Heath Ledger the Joker

The Obama Joker Poster

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

I didn't scream for the Obama Joker posters to be yanked down for a Hitlerian banned-book bonfire. The call was for the individual slapping the posters up to publicly ID themselves.

Dark Knight, Bright Extinguished Star

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 05.25.2011

Charles Karel Bouley

No Batman film would tick without a villain, and in the best personification of any comic villain Heath Ledger takes the prize (and most likely an Oscar). Not because he's dead -- because he's that good.