Tag: DCEU
REVIEW: 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 MoreNew Flash Trailer is All About Batman
Warner Bros. Discovery is hoping the Dark Knight will reverse DC’s cinematic downward spiral. Today, the beleaguered studio (although that could be almost any studio lately) released a new – and, presumably, final – trailer for Batman… I mean, The Flash, their next big superhero blockbuster ...
Read MoreBlue Beetle Trailer Reminds You That Blue Beetle is a Thing
Remember Blue Beetle, the other DC movie coming out this year? Me neither, but it’s got a trailer! Blue Beetle is the story of Jaime Reyes, who is given a cybernetic scarab beetle that attaches to him and turns him into a superhero (as near as I can tell; the trailer is a little jumbled). …...
Read MoreWhy Did Shazam!: Fury of the Gods Bomb?
There’s no spinning or gerrymandering this one; Shazam!: Fury of the Gods is a bomb. In terms of quality, I don’t think it should have been; I liked it very much (as did Tuggs, whose review you can read here), and unlike, say, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (or pretty much anything Marvel has...
Read MoreREVIEW: Shazam: Fury of the Gods (2023)
THATTUGGLIFE | Mar 20, 2023 | 2
Another year, another DC movie review from yours truly. When I say that I have zero problems with this film, I genuinely mean that. “But Tuggs!” you’ll say, “what about the FUN (I imagine you’ll hiss this word, like that little evil emoji with the horns and frowny face,...
Read MoreBen Affleck is Done with Batman and DC
Ben Affleck is done with superheroes. In an excellent interview with The Hollywood Reporter (in which he talks about the movie business, dishonest media, his new film Air, and the Grammys), Affleck declares that he will not be making any movies in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU. “I would not ...
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