Josh Reviews Superman!
Back in October 2022, James Gunn and Peter Safran were announced as co-heads of DC studios, and the two started working on an ambitious plan to relaunch a connected DC universe of films and TV shows. This new DCU got a soft launch this past year with the animated Creature Commandos
The Many Origins of Superman!
It’s incredible that, eighty years after his creation by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, Superman remains such a popular character, one who is known and loved worldwide. Even if you’ve never read a single comic book in your entire life, I bet you know who Su
Josh Actually Doesn’t Hate the Extended “Ultimate Edition” of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice!
So, yeah, I wrote a pretty scathing review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and also of the DC follow-up film Suicide Squad. I wouldn’t have imagined that I’d be in any sort of rush to watch Batman v Superman again any time soon (or even ever). But when I read th
News Around the Net
This is fantastic: Tom Hiddleston (who played Loki in both Thor movies and The Avengers) doing a phneomenal impression of Owen Wilson, had Owen been cast as Loki. Check this out. West Wing fans! Did you see this clip of Allison Janney performing The Jackal on The Arsenio Hall Show
News Around the Net: Comic-Con Edition!
Lots of cool news coming out of Comic-Con this week! Let’s begin with the hilarious Game of Thrones “In Memoriam” video: http://youtu.be/9m4ZPULXJKw Look! It’s Caesar and his Ape Council! Awesome. The Simpsons is going to do a crossover episode with Family
Why Man of Steel is Good but not Great
It’s been fascinating, over the past few weeks, reading all of the varied reactions to Man of Steel. It has proved to be a tremendously divisive film, with some loving it and some really loathing it. Personally, I am somewhere in between. I had a great time seeing it in th
Josh Kneels Before Man of Steel
I love Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie from 1978, and for much of my life I thought Superman II was even better. (My preference has swung back slightly, in recent years, towards the original film.) Those two movies were a huge part of my childhood, and more than any Sup
News Around the Net!
OK, this is the greatest thing I have seen in a long time (BUT BEWARE SPOILERS IF YOU ARE NOT UP TO DATE WITH GAME OF THRONES!!!) I love The Princess Bride! I’ve completely lost faith in M. Night Shyalaman over the past decade, but that being said I still think Unbreakable is hi
Superman Unbound
The latest DC Universe animated direct-to-DVD/blu-ray film has arrived: Superman: Unbound. Like many of these DCU animated DVDs have been, this new film is an adaptation of a great story from the comics — in this case, Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Jon Sibal’s reinvention
“He’ll Do it Because it’s Impossible” — Grant Morrison’s Superman in the New 52!
I’ve been re-reading Grant Morrison’s long run on Batman (click here for part one, and here for part two of my notes on my re-reading project), and I will be back soon with my next installment of commentary on that complex, years-long run. But last year, while winding do