Venom, Joker, and the year of supervillain cinema
Venom: The Last Dance Sony Pictures / Sony Pictures Mark Millar’s limited series Wanted, loosely adapted in 2008 into an atrocious movie, imagined a dystopian world where all the superheroes…
Congratulations, Hollywood, you’ve ruined the Joker for good
Warner Bros. Pictures This weekend, Joaquin Phoenix returns to his Oscar-winning role as Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker, in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. Ostensibly a sequel to Joker,…
Joker 2’s ending, explained
Warner Bros. Pictures Gotham City’s greatest villain has returned to the big screen with the release of director Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. This sequel shows Arthur Fleck (Joaquin…
Watch Amanda Waller Absolutely Slay the Suicide Squad Anime’s Ending Song
Warner Bros. has released the incredible ending credit sequence of its new Suicide Squad anime series, and whatever you feel about the DC team’s morally dubious director, Amanda Waller, you…
Tim Burton’s Batman Is a Cultural Game Changer
Warner Bros. and DC Comics have been riding the high of Batman for decades, both in the comics and expanded media like TV, games, and film. That last one is…
Suicide Squad Isekai’s Opening Is More Restrained Than You’d Think
Image: Wit Studio/WB Japan Ever since the Suicide Squad came crashing into theaters back in 2016, Warner Bros. has been doing whatever it can to keep them around in the…
Todd McFarlane’s Spawn Hires an Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter
James Gunn’s Superman gets an update. King Kong joins Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Plus, the Dexter prequel series casts its leads. To the victor go the spoilers! Spoilers of the…
How The Dark Knight Helped Bring Fallout to Life
Besides the name “Nolan,” The Dark Knight and Fallout don’t have much in common. One is based on a comic book, the other a video game. One is set in…
Batman: The Animated Series Creator Bruce Timm’s New Gotham Cartoon Is Going to Get Weird
Batman: The Animated Series remains an important, influential superhero show, even nearly 30 years after its final episode, and the loss of iconic voice actor Kevin Conroy. But Batman the…
The 21 Best Things We Saw at CinemaCon 2024
Not a still from Gladiator II. Instead, it’s Chris Aronson, president of domestic distribution for Paramount Pictures, dressing up to celebrate the movie at CinemaConImage: Gabe Ginsberg Most film fans…