Batman Returns
The Caped Crusader returns, ready to do battle with the Penguin (Danny DeVito), a freak who has risen from Gotham City’s sewage works, and Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is intrigued…
Batman: The Jack Nicholson Show
Michael Keaton. Photo: Warner Tim Burton, a former Disney animator and director of a wild horror comedy called Beetlejuice (1988), suddenly found himself helming a major blockbuster. He carried a…
Batman Begins: A Very Dark Knight
Christian Bale. Photo: Warner As it turned out, the definitive adaptation of “Batman” was not made in 1989. The Tim Burton movie showed a Caped Crusader quite different from the…