It’s funny how just the other day, a deleted scene was released for The Avengers that would’ve basically started the movie in media res, with the story already in motion and the characters now looking back to ask how it came to all this destruction and death and CGI. It’s a common, even overexposed trick—how [...]

The time: Shortly before Joss Whedon was hired to direct Wonder Woman. The who: Laeta Kalogridis, a long-time collaborator of James Cameron, who worked on Birds of Prey, Bionic Woman, Alexander, and Avatar. Also, Shutter Island, just to break the streak of stuff that you have to fight with your friends to decide if it’s [...]

Oy. Oyyyyyy. Okay, I’ll concede that a Wonder Woman movie is a tough prospect. What people like about the George Perez reboot—that it’s epic and mythological—could come off as complicated and confusing on screen. But if Lord of the Rings can spend ten lousy minutes on the backstory… I’ll stop, I’ll stop. Now, the idea [...]

As a movie fan, one of my favorite hobbies is looking at where projects go left instead of right. For each movie that gets made, there are ten more that are stuck in development hell, often different versions of what finally reaches the screen. So it is with Black Widow, who came achingly close to [...]

Okay, to review a superhero show, you either have to explain some of the comic to tell how the show has deviated from it, or if the show is faithful, you can just report the facts and point out a few details. That said… The Not-So-Brief History of Wonder Woman The thing to understand is [...]