Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Gotham CityGotham City has been Batman's designated hangout for his entire career, and Nolan wasn't looking to change that in this go 'round. But he didn't want it to be some outlandish comic-book...

Third-Person OmniscientChristopher Nolan cut his teeth on experimenting with new types of narrative, most notably with Memento, which jumps backwards in time scene by scene until we find the answer...

Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Philosophical LiteratureWe're going with "adventure" because technically we don't consider "comic book movie" its own genre quite yet, and adventure still pretty much fi...

It's pretty simple: Batman's nickname is The Dark Knight, the same way Superman's is The Man of Steel. The title came pretty quickly in Batman's development: Detective Comics #45 in November of 194...

Oh boy. Get comfortable kids, because this one's gonna take a while…Seriously, have you ever seen an ending as bleak as this one? Some exist, to be sure, but they usually involve subtitles or dee...

RThe MPAA rating system has broadened PG-13 to the point where it means almost nothing. Case in point: a movie that features mass murder, chaos, death by pencil-in-the-eye, grotesque scarring and p...