The New Supergirl Movie May Try to Reinvent Big-Screen Flying in the DCU, But It's Been a Long Road to Get Here From There
Krypto and Jason Momoa’s Lobo stand out in a dark origin story that mixes genres but falls short of the recent Superman revival.
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The New Supergirl Movie May Try to Reinvent Big-Screen Flying in the DCU, But It's Been a Long Road to Get Here From There
You will believe a man can fly. Or in this case, a girl.But not just fly. In Supergirl (review), the latest movie from James Gunn’s DCU, the Girl of Steel has her own particular style of flying, using the ability as a sort of unique form of martial arts at times.“I kind of liked her having her own flying style, because I think she's so herself in every sense of the word,” star Milly Alcock recently told me. “She can only ever be exactly who she …
Supergirl: Straighten Up and Fly Right
Forget superhero movies for a second. There are so many stories about sons born into privilege who waste their youth on pleasures and have to grow up, however belatedly, to be worthy of their family legacies. (Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part One is a good example.) How many such stories are there about daughters? Aren’t they as likely to need straightening out? It’s true that for centuries such stories weren’t needed because expectations for girls w…
'Supergirl' Review: Messy DC Movie Suffers From Muddled Action, Shoehorned Jason Momoa
The messiness of “Supergirl,” DC’s second film in its new era after last year’s successful “Superman” redo, is reflected in the conflicting feelings one may take away from the film. It’s competently directed by Craig Gillespie, but inelegant and lacking the visceral action that made “Superman” so thrilling — most of the fights are blurry or marred by flying-related CGI or lazy fight tracking that follows along the edge of the action rather than …
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