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Joss Whedon Changed Justice League So Much, Its Screenwriter Wanted His Name Off of It
Oscar-winning writer Chris Terrio was working on Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker when he saw, for the first and only time, a film he was credited with writing: 2017’s Justice League, directed by Joss Whedon. “I drove to the studio and I sat down and watched it a couple of weeks before release,” Terrio…
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The Nevers’ Display of Victorian Superpowers Is Both Exhausting and Intriguing
I think HBO’s upcoming “Victorian ladies with superpowers” show The Nevers needs to be updated to “Victorian ladies with superpowers whom people want to control, lock up, kill, exploit, or ignore, and also the loveable Nick Frost is playing some kind of murderous crime lord” show. Because goodness gracious is this second trailer for the…
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Zack Snyder Delves Into Justice League’s Ending — and What Could’ve Come After
Four years on from the release of Joss Whedon’s mangled Justice League — the ramifications of which are still being felt, both at Warner Bros. and among fandom circles alike — Zack Snyder’s Justice League has been unleashed upon the world. But this is a Zack Snyder project, so of course it’s far from over.
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It’s Well Past Time to Rethink ‘Auteur Theory’ and the Way Actresses Are Treated
This week, the Hollywood Reporter released a new interview with actress Shelley Duvall. To say “a rare interview” is a massive understatement. Duvall largely disappeared from the public eye in the ‘90s and stayed that way until Phil McGraw and his team of charlatans and opportunists subjected her to one of the most exploitative interviews…