Right after Colin Farrell‘s Oswald “Oz” Cobb shares a heartfelt waltz with his mother in the latest trailer for The Penguin, he sets out on a deadly crusade stabbing his first victim with a pocket knife and throwing the next into a body bag. “The world ain’t set up for …
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No one living in Gotham City has ever known peace. In the latest teaser trailer for The Penguin, the eight-episode series premiering on MAX in September, Colin Farrell‘s Oswald “Oz” Cobb is hellbent on making sure they never will. “I’m gonna tear down the empire from the inside out,” Oz …
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We were supposed to get our first trans Joker 35 years ago. In 1989, DC Comics published Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, a narrative exploration of Batman’s psychological problems, as well as those of his foes. Its scribe was an up-and-coming Scot by the name of Grant …
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Colin Farrell delivers a menacing monologue about a gangster from his youth in the new teaser for The Penguin, the upcoming show centered around the famous Batman villain. An exact release date for the eight-episode series hasn’t been revealed yet, but it’s expected to premiere this fall on Max. In …
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Gary Oldman‘s portrayal as Harry Potter‘s tragic godfather Sirius Black is widely regarded as one of the stronger castings in the beloved series, but Oldman himself doesn’t seem to agree. In a recent interview, the actor criticized his performance in the films. Speaking with Josh Horowitz in the latest episode …
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If the rousing strains of a Danny Elfman theme didn’t make it clear, if the image of a jagged batlike aircraft in the sky didn’t do the trick, the sight of Michael Keaton back in black rubber should: The Flash, the long-delayed superhero extravaganza that raced into multiplexes this weekend, …
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“I have spent the better part of 30 years of my career referencing the movies,” says Kevin Smith. “And now I’ve lived long enough where the movies are starting to reference me back.” He’s talking about The Flash, which, among its numerous cameos, includes a truly wild one, directly inspired …
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He’s the fastest man alive, able to sprint at superhuman speeds, vibrate his body through solid matter, generate electrical currents, and even disrupt the ebb and flow of time. On his own, this legendary superhero has consistently defeated boomerang-throwing bad guys, temperature-dropping supervillains, his own negative-image doppelgänger, and the toughest …
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“I could fix things,” offers Ezra Miller’s The Flash. “You could also destroy… everything,” counters Ben Affleck’s Batman. These words in the new trailer for The Flash, Warner Bros.’ DC superhero epic hitting theaters June 16, hit different today. The trailer for Andy Muschietti’s (It) film debuted ahead of the …
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You may have heard that both HBO Max and DC’s film and television properties are in a state of major turmoil. Projects are being canceled even after they’ve completed production, other series are being dropped from the streamer altogether — the proper term for this is, I believe, “Zaslaving” — …
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