Tag: comic books
The Suicide Squad Trailer Knows Lots of Bad Words
As director James Gunn promised on his Twitter feed, a red-band trailer for The Suicide Squad arrived online today. Also joining the advertising campaign are some individual character posters – and one outstanding ensemble one. A sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad (though minus a number i...
Read MoreREVIEW: Superman & Lois – Season 1, Episodes 1-5
As you can probably tell by the date, I ignored Superman & Lois when it premiered last month. A few years ago, I officially gave up on the Arrowverse outside of Arrow and The Flash. It wasn’t just that the formerly fun franchise had devolved into overbearing identity politics and woke hectorin...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 7, Episode 4 “Central City Strong”
Officially, “Central City Strong” is the fourth episode of The Flash’s seventh season, but it was supposed to be the season premiere, and it shows. This week deals with the fallout from the Mirrorverse arc and acts mainly as a checkpoint for the characters to get them back on superhero track. ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 1 “New World Order”
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is the second Marvel show to step up to Disney+’s plate, and whether it’s got a tough act to follow is sort of up in the air. Some (myself included) liked WandaVision quite a bit, but for others, the finale – which, admittedly, dropped the ball on some things ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
When I saw Justice League in theaters back in 2017, I liked it fine. It feels like an eternity has passed since then for a number of reasons, not the least of which being that the past year has felt like a decade. The first week or so after seeing the original Justice League cut, …
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REVIEW: The Flash Season 7, Episode 3 “Mother”
“Mother,” the season finale that is no longer a season finale but still feels like a season finale, is the perfect encapsulation of The Flash in its later seasons. Parts of it are great and harken back to the best of the show’s heyday; other parts are bad, tedious, and make you check your watc...
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