â€
Like the carnival at the center of Ray Bradbury’s classic 1962 novel, the annual arrival of the Summer Movie season is like a decidedly deceptive big top temptress. Every year, Hollywood unveils a carefully planned cavalcade of thrills, spills, laughs, and gaffs, and lemming-like we [...]
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What starts with Anne Michaels and ends with Vin Diesel and has Indiana Jones in the middle of it? Yes, it’s our old friend the Summer Movie Season, a time of superheroes, blockbusters and M. Night Shyamalan, a time when David Mamet rubs shoulders with Adam Sandler and a documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib [...]
The unjolly green giant, born from a botched gamma bomb experiment in a 1962 comic book, belongs to an elite class of superhero. In Marvels stable of characters, which includes the X-Men and the Silver Surfer, only Spider-Man outsells him. The Hulk, along with his emotionally withdrawn alter ego, Dr. Bruce Banner, has [...]
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THE TAKE. Thriller about an armored-truck guard who tries to pull his life together after a robbery. With John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez. Director: Brad Furman (1:36). R: Violence, sexuality, language, drug use. At the Clearview 62nd.Life isn’t easy for character actors. John Leguizamo has been a reliable member of countless supporting casts, but when was [...]
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