There aren’t many films like Drive. Sure, you don’t have to look far to find ’80s-inspired throwbacks with enough neon lighting and synth soundtracks to delight any cinephile nostalgic for an era they never experienced, but Drive’s delicate mix of art house sensibilities pushed through the filter of a commercial blockbuster, making it that rare […]
Continue readingBecause of its status as one of the most derided Marvel Cinematic Universe titles, the general conversation surrounding Thor: The Dark World has largely focused solely on its artistic shortcomings. Those drawbacks are certainly worth talking about, but it’s somewhat shocking that more attention hasn’t been paid to the chaotic production that this feature endured. […]
Continue readingIn the wake of Wonder Woman 3’s cancelation, there was a lot to mourn, a lot to critique, and a lot to celebrate. Even though Wonder Woman 1984 was a miss for many fans, director Patty Jenkins’ original 2017 film delivered one of the most emotionally effective action scenes in the superhero canon and showed […]
Continue reading“Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins cleared the air on Tuesday about the recent news that “Wonder Woman 3” would not move forward at Warner Bros. and the new DC Studios, pushing back on “clickbait” that she killed the project or stepped away from making it.“When there started to be backlash about WW3 not happening, the […]
Continue readingBig shakeups are happening at Warner Bros. Discovery’s DC Studios. It was reported December 8 that Patty Jenkins’ third “Wonder Woman” film will not move forward at the company, with insiders saying that plans for the overall DC Comics franchise, now under James Gunn and Peter Safran, conflicted with Jenkins’ vision. Many fans are expressing […]
Continue readingCould DC be hitting the reboot button?A sequel to 2020’s “Wonder Woman 1984” from director Patty Jenkins is not moving forward at Warner Bros., as new DC Studios chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran prepare to unveil their strategy next week for the future of DC adaptations to Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav.Only Gunn […]
Continue readingIn the wake of the supreme court overturning Roe v Wade, Carter’s tweets have broken through: Wonder Woman has engaged with the discourseThe afterlife of the movie star with a single, iconic role is a curiosity. Between 1976 and 1979, Lynda Carter appeared in three seasons of Wonder Woman, a hit so huge that for […]
Continue readingThere was a time not so long ago when it seemed like Natalie Portman was done with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although Portman’s character, Jane Foster, popped up in “Avengers: Endgame” in 2019, it was only in existing footage of her that had gone unused from the production of “Thor: The Dark World.” That movie was […]
Continue readingFilmmaker Joss Whedon (“Avengers”) has had a bad couple of years. Starting in the summer of 2020, after “Zack Snyder’s Justice League” was announced, a wave of accusations about the director’s reportedly appalling behavior on the set of 2016’s “Justice League,” started to surface. Led by “Justice League” actor Ray Fisher, the worst of these […]
Continue readingWhen it comes to recent Hollywood franchise failures, there’s none worse than Universal‘s short-lived Dark Universe and the film that sank it, Alex Kurtzman‘s 2017 film, “The Mummy.” And what a disaster that movie was. Critics reviled the film, audiences chose to keep going to “Wonder Woman” and the latest “Pirates Of The Caribbean” movie […]
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