Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
Although the behind-the-scenes details are sketchy, we know that 2017’s Justice League, though credited to Zack Snyder as the director, was more of the direction that the studio wanted the franchise to go than...
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Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (2020)
Birds of Prey is directed by former Wall Street Journal reporter Cathy Yan, who follows up her acclaimed indie film, Dead Pigs. The film is a spin-off from the commercially successful but critically maligned...
Joker (2019)
Joker is a gritty, grimy, and nihilistic R-rated origin story on the classic “Batman” villain, directed by Todd Phillips from a script he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Set in a crime-ridden Gotham City sometime...
Justice League (2017)
Justice League fulfills the promise made, albeit in perhaps too short an order, of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice at putting together the titular super-team of Earth’s mightiest heroes of the DC Extended Universe in one...
The LEGO Batman Movie (2017)
Spinning off from the surprise 2014 hit, The LEGO Movie, The LEGO Batman Movie gives further exploration into one of its small bit characters, Batman (again voiced here by Will Arnett, TNMT: Out of the Shadows), and...
Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad is the third official film in the DC Extended Universe, a bit tangential to what’s come before, save for a couple of Superman/Aquaman references, as well as the appearance of Bruce Wayne/Batman (Affleck, Gone...
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Just as Disney’s brand of Marvel films has sought to build an interconnected cinematic universe of characters that will team up on occasion and cross over into each other’s films, now Warner Bros/DC Entertainment...
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Years ago, I had claimed that, despite its faults, X-Men: The Last Stand was the best third film in a superhero series to date, which goes more to show how ideas seem to dissipate once the...
The Dark Knight (2008)
It’s difficult to believe that, with all of the superhero franchises that have come out prior to 2008, the creative minds didn’t employ the strategy of saving the most popular and interesting villain for...
Batman Beyond: The Movie (1999)
Batman Beyond: The Movie is a bit of a misnomer, as it isn’t so much a movie as it is five (well, actually six) episodes from the first season of the WB animated superhero series,...