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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 2024, Winnipeg, Manitoba C4 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COMTHURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024 PRIME TIME TV THURSDAY MOVIES R o g e r s M T S B e l l S h a w D i r e c t 6 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 2 CBC (6) 2 226 332 Olympic Games Paris 2024 Canoe sprint finals, men's sport climbing speed final, men's diving 3m springboard final. 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TVA nouvelles (N) Sucré salé <+ "CHIPS" ('17, Com) Dax Shepard, Michael Peña.  126 TV5 405 145 761 Paris, l'éternel Début Littoral (N) Les 100 lieux qu'il faut voir (N) Mon plus b (N) Léo Matteï, "Le secret de Jade" (N) C dans l'air (N) Afrique (N) Journal (N)  New animated series takes the Caped Crusader back to his pulpy roots Bat signal lit again in Gotham T HERE’S a new old Batman in town. Batman: Caped Crusader, a cartoon series which premièred last week on Prime Video, is not the first attempt to take the character back to his pulpy roots, but it’s unusual in that it also takes the setting back in time to what I reckon is about a decade after his first appearance, in Detective Comics, in 1939. There have been, while I have not been paying attention, a lot of Batman cartoon series released — this is the 10th to have the character’s name in the title — not counting 26 animated features. What with all the live-action movies (and more on the way), numerous tangential projects and, of course, the 1966 ABC television show (the only Batman that matters — to me), it might be the hardest-working IP in show business. Over its long history there have been many approaches, seasoned to the tastes of the times, the retconning and rewriting and wholesale wiping out of history. Still, all Batman product may be broadly divided into two schools: what’s now called the “Bright Knight,” exemplified onscreen by Adam West in the 1966 TV show and The Dark Knight, born in Frank Miller’s 1986 comic series, which set the tone for the character going forward, as the battle between dark and light became increasingly a war between the dark and the slightly less dark. With its candy colours, canted camera angles and sound-effects balloons, the original series was witty, funny, parodic, satirical, deceptively smart and knowingly dumb and also a legitimate adventure story. It was every inch a product of the camp, Pop Art 1960s, but, like Star Wars a decade later, soaked through with nostalgia; gadgetry aside, it took its cues from B-grade crime films, old-time radio se - rials and the relatively straightforward costumed-heroes versus costumed-vil- lains scenario of the early Batman comics. Past the character’s traumatic origin story, which amounted to a mere 12 panels when it was offered to readers six months after his debut and which was never mentioned in the TV show, there was no psychology to the Bright Knight, only a Boy Scout ideology. He wasn’t saddled with issues any deeper than his ambiguous relationship with Catwoman. Developed by Bruce Timm, whose mid-’90s Batman: The Animated Series was also something of a throw- back, featuring Batman and Robin in their classic gear and a chronologically indefinable mise-en-scene. Batman: Caped Crusader mixes the dark and the bright by going back to basics when Batman was a simple vigilante detective regulating an unruly big city. It wraps its comic book tropes in a mantle of film noir, a genre where such distinctions were not always so clear. (Some episodes borrow their titles from pulp and detective novels, includ- ing Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me and Savage Night and Nero Wolfe’s And Be a Villain.) The images are rendered in muted tones of grey and brown with touches of blue and rose, which paradoxically lightens the mood — the homage to old movies is both a distancing device and fun on the face of it. Set in the postwar era, it’s decorated with landlines and fedoras and ranch homes of recog- nizable vintage; Bruce Wayne has a microfiche reader in his lair and uses the public library when he needs to know more. Batman — or “The Batman” as he’s called here, old-style — is pictured as Bob Kane first drew him, pre-Kevlar with tall pointy bat-ears sticking up from his cowl. He’s just getting started in Gotham City, a figure of mystery re- garded as an outlaw, notwithstanding all the crime fighting and citizen-sav- ing. There’s no Robin around, but Alfred (Jason Watkins) is on board and busy. Though we are, in a sense, in the Golden Age of Batman, Timm mixes in characters from later eras with such all-time, old-time all-stars as the Penguin (Minnie Driver), here reconceived as female, and Catwoman (Christina Ricci). But we also get deep-cut villains such as the Gentleman Ghost (Toby Stephens), Basil Karlo a.k.a. Clayface (Dan Donohue) and the vampiric Na- talia Knight (Mckenna Grace), drawn more or less as Wednesday Addams. And there are also old-school mob- sters, henchmen and thugs. The brevity of the episodes, which finish their main business in around 24 minutes (a hair shorter than an episode of the ’60s series), keeps things tight and propulsive. There are some longer arcs. Dis- trict Attorney Harvey Dent (Diedrich Bader), running for mayor and taking money from unsavoury sources to fund his campaign, is a presence through- out, with a well-known transformation in the offing. (To paraphrase the Shangri-Las, he’s good and bad but not entirely evil.) And there is the evolution of defence attorney Barbara Morgan (Krystal Joy Brown), daughter of police commis- sioner Jim Gordon (Eric Morgan Stu- art); Det. Renee Montoya (Michelle C. Bonilla); and psychiatrist Dr. Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung), who will try to get Bruce Wayne to open up about his childhood trauma before she tries, as Harley Quinn, to kill Batman. The action is well staged, though less conversational scenes are no more fluid than The Flintstones, but the design is attractive and there are nice painterly background effects here and there. An extended chase in the fog is cinematically suspenseful, even as it manages some meaningful character- ization. The scripts are smart and animate what the animation doesn’t and the whole production is more enjoyable than I would have imagined when I sat down to watch. It may be a cartoon, but cartoons are, after all, one dimension closer to the comics — which is how this whole thing started. — Los Angeles Times ROBERT LLOYD AMAZON PRIME / TNS Batman: Caped Crusader goes back to basics with Batman as a simple vigilante detective in an unruly Gotham City. TV REVIEW BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER Starring: Hamish Linklater, Jason Watkins, Diedrich Bader ● Prime Video, 10 episodes streaming now ★★★½ out of five FUNDRAISER ● FROM C1 Arlene Sumner, one of the models and a longtime participant at Acorn Family Place, says she’s looking forward to the show. “I’m pretty excited and a little nervous. It’s fun knowing that the clothes we wear are going to be used by other people again,” she says. “She’s actually wearing one of the shirts from the clothing depot right now,” Perron adds with a chuckle. Sumner first came to Acorn Family Place for the baby pro- grams they offered and has stayed connected ever since. “I’ve been part of Acorn for a couple of years now; they have a lot of good programs. It’s nice to have some support,” she says. Perron says they want more people to know about the services they provide. “We offer a lot of different pro- grams, from parenting classes to wellness outreach. We have child care on site and everything is free, so the support of the community is needed,” she says, Preparation for the event has been in full swing for weeks, Sum- mer says. “It’s been great so far and I’m getting more connected with other participants. My daughter, who’s only one, will also be on the runway with me, which is nice,” she says. The event promises to be more than just a fashion show, Perron says. “There will also be a silent auction with some pretty awesome items. It’s a chance for the com- munity to come together, support our programs and see first-hand the impact of their donations,” she says. Acorn Family Place has always been about more than just provid- ing services. It’s about walking with families on their journeys, offering support and resources to help them thrive, says Perron. “We really want Winnipeggers to come and connect with us and see how important these donations are,” she says. “It’s a powerful reminder of the importance of supporting agencies like ours.” Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Acorn Family Place or at wfp.to/acornfashion. For more information, call 204-560-3144. thandi.vera@winnipegfreepress.com ARTS ● LIFE I TELEVISION ;