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Comic Book Review – Suicide Squad #3

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Tony Black reviews Suicide Squad #3… “THE BLACK VAULT” part 3! It looks like a well-deserved day off for the Suicide Squad—until things go off the rails when the bizarre energies of the dark sphere Amanda Waller’s team brought back slowly drive everyone in Belle Reve Penitentiary to acts of violent, bloody madness. Everyone except […]

David Ayer announces that Suicide Squad is complete, says “it is a beast”

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With just six weeks to go until it opens in cinemas around the globe, director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to announce that he’s completed post-production on Warner Bros.’ hotly-anticipated DC supervillain team-up Suicide Squad. Squad is completed! Finished final mix and coloring. Now it's off to the lab and then the world. Nothing like […]

Why does every superhero movie feature the Military-Industrial Complex?

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Anghus Houvouras on superhero movies and the military-industrial complex… To say that comic book movies have become formulaic is like saying that Michael Bay enjoys explosions and hot women. It’s painfully obvious and hardly a revelation. I sat through Fantastic Four last week, and like many of you checked out around the halfway point, and […]

Deborah Snyder discusses the future of the DC Extended Universe, says Justice League will be lighter in tone than Batman v Superman

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Now that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is here, Warner Bros. is shifting its attention to the future of the DC Extended Universe, and producer Deborah Snyder has been speaking to Collider about their upcoming slate and how they’ll differ in tone from Dawn of Justice. “They’re so different from each other,” states Snyder. “[David […]

Jared Leto isolated himself away during Suicide Squad’s production and asked to be called “Mr. J” at all times

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His look has been certainly divisive between comic book fans, but there’s something about Jared Leto’s Joker that has gotten people intrigued. Further to that, it has been revealed that Leto separated himself away from the rest of the Suicide Squad cast and asked for the crew to call him by his character name. “Look, you […]

The most tweeted about movies, TV shows and celebrities from Comic-Con 2015

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The San Diego Comic-Con took place over the weekend (which I’m sure you’re more than aware about), and Twitter has been analysing social media activity over the past few days to work out the most tweeted-about movies, TV shows and celebrities during the convention. So, what was the most popular movie on the social media […]

Scott Eastwood says he was “afraid to approach” Jared Leto’s Joker on set of Suicide Squad

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His father may be one of the toughest actors ever to grace the big screen but Scott Eastwood recently admitted in an interview with E!Online that while he was on the set of Suicide Squad he kept his distance from Jared Leto’s Joker because he “didn’t want to mess with his thing…” If your last […]

New synopsis for Suicide Squad

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DC Entertainment has released a new synopsis for Warner Bros.’ supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad, which comes courtesy of some solicitations for upcoming DC Collectibles merchandise; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Suicide Squad aiming for PG-13 rating It feels good to be bad…Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them […]

David Ayer says Suicide Squad “surprises are intact” despite set photos

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Over the past few weeks we’ve been inundated with spy photos from the Toronto set of Warner Bros.’ Suicide Squad, with numerous images arriving online of the likes of The Joker, Harley Quinn, Deadshot and even the Dark Knight himself. Naturally this has led to some concern about the amount of spoilers we’ve seen from […]