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An Evening with Batman and Robin batman

An Evening with Batman and Robin

Alex M. Parker June 16, 2021

The forgotten story about how Batman and Robin fever swept college campuses in the summer and fall...

The Curious Case of Harley Quinn

Alex M. Parker December 2, 2019

A look at the new Harley Quinn TV series

Review: ‘Joker’ Is a Disturbing Look at a Broken Man Joker

Review: ‘Joker’ Is a Disturbing Look at a Broken Man

Chris Slater October 8, 2019

This is not a super hero movie. There is nobody in a spandex costume. Nobody has super...

DC Movies Could Learn a lot From Woody Allen

DC Movies Could Learn a lot From Woody Allen

Roland Dodds August 9, 2016

DC needs to go back to film school and study one of the masters.

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Films That Could Have Been

Roland Dodds August 13, 2015

There are far too many science fiction films that left us asking: what happened? Thankfully, three recent...

Crooked Cops, Judge Dredd, and Arkham Origins IFRL-TLC-Patterns-44314455264_2ba341170f_o

Crooked Cops, Judge Dredd, and Arkham Origins

Ethan Gach January 8, 2014

Jaybird and I discuss the latest installment in Warner Brothers Studios' acclaimed Batman video game series: Arkham...

5 People Who Should Have Played Batman Instead of Ben Affleck IFRL-Mindiv-Fantasy-loc24

5 People Who Should Have Played Batman Instead of Ben Affleck

Ethan Gach August 23, 2013

The news that Ben Affleck has been tapped to play Batman in Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman movie...

Iron Man 3: One Big Joke IFRL-Mindiv-adrien-olichon-761777-unsplash

Iron Man 3: One Big Joke

Ethan Gach May 6, 2013

Tony Stark suffers from PTSD, Pepper Pots is mad because he bought her a giant stuffed rabbit...

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DC Comics Gets Political with “The Movement”

Ethan Gach May 1, 2013

“Yer goin’ all soft on me, Luis, I swear,” growls one cop to his partner. He then...

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How The Avengers Succeeds

Ethan Gach May 8, 2012

“They’re a mash-up; they’re insane,” Whedon says. “But the beauty of that is as exciting as the...

InMD in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I don't know why you'd think Trump is scared but one hopes this combined with the strongly worded 4t…
Mike on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaIsrael can take him in. He's a father of 3 or whatever. I'm guessing Hamas has people that are fathe…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s Residence Attacked, Suspect ArrestedSo, yes, that sounds plausible, but also...no. It's not _just_ that. There are a lot of people who h…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a “whatabout” for every single “precedent” that the Democ…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I’m pretty sure that we’re *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, “the pr…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025As far as I can tell, the Republicans have a "whatabout" for every single "precedent" that the Democ…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I'm pretty sure that we're *ALL* members of the press. When the First Amendment was written, "the pr…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Far as I can tell, most press conferences are not open to the general public. That seems to be what…
David TC in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I have to say, while I am not a Free Speech Abolutist, I am very confused. I didn't know you could a…
David TC in reply to pillsy on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025I think it's worth reminding people that the Republicans are setting precedent after precedent that…