Watchmen Archives

Zack Snyder Thinks Batman is Irrelevant if he Doesn’t Kill

AlexGherzo | Mar 7, 2024 | 3

Zack Snyder appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and talked about, among other things, his DC films. The segment that’s setting off alarm bells in superhero fans is when he talks about Batman and his rule against killing. In Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Snyder’s version of Batman – pl...

John Boyega to Reprise Finn in Rey Movie?

virginiakublawi | Apr 21, 2023 | 1

Following John Boyega’s softening towards Star Wars and the announcement of a new film starring Rey, John Rocha, host of the podcast The Hot Mic, has heard from sources that Boyega may be the male lead of the movie. On this week’s episode of the entertainment podcast, Jeff Sneider filled...

The Emmys and Poetic Justice

AlexGherzo | Sep 23, 2020 | 4

The 2020 Emmy Awards aired this Sunday, and like the rest of the world, I didn’t watch it. The Emmys never appealed to me in the same way the Oscars did (before a celebration of cinema turned into a bunch of limousine liberals trying to out-woke each other). It doesn’t feel like an event, especi...

REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9, “See How They Fly”

AlexGherzo | Dec 16, 2019 | 0

HBO’s official description of “See How They Fly,” the Watchmen season (series?) finale, highlights one of the larger sticking points with the sequel series: “Everything ends. For real this time.” In trying to carve out a reason for itself to exist, Watchmen the show undermines the original...

REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 8 “A God Walks into Abar”

AlexGherzo | Dec 10, 2019 | 0

“A God Walks into Abar” fills in plenty of Watchmen’s blanks, particularly the ones last week’s episode created when it revealed that Angela’s husband Cal is actually Doctor Manhattan. There are still elements that don’t make sense, and Angela remains a flat character, but it’s an ente...

REVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 7 “An Almost Religious Awe”

AlexGherzo | Dec 2, 2019 | 0

If nothing else, “An Almost Religious Awe” assures us that Watchmen is completely off its rocker. This show is bugnuts crazy, and while I imagine Damon Lindelof and the rest of the people behind it think making everything about race is a shortcut to gravitas and intellectualism, the lunacy and s...