DC Comics
How do you make formulaic plots and stories attractive and vital? It’s a question director/co-writer Jared Stern and co-writer John Whittington have answered with DC League of Super-Pets, their cinematic spin on the “disparate characters come together to defeat evil” children’s film chestnut. Focusing on a ragged team of pet store rejects who suddenly find […]
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Welcome to Diana Prince/Wonder Woman’s formal introduction into the DC Comics Extended Universe. Gal Gadot may have played her in last year’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but this explosive and challenging film is the arrival Diana Prince deserves. Wonder Woman turns Gadot into the primary special effect in a film designed to make […]
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(If you read nothing else of this review, please note: skip the 3D and go with 2D. This will be explained in the review.) Full compliments go to director Zack Snyder and his cast and crew for tackling a venerated, well-established property. Superman has been around for 75 years, and the various incarnations of him […]
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(This review originally appeared at Reel Film News on July 27, 2012.) Before we start: on behalf of Reel Film News, we would like to offer our sincerest condolences to the victims of the Aurora shooting and their families. I had originally written an overlong piece about the merits of The Dark Knight Rises. There […]
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