Tag: Watchmen
Animated Watchmen Trailer Brings the Comic to Life
The Minutemen are leaping off the comic page again, and this time, they’re a bit more animated. At today’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival (the same one that saw the debut of footage from The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim), DC Animation released a brief teaser for the a...
Read MoreZack Snyder Thinks Batman is Irrelevant if he Doesn’t Kill
Zack Snyder appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and talked about, among other things, his DC films. The segment that’s setting off alarm bells in superhero fans is when he talks about Batman and his rule against killing. In Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Snyder’s version of Batman – pl...
Read MoreJohn Boyega to Reprise Finn in Rey Movie?
Following John Boyega’s softening towards Star Wars and the announcement of a new film starring Rey, John Rocha, host of the podcast The Hot Mic, has heard from sources that Boyega may be the male lead of the movie. On this week’s episode of the entertainment podcast, Jeff Sneider filled...
Read MoreThe Emmys and Poetic Justice
The 2020 Emmy Awards aired this Sunday, and like the rest of the world, I didn’t watch it. The Emmys never appealed to me in the same way the Oscars did (before a celebration of cinema turned into a bunch of limousine liberals trying to out-woke each other). It doesn’t feel like an event, especi...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 9, “See How They Fly”
HBO’s official description of “See How They Fly,” the Watchmen season (series?) finale, highlights one of the larger sticking points with the sequel series: “Everything ends. For real this time.” In trying to carve out a reason for itself to exist, Watchmen the show undermines the original...
Read MoreREVIEW: Watchmen – Season 1, Episode 8 “A God Walks into Abar”
“A God Walks into Abar” fills in plenty of Watchmen’s blanks, particularly the ones last week’s episode created when it revealed that Angela’s husband Cal is actually Doctor Manhattan. There are still elements that don’t make sense, and Angela remains a flat character, but it’s an ente...
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