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December 2023

  • Los Angeles Premiere Of Warner Bros. "The Flash" - Arrivals<br>HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JUNE 12: James Gunn attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Warner Bros. "The Flash" at Ovation Hollywood on June 12, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

    Week in geek
    Is ‘cameo porn’ ruining superhero movies? James Gunn thinks so – and he should know

    ‘If a character is in film, they have to have a reason to be there,’ says the head of DC Studios. But is he creating a rod for his own back?

November 2023

  • Fine comic chops … Nicholas Hoult

    Week in geek
    Is Nicholas Hoult too fresh-faced to be the new Lex Luthor in Superman: Legacy?

    The 33-year-old is an excellent character actor – but can the kid from About a Boy ever really be a match for Superman? Or will it be like when Jesse Eisenberg was miscast in the same role in Dawn of Justice?

September 2023

  • David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan

    Week in geek
    The writers’ strike is over – is it OK to get excited about Superman: Legacy now?

    With filming rumoured to start in spring, we can expect to hear more casting decisions soon. But director James Gunn must learn from Zack Snyder’s mistakes if he wants Superman to be the keystone of an all new DC Universe

August 2023

  • in a publicity shot for Wonder Woman (2017).

    Week in geek
    Amazonian prime: why Wonder Woman 3 will be the star of the new-look DC multiverse

    There’s been a cull at DC under studio boss James Gunn, but Gal Gadot’s warrior princess stands tall, and her previously cancelled second sequel is back on

June 2023

  • ‘Upbeat throwback’ … David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan will hope to bring back a little joie de vivre

    Week in geek
    The arrival of a new Superman can’t distract us from The Flash’s dim box office

  • David Corenswet Rachel Brosnahan composite.

    Superman: Legacy: David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan to play leads

  • THE FLASH
Caption: (L-R) EZRA MILLER as Barry Allen/The Flash, EZRA MILLER as Barry Allen/The Flash and SASHA CALLE as Kara Zor-El / Supergirl in Warner Bros. Pictures’ action adventure “THE FLASH,” a Warner Bros.

    Week in geek
    The Flash’s box office struggles are a mess of DC’s own making

  • Ezra Miller arrives for the world premiere of The Flash

    Ezra Miller makes first public appearance to promote The Flash at the film’s premiere

April 2023

  • Going down in glory … Pom Klementieff, Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and Karen Gillan in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

    Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 review – James Gunn’s fun and energetic threequel

  • Lady Gaga and Joker: Folie à Deux film still

    Week in geek
    Can the Joker musical or Superman save the world from ‘superhero fatigue’?

March 2023

  • The definitive take … Christopher Reeve in Superman, 1978.

    Week in geek
    James Gunn must usher in nothing less than Superman’s big-screen second coming

    The Guardians of the Galaxy writer-director and DC Studios CEO has turned his focus to the company’s ultimate hero. But will anyone ever fill Christopher Reeve’s 45-year-old red boots?

February 2023

  • James Gunn, with a beard and glasses and wearing a T shirt with a rainbow and fangs, holding a microphone

    Week in geek
    James Gunn’s plans for DC are brave, bold and bereft of Batfleck – apparently

    Can the film-maker revolutionise DC with a slate of five movies, with new and old actors, that will interconnect superhero stories?

December 2022

  • Henry Cavill, right, and Ben Affleck in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

    Week in geek
    After ditching Henry Cavill’s Superman, can James Gunn really turn DC around?

  • Henry Cavill in a scene from 'The Witcher', premiering on Netflix.

    Henry Cavill won’t return to The Witcher despite losing Superman role

October 2022

  • Marvel Cinematic Universe Mega-Panel, Comic-Con San Diego, California, USA - 23 Jul 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by John Salangsang/REX/Shutterstock (13040985bs) James Gunn Marvel Cinematic Universe Mega-Panel, Comic-Con San Diego, California, USA - 23 Jul 2022

    Week in geek
    Bound for the reload: how DC’s new maestro James Gunn rebuilt his career

  • Manageable mise-en-scene … director James Gunn and Sean Gunn shooting Guardians of the Galaxy.

    Week in geek
    Does it really matter if Marvel’s stars act in a state of utter bewilderment?

August 2021

  • With The Suicide Squad, as well as TV shows like Watchmen and The Boys, it would seem the superhero genre is now in its own revisionist phase.

    Is The Suicide Squad the beginning of the end for the superhero movie?

    James Gunn’s gory, knowing reboot of the DC antihero adventure is part of a newer revisionist trend that suggests the genre might be going the way of the western

July 2021

  • Margot Robbie, centre, in The Suicide Squad.

    The Suicide Squad review – a slick meeting of sick minds

  • The Suicide Squad

    The Suicide Squad review – eyeball-blitzing supervillain reboot

February 2021

  • A movie made by hired guns, rather than hardcore comic book fans ... Suicide Squad.

    Week in geek
    Can James Gunn bring the Suicide Squad back to life?

    The Guardians of the Galaxy director has been given another motley crew to turn into box-office gold – but this time his task looks a lot tricker
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