The Dark Knight returns

In the pantheon of Batman stories there’s a handful that come up every time someone ranks the best. The Dark Knight Returns, Batman Year One, and The Long Halloween usually all make the list. And then there’s the Killing Joke. The Killing Joke stands out from the crowd for a couple of reasons. For one thing, unlike the above mentioned stories, The Killing Joke is a graphic novel and not a collection of previously individual issues. For another, The Killing Joke isn’t really a Batman story. Sure Batman is in it, he even plays an important part;but The Killing Joke is above all else, a Joker story.

Details on Christopher Nolan‘s The Dark Knight Rises are being kept very secretive but there are many people doing their best to find out as much as they can, as soon as they can. Technically this is just a rumour and I wouldn’t even really call it a spoiler but sources reached out to HitFix, …

“If it can be written, or thought,” said Stanley Kubrick, “it can be filmed.”  Kubrick could very well have been articulating the credo for every cinematic explorer of the fantastic since Georges Melies. Ironically, Kubrick – who was second to none in pushing the limits of filmmaking technology – several times found himself in the position of …