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I haven't watched any of the films in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy over the past five years because, frankly, I don't care. Not the one with Heath Ledger. Not the one with Anne Hathaway. Not the other one. If you're like me, and vaguely aware of a Batman-ish cultural thingies, then this three-minute-long ScreenRant cut be for you.  

Oh, how I love an angry old white dude, and David Cronenberg is no exception. Over the summer, you may remember, the director went on the attack against "superhero movies," particularly The Dark Knight Rises (remember that?): "I think people who are saying, you know, Dark Knight Rises is, you know, supreme cinema art, I don't think they know what the fuck they're talking about." Bless his heart! I love it. I love him. I've only seen, like, three of his movies, but I love him. So angry! Rich and angry people: my favorite. Anyway, last month, in an interview with Movieline, Ol' Cronie announced that he's got a new thing he hates: Oscar season.

Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way first: The 39 Steps, because trains and chasing a MacGuffin piece of information and the moody moors of Scotland. Then there’s that straight-up Blade Runner sequence in the Shanghai skyscrapers and mirrors and oh man, the neon. Then a guy falls from the hundredth floor or whatever, so the new James Bond movie is also like Die Hard.

Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg's adaptation of the Don DeLillo novel, opens today following weeks of a post-cheating scandal media blitz that has blown up in its leading actor (and BlackBook cover boy) Robert Pattinson's face. He's hurting! He's confused! People are forcing him to eat on camera! And everyone forgot about poor David Cronenberg, the beloved director behind cult hits like Scanners, Dead Ringers, Videodrome (and also the unfortunate A Dangerous Method, but we'll let that one slide). What's a critically acclaimed director to do in order to get people to pay attention to him? Well, bash Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise, of course.

Dane Cook has apologized for being an asshole. More specifically, he has apologized for cracking wise about the Aurora shooting in a moment even Terry Schiavo could have told him was "too soon."

There's a Facebook campaign afoot to do something positive in the wake of Friday's Dark Knight Rises massacre which left 12 people dead and nearly 60 injured: a user is asking Christian Bale to don his Batman costume and visit injured children hospitalized after the Aurora, Colorado shooting.

The Dark Knight Rises star Christian Bale released a statement regarding Friday's massacre in Aurora, Colorado, during a screening of the film that killed 12 and almost 60 others.

The Dark Knight Rises director Christopher Nolan has released a statement last night in response to Friday's massacre in Aurora, Colorado, at a midnight screening of his film. Twenty-four-year-old gunman James Holmes killed 12 moviegoers and injured nearly 60 others.

AMC Theatres has banned costumes and fake weapons from its theaters following Friday's massacre at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, which left 12 dead and at least 59 injured. 

Give director Christopher Nolan some credit for refusing to settle with The Dark Knight Rises: while things are just as gritty and dour in old Gotham town this time around, they can in no way said to be realistic. And that’s not just in reference to the fact that Christian Bale’s Batman is hovering around in an impossibly space age aircraft for a good portion of every action sequence or that he’s seemed to pick up some heretofore unseen metahuman (if you’ll excuse the DC Comics house style, even if Nolan won’t) healing powers. No, the city is plunged into a bombastic, vaguely philosophical kind of anarchy for half the movie, like Lord of the Flies or Jose Saramago’s Blindness on a summer popcorn flick scale.