Flickering Myth

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What Are The Best Female-Led Blockbusters?

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EJ Moreno looks at eight of the best women-led blockbusters… We are entering almost unknown territory with the success of Barbie. As the film inches to half a billion in just one week of release, we see a female-led (and female-directed) blockbuster hit heights we never thought possible. With only Captain Marvel in the billion-dollar […]

DC Studios reportedly officially done with Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman

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Don’t play that Hans Zimmer score just yet; the return of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is seemingly done. With conflicting stories, we don’t know what’s true. Still, a new Variety piece says that DC Studios is moving away from Gadot’s take on the DCU hero, looking to start fresh after the DCEU run. According […]

Gal Gadot reveals she’s developing Wonder Woman 3 with DC Studios

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We’ve been waiting for someone to throw the lasso of truth around the future of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman for a while now, what with her post-Wonder Woman 3 cancellation cameos in Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash. Well, now Princess Diana of Themyscira herself has confirmed that she is going to be working on […]

Comic Book Preview – Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman #1

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DC Comics releases Knight Terrors: Wonder Woman #1 this Tuesday coming; check out the official preview below… THE JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK AGAINST NIGHTMARES COME TO LIFE! After investigating an alarming intrusion at the now-defunct Hall of Justice, Wonder Woman and her unexpected new ally, Detective Chimp, suddenly find themselves in a world where their worst […]

Women, Comic Books, and Sex: It’s Time to Change the Record

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Alice Rush on Women, Comic Books, and Sex… A part of me envies young girls growing up these days. More important conversations about feminism and gender equality are happening prominently in the media and the female role models being shown across television and film are fantastic. When I think back to my former years and […]

Marvel’s movie model works, DC’s doesn’t – and Suicide Squad proves it

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Tony Black shares his thoughts on the state of the DC Extended Universe… So we can all agree on one thing here, right? Suicide Squad is a disaster. Yay or nay? If you’re reading this, there’s every chance like me you thought it was almost as loud, boring and ponderous as Batman v Superman: Dawn […]

UPDATE: Patty Jenkins says rumours of “insiders” claiming Wonder Woman is “another mess” are “entirely false”

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It has been a bad year for DC and Warner Bros. What should have been a great year that fully kicked off the DC Extended Universe began with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice under-performing at the box office and getting destroyed by critics and fans, which was then followed up with Suicide Squad also […]

Gal Gadot says we’ll know about her Wonder Woman future “once the right moment arrives”

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Sometimes you wish DC would just throw a lasso of truth around the future of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, because despite the cancellation of Patty Jenkins’ third film, she has had cameos in the last two extended-universe installments (Shazam! Fury of the Gods and The Flash), and has recently hinted that her stint as Diana […]

Comic Book Preview – Dark Knights of Steel #11

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DC Comics releases the penultimate issue of Dark Knights of Steel this Tuesday; check out the official preview below… The Trinity have united under a banner of hope as they go to war against the White Martian threat in this penultimate chapter! But how deep has the betrayal fractured the tentative alliance? Can bitter differences […]