Superheroes make for great pop psychology with their masks and secret identities and whatnot. It lets all us armchair Freuds go on about psychological scars and whether the real mask is the one the...

As you doubtless noticed, Harvey Dent "makes his own luck" through use of a rare two-headed coin. The explosion that turns him into Two-Face scars one side of it, turning it from an easy way to win...

Of all the overt symbols in the movie, the fire truck seriously scares us the most. This is the, um, creative roadblock that the Joker sets up at the start of that fantastic car chase. A heavily-ar...

Everyone in this movie is flirting with the dark side, not least of whom the guy who spends all of his time in black. Like Harvey, Batman breaks the rules when he finds it necessary, though unlike...

We've talked about broken rules and in fact the film itself seems to be all about what happens when you start breaking them. Let's talk about the one rule that doesn't get broken, and what it means...

As a plot device, the Bat Signal is kind of cool. We live in an age saturated with countless ways to communicate: everything from Skype to Twitter to Internet sites letting us chat with anyone in t...