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The Dark Knight: The Movie's Out, The Reviews Are In, And Heath Ledger Is Amazing

You are probably well aware that the newest Batman movie, The Dark Knight opens today, and that it stars the late Heath Ledger as The Joker. This newest installment in the Batman series is, of course, set in a crime-ridden Gotham, where Batman (Christian Bale) meets The Joker, a super-villain who aims for complete anarchy through senseless violence and destruction. ("Complete anarchy" is probably also an apt description of what to expect during the film's opening weekend: slated to open on a record 4,366 North American screens, industry watchers are predicting a three-day haul of some $135 million. And it's already opened huge in Australia.) As usual, we've collected a selection of reviews from some of the country's movie critics; their take on the film, after the jump. More »

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Christian Bale Trades Batman For Brooklyn Tough Guy

Why do we love Christian Bale? Let us count the ways: Empire of the Sun; that talent; that face; that awesome dad. Bale, who stars in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight, sat down with Today's Matt Lauer this morning, and honestly, we didn't know what to clip...so we clipped it all. Click to hear Christian discuss this film's rave reviews, doing his own stunts, Chicago's Sears Tower, co-star Heath Ledger, and his kids... all in an accent that sounds like some combination of English, Australian and Brooklyn tough guy.

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It's A Bird! It's A Plane! No, It's Anna Wintour's Dress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's annual gala: Oh, it happened all right. And though you now know who made it into the the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly category of "fashion's Oscars," we know you're just dying to know what the media themselves had to say about the yearly orgy of fashion and fame. (At the very last you're dying to know what hoity-toity critic-types had to say about Anna Wintour's Princess Amadala outfit, right? Right.) The best of the press' bon mots, after the jump. More »

Hello, Kitty On NPR's All Things Considered, Alison Keyes discusses Catwoman. Although the DC comics character has become, Keyes writes, "a symbol of feminine power," she started out as a villain, foil and whip-carrying burglar for Batman to battle in 1940. Later, in the campy '60s TV series Batman, Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt turned the Catwoman character into a fierce, gorgeous, smart woman who happens to be a bad girl. Catwoman has had her own comic for 15 years, and if you don't follow these things you may not know: She's changed from the saucy minx we once knew. Although she's still stacked as hell and not afraid to flaunt it, she no longer wears high heels. Plus! Selina Kyle (Catwoman's real name) has a backstory: She's an orphan, has a sister, and used to be a prostitute. This past was created for her in 1986. What happened between 1940 and 1986 that forty years later a woman needs to be a hooker in order to be a thief? [NPR]