Regé-Jean Page ‘hurt’ to learn race was factor in rejection from Superman show | Movies
[ad_1] The actor Regé-Jean Page has addressed reports he was turned down for a leading role in the superhero TV series Krypton because of his skin colour. “Multiple sources” cited by the Hollywood Reporter earlier this week suggested the producers of Krypton – an origins series focused on Superman’s grandfather – were “passionate about doing […]
New Gods and dead heroes: why Snyder’s DC plans are temptingly off the wall | Film
[ad_1] The idea that Zack Snyder is a visionary still doesn’t sit quite right, even following his surprisingly excellent Justice League re-cut. After all, this is the director of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a movie that always seemed as if it had been named by the marketing department and only then sent to […]
Does Zack Snyder’s Justice League signal the end of the DC Extended Universe? | Film
[ad_1] Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a movie that would never have existed without Covid-19. Just as the pandemic has, on occasion, given the rest of us time to pause and reflect on our place in the world, it gave Snyder time and space (thanks to the rise of streaming) to produce a film he […]
Zack Snyder’s Justice League review – four hours of geek-pleasing grandeur | Film
[ad_1] It started as a hashtag: a cheekily insurgent social-media campaign against big media corporations who presume to tell superhero devotees what’s good for them. Enraged by DC’s lacklustre Justice League movie in 2017 – which director Zack Snyder had to abandon during postproduction after a family tragedy, and which an uncredited Joss Whedon re-shot […]
Can James Gunn bring the Suicide Squad back to life? | Film
[ad_1] There are so many things wrong with David Ayer’s original 2016 Suicide Squad movie that it’s hard to know where to start. It’s like a superhero flick from the bad old days, before Marvel and Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. A movie made by hired guns rather than comic book fans. The suspicion is […]
Bring me a dream: why I’m excited about The Sandman coming to Netflix | Television & radio
[ad_1] Neil Gaiman’s comic book The Sandman isn’t quite in the canon of unadaptable literature, but converting it from page to screen is not a task for the fainthearted. That is why it’s so exciting for long-term fans that the first morsels of news about Netflix’s television version paint a picture of a production eager […]
Hear me out: why Batman v Superman isn’t a bad movie | Film
[ad_1] The most famous (or infamous) sequence in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes along just after Batman has bashed Superman over the head with a washbasin. Weakened by Kryptonite gas grenades, the Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) gasps that Lex Luthor has kidnapped his mother, Martha. “Why did you say that name,” roars […]
Wonder Woman 1984 review – queenly Gal Gadot disarms the competition | Superhero movies
[ad_1] Here is an enjoyable Amazonian incursion into Reagan’s America – but the real wonder is Kristen Wiig, playing the warrior queen’s resentful and emotionally wounded antagonist, Barbara Minerva. It is 1984, that pre-Covid utopian era of big hair, rolled-up jacket sleeves and imminent nuclear war, and Diana of Themyscira is getting her second superheroic […]
