Editors note: On July 22, 2011, a short book on superheroes and whiteness will be released. Expect to see a few Web sites carry an article or two (in truncated form) that will be featured in this tome. This is a passion of mine - along with college football - and the date coincides with... Read More

Many people believe that Batman Begins and The Dark Knight represent two of the finest superhero movies ever made. Both were beautifully shot in the architecturally stunning city of Chicago, a magnificent stand-in for Gotham City where the Batman universe is set. Christopher Nolan's vision of Gotham City has been a metropolis inhabited by a... Read More

A smart wager could be made that more than 50 percent of the United States population has seen a Star Wars film. Perhaps you grew up in the Episode I - III and stumbled into a theater 10 years ago to the farce that was The Phantom Menace. Perchance, you saw Episode IV first and... Read More