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Penguin vs. Batman Debate: Is John McCain The Penguin?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


Cenk Uygur

Look at how prescient the creators of the television series Batman wound up being this many years later.

Did This Knight Have To Be So Dark?

Mike Ragogna | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment


Mike Ragogna

With The Dark Knight, we get such a boundary-breaking piece of pulp whose noir is so effective that, we most likely will see comic books and their relative movie and TV franchises adopt an even darker tone.

Batman & Robin (1997): Why George Clooney is the Worst Batman

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.22.2008 | Entertainment


Erik Lundegaard

Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin pulls off a neat trick: it turns Batman into a joke without being funny at all.

Batman Forever (1995): I'm OK, Batman's OK

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.21.2008 | Entertainment


Erik Lundegaard

You look at the cast of Batman Forever and wonder "What went wrong?" Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face? Nicole Kidman as the love interest? Sexy! Instead Jones goes way over-the-top and Kidman reads like she's in a 1-900 ad.

Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment


Erik Lundegaard

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.