Tom Waits and Don Lane have really bad screen chemistry. Lane’s sincere admiration and Waits’s well meaning sacrilege clash like Jesus in the Parthenon. Of course neither is a holy deity, but Waits is more 40s screen star gone wrong than ever before, while Lane sort of acts on as Mother Hen, or as Tom [...]

Arguably the most hated (and yet beloved) villain in comic book history, the Joker has had his fair share of highs and lows over the 70+ years he’s been featured in print, television and film. In showcasing his storied history, writer Daniel Wallace’s The Joker: A Visual History of the Clown Prince of Crime looks [...]

We have Christopher Nolan (and to an increasing extent, his younger brother Jonathan) to thank for a few ass-kickingly sublime cinematic stories of the last decade. Reverse storytelling placing the audience into the same frame of mind as a truth-seeking amnesiac (Memento). Pursuit of greatness in a dog-eat-dog world, not to mention David Bowie in [...]