The Dark Knight

While our partner blog TV Squad has John Scott Lewinski fighting his way through hordes of overweight Rorschachs and pre-pubescent Chun Lis we'd also like to highlight that Cinematical is in the house doing a bang-up job. The movie side of the annual pop-culture cavalcade opened with one of the biggest names in the history of film and what could very well be one of the biggest names in the future

Want to punch up your poker games? Check out this new Joker Poker set from DC Direct, with both regular and "vandalized" decks of cards that you may remember getting thrown around during "The Dark Knight." The poker chips feature the face of your favorite agent of chaos, and the entire set comes in a lockable alumnium carrying case...

Evidently, helming the current Batman movie franchise hasn't dimmed Christian Bale's interest in superherodom, as the versatile and gifted actor will play John Connor in a planned Terminator sequel from Warner Bros. for the summer of 2009. I like the idea of the Terminator movies forging ahead post-Schwarzenegger into new territory, and Bale is a terrific, chameleon-like actor who gives depth to m

If the rumors posted today on Batman-on-Film are true, you'll get a sneak peek at the Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, at IMAX theaters come Christmas time. The scoop: A seven-minute "prologue" of The Dark Knight, featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker, will preceed the Will Smith actioner, I Am Legend, in IMAX theatres...

That's the gist of Saturday's Chicago Sun-Times piece about the pros and cons of lensing superpowered summer blockbusters in the Windy City, specifically The Dark Knight and Wanted filming in the Loop. Leslie Baldacci took the "Dark Knight movie is cool" approach, and why not considering bean-counters estimate the region took in an estimated $50 million alone on Batman, employing as many