Christian Bale Visits Colorado Shooting Victims

Batman helps the healing process...

Watch New TV Spots For 'Dark Knight Rises:' VIDEO

Warner Bros. debuted its first television spot for The Dark Knight Rises during the American Idol finale last night. A second one has also popped up on the web.

Watch them both, AFTER THE JUMP...

'The Dark Knight Rises' Trailer Has Risen: VIDEO

The full Dark Knight Rises trailer is finally here, starring Christian Bale, featuring Tom Hardy as Bane, and Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, and Gotham in all its Gothamy goodness. Also, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Marion Cotillard.

Check it out, AFTER THE JUMP...

In theaters July 20.

Movies: Tilda's Paycheck, Christian's Oscar, Helen's Tempest, Ryan's Meme

Tilda Swinton reaches for another Narnia paycheck

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If the last Narnia film is any indication, The White Witch's appearance in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER will be the sum total of her screentime in the movie. We see Tilda Swinton floating in the sky like the goddess she is, hand lifted and opened. Waiting for her paycheck perhaps?  Someone has to foot the bill for her film festival globe trotting, avant garde fashions, wondrous cinephile activism and her preference for brilliant but uncommercial cinema last year's Julia and this year's I Am Love (now on DVD - don't miss it). For this reason, and this reason alone, we salute the utterly bland Narnia films. Keep Tilda in the black.

Also Opening: Crackhead Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) trains half brother Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) in THE FIGHTER. Wahlberg's Micky may be the champ within the movie but Bale's Dicky is the one going home with a certain naked gold man next February.

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Watch: Mark Wahlberg Flexes His Muscle for the Fighter

Mark Wahlberg crosses the 'boxer' role on his serious actor checklist. Not sure why Christian Bale had to lose so much weight for this film, but he sure did.

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Towleroad Guide to the Tube #634

ON MY WAY: A music video made with iPhones from Izumo.

CRITTER CAM: Octopus vs. Sea Lion.

VICIOUS DOG MAN: Australian news interviews a man whose bark is worse than his bite.

TIGER WOODS: The Christian Bale remix.