Zack Snyder: ‘I don’t have a rightwing political agenda. People see what they want to see’ | Zack Snyder
[ad_1] Luca, Zack Snyder’s chow-labrador cross, is going bananas. It’s early morning in rural Pasadena and the air is filled with growls. When a bear ambled past the other day, Luca didn’t bat an eyelid. But the appearance of the gardener (who apparently comes every day) means he needs considerable restraint. So it was while […]
Zack Snyder: has the king of comic book gloom finally found his happy place? | Movies
[ad_1] I don’t hate Zack Snyder but I have hated a lot of his films. I have laid into Snyder so often it’s beginning to feel like a personal vendetta but it really isn’t; he’s just one of those directors who can’t help but divide opinion. To many critics he has inexplicably failed upwards, casting […]
Justice League, zombies and Rod Stewart: post your questions for director Zack Snyder | Zack Snyder
[ad_1] In next Friday’s Guardian, Zack Snyder – one of the most successful and sometimes most polarising directors of the modern age – will be answering questions from friends, peers and Guardian readers. That’s where you come in. What would you ask the man who directed Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole and […]
Army of the Dead review – Zack Snyder’s zombie splatterfest is a wit-free zone | Movies
[ad_1] Zombies. They grunt. They lurch inelegantly through dystopian ruined streets, sometimes breaking into an athletic sprint. They stare sightlessly ahead, often with irises that glitter in the post-apocalyptic sunset with some nameless infection. Sometimes they shriek through hideously distorted mouths from which the flesh has already been half-eaten away, as they are blasted with […]
After the Snyder Cut, all bets are off for a new Ben Affleck Batman movie | Movies
[ad_1] Zack Snyder certainly pulled off a shock with his completely transformed, outlandishly extended cut of Justice League, a genuine lockdown treat that managed to prove DC ensemble movies can be easily as beguiling as those made by Marvel – provided film-makers are given the time and space. The problem is, Warner Bros-owned DC has […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘Snyder cut’ of Justice League accidentally released on HBO Max | Justice League
[ad_1] The long-awaited “Snyder cut” of the superhero movie Justice League was accidentally released on streaming service HBO Max on Monday, before being removed. According to the Hollywood Reporter, customers who were attempting to access the new Tom and Jerry movie found that instead the service played Zack Snyder’s Justice League, which is due to […]
Holy grail or poisoned chalice: why does Hollywood always mess up King Arthur? | Guy Ritchie
[ad_1] It’s a popular lament in the comment section of this column that Hollywood remakes are to be viewed with scorn and derision. But film-makers surely have a right to try to deliver a truly definitive big-screen version of a famous myth, even if dozens before them have failed miserably. If so, this bodes well […]
Hear me out: why Sucker Punch isn’t a bad movie | Film
[ad_1] Expecting subtlety from a Zack Snyder film is a fool’s errand, and critical response to that consistently extra quality hasn’t always been kind. But few of his films have been as reviled as 2011’s Sucker Punch, which was released to an onslaught of negative reviews – and is actually a lot more entertaining than […]
