Dark Knight Rises: The Bat vs. Bane

Christian Bale. Photo: Warner On the night of this film's intensely anticipated premiere, a 24-year-old man attacked a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado and murdered 12 people. The horrendous act…

Phantom Menace: Meet Young Anakin

Liam Neeson, Ray Park and Ewan McGregor. Photo: 20th Century Fox According to Merriam Webster, the word "anticipation" means among other things "pleasurable expectation". They might as well have included…

Schindler’s List: A Place of Protection

Liam Neeson and Ben Kingsley. Photo: Universal In 1993, Schindler’s List was a seminal event, one of those things you simply had to experience. I was in school and every…

Love Actually 

Writer Richard Curtis’s directing debut is one big, loveable mess, a romantic comedy with a huge cast of people who keep falling in love with each other. There are too…

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…