If the new Superman film were simply an unwieldy pilot episode of a new Superman TV show, airing, say, maybe six episodes on HBO Max, I'd be very pumped. This is for several reasons: There are a lot ...

Oh dear. What we have here is a Howard the Duck, a Hudson Hawk, a big budget stinker which feels like the end of superhero films, when it should have been the beginning of something new. James Gunn’s ...

James Gunn surprised the world with Superman. After a decade of depreciating returns, Gunn's Superman, the theatrical debut for the new DCU, revived the Man of Steel and the wider DC Comics Universe ...

A man deemed an “alien” has his face crushed into the pavement by a masked thug. He’s then renditioned to a top-secret black site prison where he’s tortured. No, these aren’t images from today’s news ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound? Writer-director James Gunn’s “Superman” was always going to be a strange chemistry of filmmaker and material.

Welcome back to movie review central! I’m just kidding, of course, but I certainly understand how someone could think that is what this website is about, if the many movie reviews that I’ve been doing ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s a Superman movie worth watching? The latest addition to the D.C. universe, which James Gunn took over after a marvelous stint with Marvel, eschews the hero’s ...

Superman suffered his bruising defeat to the mysterious Hammer of Boravia, catspaw of Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult, pictured below), whose genius maps and beats his every move. Luthor’s visceral ...