Hindustan Times
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ave recently come to two reluctant conclusions about my home viewing habits. The first is that though I have scores of movies on DVD, I don’t really watch them that much. The discs just pile up, unwatched and unloved, and often I forget I even have them Party girls: BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous is about two middle-aged hipsters.
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, September 5, 2008 at 12:43 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged American TV shows, Babylon, Batman, Baywatch, BBC Entertainment, British TV shows, Charlie's Angels, Dr Who, DVD, Mad Men
I know that Lounge has already devoted an entire issue to the new Batman movie (The Dark Knight). So forgive me for going over some of the same territory again. My defence is that I’m not writing about Batman but about his most famous enemy: The Joker. Of course you know who The Joker is. The hype surrounding the release of The Dark Knight has focused less on Christian Bale, the British actor who makes an excellent Batman and more on Heath Ledger’s portrayal of The Joker. Partly, this is because Ledger died some months before the film was released. His sudden demise in dramatic circumstances led to a long and tedious debate about the ethics of using his likeness in the movie’s publicity campaign.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Monday, August 25, 2008 at 12:26 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Alan Moore, Batman, Batman TV show, Frank miller, Grant Morrison, Graphic novel, Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight, THe joker
Batman Returns
Superheroes are back. Now that Iron Man, with Robert Downey Jr in the title role, has been such a, well, superhit, Hollywood is ready to film nearly every comic book ever written. The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Batman Begins, is expected next week. A new version of The Hulk, with Edward Norton in the Bruce Banner role, has eased memories of Ang Lee’s terrible 2003 adaptation which wasted Eric Bana (he played Banner).
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 1:22 am
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Batman, George Reeves, Hollywood, Spiderman, Superhero, Superman
