“This train carries saints and sinners. This train, carries losers and winners.” –Springsteen So much of the Oscar race is built on the precarious ledge of hope. Audiences hope the movies are good. Publicists hope for many nominations and a big payday. Film fans hope for their tastes to...
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One of the best pieces written on the tragedy in Aurora helps to put some much needed perspective on the story today, by Glen Weldon for NPR: True, comic-book heroes are childish notions. But this is exactly what lends them a simple, primal purity of meaning. They are a means by which we vicariously confront — and defeat — what threatens us. Batman is our agent, our...
“Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ I would like to express our profound sorrow at the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community. I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting but that they were there last night to watch a movie. I believe movies are one of the great American...
A word for the fans of the Dark Knight. It was all too easy for critics in this country to rally side by side in solidarity and stand up for each other when their negative reviews were met with “death threats.” The news spread far and wide that the fans were out of control. Those of us who live online already are familiar with the mob mentality that takes hold...
