Batman Begins

Genius of mystery and intrigue Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, FOLLOWING, INSOMNIA) helms this prequel to the Batman films based on the DC Comics series, explaining how Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale)--the billionaire prince of Gotham whose parents were killed in an alleyway mugging--transformed into the crime-fighting superhero. With flashbacks to his privileged childhood, young Master Wayne, as he is called by the butler Alfred (Michael Caine), develops a terrible fear of bats when he falls through the backyard garden into a hidden cave. As a young adult, Wayne lives among the League of Shadows, a martial arts group in the mountains of Asia. His leaders Ra's al Ghul (Ken Watanabe) and Henri Ducard (Liam Neeson) teach him strength, endurance, and--unfortunately--evil, against which he naturally rebels. Returning to Gotham and reinstating himself as a dapper socialite and the rightful heir to his parents' enterprise, Wayne quickly devises his secret identity, commanding help from the gadgetry expert Lucius Fox ...

We Have a Winner: "Batman Begins"

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The "Batman Begins" case mod nabs the crown in ExtremeTech's third annual case mod contest. The winning prize: enough components to build a Core 2 gaming rig. Congrats to our winner Alex Wiley for such an excellent mod.

Entertainment Weekly Movie Review: The Prestige (B+)

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We think of magic as puckish, elegant, lighter than air, but in The Prestige, an aggressively devious sleight-of-hand thriller directed by Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins), the magic, even at its most clever, is powered by currents — sometimes literal ones — of electricity and danger.

Movie Review : Superman Returns (2006)

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Sorry, Superman, but Batman is the badass. Christian Bale, star of last summer's Batman Begins, didn't mince words or spare feelings on June 3rd when he accepted the MTV Movie Award for Best Hero from Brandon Routh, star of this summer's Superman Returns. Bale put audiences to the test: Are you with the haunted Dark Knight or the saint inside the Man of Steel?