REview: The Flash (2023) | Running Fast to Nowhere

No matter what James Gunn says, The Flash not only isn’t ‘…one of the best superhero movies…‘ it’s got more dodgy CGI than any big-budget major studio release in recent memory. That being said I don’t think the movie’s greatest problem are the special effects more than a movie being built around Ezra Miller’s Flash, […]

Gunn Shooting Blanks?

James Gunn has called Andy Muschietti’s upcoming The Flash ‘one of the greatest superhero movies ever…‘ and that’s only true if you’ve seen very few superhero movies, because if you have, it isn’t. It has many problems, the most significant being Ezra Miller – never mind his various, and well-documented – problems in real life. […]

The Danger of the Clean Slate

According to Comicbookmovie.com, James Gunn and Peter Safran’s goal is to wipe the slate clean as far as prior interpretations of DC characters in the live action space goes. And I believe that’s a likely, and more importantly, necessary step to take (and have argued it should have been taken place long before now) but […]

I Hate to Say I Told You So…

Remember when I wrote Can We Just Admit That Black Adam is a (Soft) Failure? Apparently I’m not the only person to think so because The Wrap has recently reached the same conclusion (you’d have to join WrapPRO to read the full article but the two paragraphs you can read gratis are enough) albeit 11 […]

We Need To Talk About Kevin – Review

Now this is a horror movie (in perhaps the truest sense of the term). Lynn Ramsey’s We Need To Talk About Kevin isn’t necessarily a scary film, though don’t let the seemingly placid facade fool you, because here lie monsters.  Though, unlike in most horror movies, these creatures don’t wear hockey masks or look like an experiment in […]