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EXCLUSIVE It's official: Zack Synder, the director of "300," is going back into battle on the side of the ancient Greeks -- and Frank Miller. "We closed the writing deal on 'Xerxes.' We started writing about a week ago," Snyder......

FIVE QUESTIONS: THOMAS TULL Thomas Tull and his company, Legendary Pictures, released their first feature-film, "Batman Begins," in 2005 and quickly surged to the forefront of Hollywood when it comes to films of the fantastic -- "The Dark Knight,"...

At Comic-Con International, I moderated nine panels -- yes, that is excessive moderation -- and none of them had me more intrigued than "Sucker Punch." As I told the crowd in Hall H, the convention is the place where fuses......

It's official: Zack Synder, the director of “300,� is going back into battle on the side of the ancient Greeks — and Frank Miller. “We closed the writing deal on ‘Xerxes,'� said Snyder, who is working on a script with...

Frank Miller says "Holy Terror" will come out next year but Batman won't be the hero. "It just seems that chasing the Riddler around seems silly compared to what's going on out there. I've taken Batman as far as he can go."...

There's an old cliche of movie history that really fits this year's movies: The films of 2005 -- especially the best ones -- kept shifting between the two great movie extremes of realism and fantasy. Sometimes, they plunged us into harsh truth, as with...

Batman has finally come home. Not just to a story that painstakingly details his origins but to an ominous style that suits it beautifully. Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" disdains the mindless camp and compulsive weirdness that mostly...

Every July, the producers and stars of all the new fall TV series, and the network executives who greenlit them, descend on a hotel in Southern California to tell a roomful of ornery critics that this is gonna be their year. Sometimes, they're even right....

While the TV world is concentrated in Pasadena for the Television Critics Association Press Tour, the worlds of comics, video games, toys and movies (and just a bit of TV) are mobilizing down in San Diego for the 37th Comic-Con International, running from...

IN telling the tale of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae — an epic confrontation in 480 B.C. in which King Leonidas leads an army of just 300 Spartans against the massive Persian hordes of self-proclaimed god-king Xerxes — director Zack Snyder...

3½ stars (out of 4) Film noir never dies. It just keeps coming back, drenched in black, guns blazing. At least that's the case with "Sin City," an amazingly successful attempt by Robert Rodriguez to translate Frank Miller's hard-boiled, brutally violent...

Friday October 16, 1998      "Sweeney Todd" it's not, cinema art it's not, but "Cannibal! The Musical" has its hilarious moments for sure. Produced five years ago by a group of enterprising University of Colorado film students for $125,000, rejected by...