The Prestige Few movies are capable of diving audiences quite like The Prestige, the sort of movie with no startling defects except for a single miscalculation egregious enough to ruin everything. While beautifully staged and executed with all the theatricality and deception one might expect from a story of feuding magicians, Nolan overestimated just how [...]
Batman Begins Eight years after Schumacher’s “bat nipple” debacle, a reboot of the Batman character seemed well due. And as had been the case with Spider-Man and X-Men, a more acclaimed and educated director than usual was selected to handle the reinvention. Nolan threw out the garish nonsense that left audience’s of the previous two [...]