Tim Burton is resisting the soullessness of modernity. In an interview with The Independent, the director of Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and more discussed his next film, Beetlejuice 2, and the old-school way he’s filming it, as well as cancel culture and AI. It’s a great read if you ...
Read MoreJames Gunn’s DC Universe has a lot of hurdles to overcome, and another one has just been added. A Twitter user named XsnyderverseX has unearthed old social media posts in which Gunn heavily criticized Tim Burton’s Batman, as well as Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins and The Dark Knight – som...
Read MoreThe Flash has been out for over a week now, and since it dropped 73% from its opening weekend, it’s safe to say the movie is not resonating. I didn’t like it – although I loved parts of it – and think it collapses under its own weight. But did it have to be this …
INTRODUCTION “There’s only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance. And some things happen because we make them happen. Barry Allen was once haunted by the past. But when he became the Flash, he left the ghosts behind. He found love. A family. And for the first time ...
Read MoreDads stayed away from the movies this Father’s Day weekend – along with everyone else. Two big movie premiered on Friday: Warner Bros./DC’s The Flash and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental. Neither was tracking well; The Flash was predicted to bring in $70 million, while Elemental was looking at a $35...
Read MoreI’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...
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