The Dark Knight Rises starts this Friday and is certain to be a massive success at the box office.  But it has been four years since the last Christopher Nolan movie, The Dark Knight, and even longer since the first of the trilogy, Batman Begins, so for those of you that ain't going to go back and watch them this week (something I am doing), here's a primer. You know that Bruce Wayne's parents are killed in a mugging outside a theater, but in this version of the story it is due to Bruce's fear of bats.  When the opera he and his parents are attending stage a scene with bats he his frightened...


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Dark Knight Rises will be here on July 20, 2012.  Empire has a new interview with director Christopher Nolan and two covers that reveal not only a cool new Bat-Gadget, but also a good look at the main villian, Bane. If you've read the comics, you know that Bane will be a different and violent opponent for Wayne, but in a different way than what was The Joker.  Bane is all about brute force and I have no doubt that if you consider how well Nolan captured the "dark" version of The Joker for the last movie, then it's safe to assume we are in for a terribly sadistic movie version of Bane.  Bane...


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