DC Comics’ Legends #4
The last issue underwhelmed, being a bit too focused on exposition and not enough on action and plot advancement. That being said, it gave us our first look at what would become the Suicide Squad, so it was far from…
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Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 9 of 9)
Well, we got through Suicide Squad. If you just started reading this recap here, I’ll let Superman sum the movie up for you:
But despite Suicide Squad’s banal ugliness, its addled editing, its incoherent characterizations, its risible villain, and its…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 8 of 9)
A while ago on Suicide Squad: The most useful member of the team found his cojones, only to sacrifice them (and everything else) to kill Enchantress’s brother “Chester”, whose real name I never heard even once. But Enchantress’s machine…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 7 of 9)
Antecedently on Suicide Squad: The chips are down for our plucky band of felons. Waller’s been kidnapped and mind-probed. Joker’s escape attempt went awry; he got in a helicopter crash *snicker* and he’s *snort* totally…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 6 of 9)
Heretofore on Suicide Squad: Our titular Squad began their first big assignment: to travel to Gotham Central Star National Fawcett Coast Keystone Gorilla Midway City and rescue an unidentified person from a brother/sister duo of omnipotent wizards who are wrecking…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 5 of 9)
Erstwhile on Suicide Squad: Amanda Waller’s cunning plan to engineer a romance between an ultra-powerful witch and the single person guarding her somehow ran into problems. Enchantress slipped her leash and went rogue, releasing her brother from his Pier…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 4 of 9)
Precedingly on Suicide Squad: Waller’s getting the band together. Harley Quinn’s pimp is coming to her rescue. Enchantress is off the leash and up to no good.
Enchantress teleports by wrapping her cloud of bodily funk around her. Her…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 3 of 9)
Previously on Suicide Squad: Government stooge (and three-time Detective Wyms Cosplay Contest runner-up) Amanda Waller wanted to protect America from a hypothetical terrorist threat by a Superman-type figure. To that end, she assembled a team of lame-o supervillains with…
Suicide Squad (2016): a recap (part 2 of 9)
Last time on Suicide Squad: The Wall got an idea.
An awful idea.
The Wall got a wonderful, awful idea.
She’s smiling because, with Superman dead, it’s the perfect time to pitch this wonderful, awful idea to her fellow…
3 awesome DC Elseworlds stories that need to be movies
So I’ve talked before about DC screwing around with their classic characters by throwing them into new settings that range from “plausible” to “this writer is clearly having a nervous breakdown, please get them help.” One of the best sandboxes…
How to survive a summer blockbuster
Summer is here and with it comes sun and laughter, unless you have that rare sun allergy and you’re kind of depressed about it. But also movies! Summer is traditionally the time for the biggest, eventiest event movies the studios…
Why movie villain schemes have gotten ridiculously complicated
If the Joker’s plan from 1989’s Batman is an obvious called strike right in the middle of the plate, The Dark Knight’s Joker’s plan is the equivalent of the infield fly rule.
Hit or Bomb? February 2017 movie predictions
Another new month is upon us, meaning it’s the time when I would normally go into a long-winded spiel about the kinds of movies you can expect over the next few weeks, but I think we all know the drill:…
Suicide Squad (2016): A flawed but fun end-of-summer blockbuster
Maybe I'm being too generous, but I think in light of the context that Suicide Squad was made in, it did the best it could with what it had, but really, it was capable of so much more.
VIDEO: Batman (1989)
More like The Joker Begins. Regardless, it's one of the great comic book movies of all time!
VIDEO: Top 5 villains who enjoy being villains
The second part in a mini-series celebrating heroes and villains who enjoy their chosen profession.
VIDEO: Stop freaking out about Suicide Squad
People are freaking out about the Suicide Squad movie and Jared Leto's Joker, and as usual, Sybil has all the answers.
Why Burton’s Batman will age better than Nolan’s
“It has the effect of reminding us while we’re watching a tightly-plotted crime drama that there is in fact a billionaire dressed up as a giant bat who refuses to use guns, fights criminals who have guns, and yet routinely emerges unscathed.”
How The Killing Joke ruined Batgirl
“Choosing such a horrifying image as a celebration is in incredibly poor taste. It comes across as a glorification of Batgirl’s humiliation and degradation.”
Batman (1989)
“Batman is a testament to how with enough hype, even a fundamentally mediocre film can break box office records and automatically become a ‘classic’ after the requisite number of years have passed.”
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