I watched Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil last night, starring John Cusack and Kevin Spacey, because I was looking something else up on IMDB.com and was intrigued. My parents own the movie, and they hadn't even opened it yet...it's a good movie, but very weird at times. Kevin Spacey does a great job portraying the eccentricities of Jim Williams, who was a real-life person in Savannah, Georgia. The other characters, including Cusack's John Kelso reporter role, were equally as interesting (and weird). :-p And it was fun to see a younger Michael Rosenbaum portraying a Southern character for a change, a far cry from his severe turn as LexLuthor on Smallville. I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it already. (And it's based on the novel of the same name, so an added bonus there!)

The thing I like about IMDB is that you can find so much information you never realized existed...of course, it's a place you can end up wasting a lot of time if you're not careful. But I was poking around on the site last night, and through a "six degrees of separation" I got to the page for the next Batman movie, to be released next year in July. This is the first Batman movie in all of the films to not have the word "Batman" in the title; the movie is called The Dark Knight. Christian Bale (yum) is returning as Batman, and so are Michael Caine (Alfred) and Gary Oldman (Lt. Gordon). Thankfully, Katie Holmes won't be playing Rachel Dawes in this movie...I didn't really like how she handled that role in Batman Begins, so I'm glad that this time, Maggie Gyllenhaal will get to try it out. Hopefully she will do a more admirable job! Harvey Dent will make an appearance in this movie, played by Aaron Eckhart...this should be interesting...and even more interesting is Heath Ledger playing the Joker. I watched a teaser trailer last night, and hearing Joker's maniacal laugh was enough to give me chills. It just upsets me that people are already making comparisons between how Ledger will portray the Joker versus Jack Nicholson's version...I don't believe comparisons should be drawn...for the intent of releasing Batman Begins and subsequent movies was to have a fresh start to the Batman lore...and in no way relating to the past movies.

You can check out the teaser trailer here.