Picturenose

Today’s news starts with something I found quite surprising. In this Associated Press piece on backstage.com, the late Heath Ledger’s performance as The Joker in the upcoming The Dark Knight (2008) is compared (favourably) to one Mr J Nicholson’s turn in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). They even go so far as to suggest he may even be nominated posthumously for an Oscar for his efforts. Regular readers will know what a huge fan of the new Batman I am - but I can’t help but wonder if it’s going to be that good a performance. True, he was shaping up to be a very fine actor indeed and his death was a loss to cinema - but a comic-book creation? I think that’d be a first (unless of course you, the reader, know different).

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Today’s news roundup brings you clips for your viewing pleasure. I say ‘clips’ because one of the many things I hate about the internet is the ‘teaser trailer’. What dick ever thought that one up? In fact, if I’d bothered to sit down and stitch together all the Dark Knight ‘teasers’ I’d seen, I’d have seen pretty much the whole movie by now. Hardly a tease when you can see it all, I say. Complaining over (for now). Being on the subject of The Dark Knight does segue quite neatly into the fact that yours truly will be at the press screening next week, so check back for a blow-by-blow report on Wednesday (9 July 2008). I don’t really need to point you to yet another clip from the film, as I guess that if you haven’t already seen one, you a) don’t like The Batman or b) don’t have a computer.

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