There’s no argument I can imagine that director Matt Reeves’s The Batman, the first in what’s undoubtedly meant to be a new ongoing series built around DC Comics’ second-most iconic superhero, is “the best” Batman film to date. But I think no argument is necessary that it is “the most” Batman film, and I’m including […]

The entity that is MTV has obviously changed considerably since the channel first killed the radio star in 1981. While anyone whose birth year starts with a “2” might only know it for reality series or teen soaps, MTV’s historical prominence as a conduit between music and mainstream culture cannot be overstated. While their previous […]

TIM: The romantic comedy was a mainstay of the commercial film marketplace for decades, stretching all the way back to the silent era, but in the 21st Century, the genre has taken a terrible beating. Theatrically-released romcoms have become quite a rare beast indeed, which is the first thing that makes the new Marry Me […]

Video game adaptations are, one sometimes suspects, inherently doomed. Either the source material doesn’t have any story and so one has to be welded on crudely, or it has enough story to cover a 20-hour experience that has to be basically started from scratch to fit feature length, and in either case, the story is […]