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The Week in Spandex – Batman, Wonder Woman, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Flash / Arrow, Constantine and more

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Our weekly round-up of the latest news and talking points from the world of screen superheroes, including Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League Dark, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Gotham, Constantine, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Agent Carter, Big Hero 6, The Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse and more…. It’s […]

Supergirl Season 1 Episode 18 Review – ‘Worlds Finest’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighteenth episode of Supergirl… When something flies by at a rate of knots it tends to mean good things. What we have with ‘Worlds Finest’ is an example of exactly that. With talk of multiverses and parallel dimensions existing independently, Supergirl manages to mine rich territory this week. In a crossover […]

The Multiverse Era: When a Cinematic Universe Isn’t Enough

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Tom Jolliffe on the current preoccupation with the multiverse… Cinema is all about cycles. Genres flit in and out of prominence. An action landscape which was once dominated by Westerns was then temporarily displaced by gangster films, then epics, then Westerns again, then a brief parley into pessimistic cinema, before Star Wars laid a significant […]

Comic Book Preview – The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #3

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DC Comics’ three-issue lead-in to The Flash movie concludes this Tuesday with the release of The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #3; check out the official preview below… Barry has learned to control his powers and is finally starting to feel like the hero he’s always dreamed he could be. But then a showboating new […]

The ABC’s of Death: Does the network’s cull spell trouble for Marvel?

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In one of the biggest TV culls of recent memory, ABC today cut a veritable swathe through some of its most well known and long-running material, cancelling a raft of shows with a built-in pedigree and audience. Castle is one of the most prominent, a Steven J. Cannell-esque procedural detective show that has seen the […]

DC’s The Flash movie already has a sequel script

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The Flash’s journey to the big-screen hasn’t been one befitting of a character who can run at Mach 3.3, or 2,532 miles per hour, but should Barry Allen’s solo-outing be the success Warner Bros. hope, at least they’ll be ready to move much faster on a sequel following news that a script is already finished.  […]

DC Films enters new era with Henry Cavill, Matt Reeves, Dwayne Johnson, and James Gunn

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DC and its film universe are in a rocky spot. While the executives are changing at Warner Bros Discovery, so are the talents in front and behind the cameras. In a new landscape shift from the DCEU, we’ve learned a bit about the plan for the future, and it looks like an interesting upcoming slate. […]

Comic Book Preview – The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive #2

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DC Comics’ Flash movie prequel The Flash: The Fastest Man Alive continues this Tuesday, and you can check out the preview of the issue here…   Barry Allen’s early days as the Flash continue! Barry struggles to balance his new job as a hero with his internship at the crime lab. The pressure starts overwhelming […]

Somehow, someway, Ezra Miller shows up for The Flash reshoots

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Warner Bros. Discovery is not letting go of The Flash movie, and the latest reshoot news is another example of the studio sticking to its guns. The Wrap reports Ezra Miller shot a day of pickups last week for The Flash. Pickups are another term for a reshoot or additional photography, usually involving small, relatively […]