![Dark City (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sxg6EhoAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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If you’re a fan of brooding comic-book antiheroes, got a nihilistic jolt from The Crow (1994), and share director Alex Proyas’s highly developed preoccupation for style over substance, you might be tempted to call Dark City an instant classic of visual imagination. It’s one of those films that exists in a world purely of its own making, setting its own rules and playing by them fairly, so that even its derivative elements (and there are quite a few) acquire their o (more…)
![The Dark Knight (+ BD Live) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515W9YXBgQL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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The Dark Knight arrives with tremendous hype (best superhero movie ever? posthumous Oscar for Heath Ledger?), and incredibly, it lives up to all of it. But calling it the best superhero movie ever seems like faint praise, since part of what makes the movie great–in addition to pitch-perfect casting, outstanding writing, and a compelling vision–is that it bypasses the normal fantasy element of the superhero genre and makes it all terrifyingly real. Harvey Dent (Aaron (more…)