You simply cannot ignore the overt imagery of Blake rising on that platform followed by the title appearing on screen. Notice that Nolan’s films always leave the title until the very end of the movie. That’s where the title of each film has its final, full embodiment: from the announcement that Batm...

Blake has the background of Jason Todd and Tim Drake, for the most part (his father is murdered due to a debt, and he later deduces Batman’s identity while still a young kid), but then grows up to have Dick Grayson’s adult life (being a police officer and ally of Batman who has dealt with the traged...

Just saw the dark knight rises for the 10th time today. Multi-layered, Multi-faceted, Just right for the Nolan-verse. The story is studded with references that will make sense only to those intimate with Nolan’s previous excursions into Batmanhood. Rises is about hope. It’s not simply a paean to the...