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The Flash: FLASHPOINT (Paradox) | Comic Lore and History REVISTITED
Jed | Hollywood Scholar | Jun 23, 2023 | 0
INTRODUCTION “There’s only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance. And some things happen because we make them happen. Barry Allen was once haunted by the past. But when he became the Flash, he left the ghosts behind. He found love. A family. And for the first time ...
Read MoreThe Flash and Elemental are Massive Bombs
Dads stayed away from the movies this Father’s Day weekend – along with everyone else. Two big movie premiered on Friday: Warner Bros./DC’s The Flash and Disney/Pixar’s Elemental. Neither was tracking well; The Flash was predicted to bring in $70 million, while Elemental was looking at a $35...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash (2023)
I’m not sure I’d call The Flash a mixed bag; that implies a fairly equal good-to-bad ratio, and The Flash is more bad than good by a wide margin. And what’s bad is abysmal, not only embracing many of the grating modern superhero movie tropes but hooking them up to rockets and shooting them int...
Read MoreKevin Smith Teases Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever
DC movies have more alternate cuts than Blade Runner (well, maybe). On his Fat Man Beyond podcast – formerly Fat Man on Batman, which was a much better title, although apparently, they had to change it for legal reasons – Kevin Smith told his co-host, Marc Bernardin, that he has a copy of the �...
Read MoreThe Flash’s Unusual Marketing and Potential Future
It’s almost becoming a cliché to say that the behind-the-scenes or other real-world events surrounding a movie make a better story than the film itself, but the way Warner Bros. is marketing The Flash, as detailed in a Variety piece, is interesting. A lot of this is born of necessity because of t...
Read MoreRUMOR: Andy Muschietti Directing The Brave and the Bold?
DC Studios has an awful lot of faith in a movie that’s tracking to underperform. The newest DC rumor is that Andy Muschietti, the director of The Flash, will also helm the next Batman film (outside of the sequel to The Batman and Joker: Folie à Deux), The Brave and the Bold. Muschietti directing ...
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