******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…
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Superman & Lois; “It Went by So Fast” ends the series with a few well-earned tears…
******SUPER-SPOILERS!****** Why can’t the cinematic DC universe be anywhere near as good as the stuff they show for free on TV (and which is made for much less money)? Neither “The Batman” (2022) nor the two films of Henry Cavill’s Superman (2013/2016) did much for me, while the CW network’s “Supergirl” (2015-2021) and “Superman &…
“Superman: The Movie” (1978) made my generation believe a man could fly…
****SUPER-SPOILERS AHEAD!***** Having written a retrospective on “Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut” a couple years ago, I recently realized I’d never tackled my personal favorite of the Superman (and superhero) movie canon. In December of 1978, I’d just turned a precocious 12 years old when a new movie was released that everyone at school…