******ACME ROCKET-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Written by Marvel/DC screenwriter/director James Gunn, Jeremy Slater and Samy Burch and directed by Dave Green (“Earth to Echo”), the animated-live action comedy “Coyote vs. Acme” (2026) certainly had an uphill struggle to the silver screen. Based on a parodic 1990 article from The New Yorker magazine and filmed in 2022, this…
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James Gunn’s “Superman” (2025) is a superhero movie for this age, though I wish it were more timeless…
******SUPER-SPOILERS!****** My wife and I just saw “Superman” (2025), and I’m going to try to keep this review a lot shorter than most, because it’s too early, and too many have yet to see the movie for one of this column’s usual deep-dives. That said, there will be some spoilers, so with that, let’s get…
Mixed emotions regarding the trailer for “Superman” (2025)…
******KRYTONITE-LADEN SPOILERS!****** Warner Bros recently dropped the latest three minute trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” writer-director James Gunn’s new “Superman” reboot movie (arriving in theaters July 11th), and while there were a number of elements that piqued my interest, the trailer had many of the same issues plaguing the current superhero movie sub-genre, as…
“The Suicide Squad” (2021) is a big, brutal, mean-spirited time killer…
******KEIJU-SIZED SPOILERS!!****** Good News and Bad News. The Good News. If you are, as I am, still skittish about returning to movie theaters during the current COVID-19 pandemic? You can still catch 2021’s reboot of “The Suicide Squad,” directed by James Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) on HBOMax, without an extra access code, now through…
“The Immortal” (1969-1971) was a short-lived ‘Fugitive’ with magic blood…
******TYPE-O SPOILERS!!****** “Try Try Try to Understand…He’s a Magic Man.” Ben Richards, as played by Christopher George (1931-1982) is a race car test driver who learns that his blood–after donating some of it to a dying old industrialist named Jordan Braddock (Barry Sullivan)–has unique regenerative properties that will allow him to live virtually forever (barring…