I’m not sure I’d call The Flash a mixed bag; that implies a fairly equal good-to-bad ratio, and The Flash is more bad than good by a wide margin. And what’s bad is abysmal, not only embracing many of the grating modern superhero movie tropes but hooking them up to rockets and shooting them int...
Read MoreHe can’t ask people to kneel before him if he’s a liar. Michael Shannon, who portrayed Superman villain General Zod in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, reprises his role in the upcoming DC Comics movie The Flash, but the actor sounds less than enthused about his return engagement. In an interview w...
Read MoreIt’s almost becoming a cliché to say that the behind-the-scenes or other real-world events surrounding a movie make a better story than the film itself, but the way Warner Bros. is marketing The Flash, as detailed in a Variety piece, is interesting. A lot of this is born of necessity because of t...
Read MoreWarner Bros. Discovery is hoping the Dark Knight will reverse DC’s cinematic downward spiral. Today, the beleaguered studio (although that could be almost any studio lately) released a new – and, presumably, final – trailer for Batman… I mean, The Flash, their next big superhero blockbuster ...
Read MoreThe players on the field aren’t the fastest things at the Super Bowl this year, as the new trailer for The Flash debuted. The long-gestating DC superhero movie – one of the last gasps of the DCEU, or the Snyderverse, or whatever you want to call it – The Flash finds Barry Allen caught in &hell...
Read MoreThe poster for what Warner Bros. desperately wants us to believe is one of the best superhero movies ever made, The Flash, has been released. The trailer for the film will air during the Super Bowl, although, unlike Universal, Warner Bros. isn’t ruining its investment by dropping that online early...
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