The 2007 summer movie season “officially” kicks off next weekend, but I’m already looking forward to next year… and no movie more so than The Dark Knight, the follow-up to 2005’s Batman Begins. That has become one of the very rare movies that the more times I’ve watched it, it just keeps getting better and better. Christopher Nolan’s vision was the best on-screen portrayal of Batman and his world by far: this guy gets Batman. Nolan’s Batman is realistic and not comic-booky or “superheroic”… which ironically helped make Batman Begins the finest superhero movie ever, in my opinion. I just hope that nobody drops the ball with future installments of this series, ‘cuz the first really was the best way to kick off a potential movie franchise that I’ve ever seen.

Well, this past week saw quite a few good bits of material coming out of The Dark ...