batman 3 starts shooting in april 2011

Batman 3 will start shooting April next year and Director Chris Nolan has stated that Heath Ledger will not be replaced as The Joker in any of the sequels. According to Dimewars.com,

For me, Heath was the definitive Joker," Nolan said, "It wouldn't feel appropriate to readdress that character." 

On Entertainment Weekly:

Although Nolan, his brother Jonathan, and David S. Goyer are still working on the script, an insider confirms that, although subject to change, Warner Bros. is indeed on track for an April start date, and Christian Bale, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Gary Oldman are attached. 

But Warner Bros. has also penciled in the next Batman for a July 20, 2012 release date. The studio was determined to set a definitive release date this far in advance due to the strong slate of other superhero movies to be released in the next two years.

inception movie reviews heating up the web!

The web is buzzing with rave reviews on Chris Nolan's latest epic "Inception" starring Leonardo Dicaprio. It's not yet showing in Manila but based on the news, the movie has piqued my interest and will see it with my son soon as Inception hits theaters here.

Below are some of the reviews from the web:

From The Washington Post:

"Drawing as much inspiration from Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier as he does from M.C. Escher, Nolan nonetheless manages to create a world all his own in "Inception." And that's a world that, while clearly a product of an auteur's idiosyncratic impulses, meets viewers at precisely that subliminal state between dream and reality where movies work best."

from the San Francisco Chronicle:

"Inception" is a mind-warping science-fiction epic, a rebooted "Matrix" for Generation Z, a paranoid corporate thriller and one-last-job heist movie. It's also an odyssey of delayed homecoming, a grief-soaked ode to the Freudian subconscious - a layered labyrinthine meditation on the seduction and impact of dreams. This is spellbinding, transporting, damn near indescribable and the latest indication that Christopher Nolan might be the slyest narrative tactician making movies today."

Roger Ebert gave it 4 stars!

The story can either be told in a few sentences, or not told at all. Here is a movie immune to spoilers: If you knew how it ended, that would tell you nothing unless you knew how it got there. And telling you how it got there would produce bafflement. The movie is all about process, about fighting our way through enveloping sheets of reality and dream, reality within dreams, dreams without reality. It's a breathtaking juggling act, and Nolan may have considered his "Memento" (2000) a warm-up; he apparently started this screenplay while filming that one. It was the story of a man with short-term memory loss, and the story was told backwards. (More of the review here)