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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom Has Its Moments, But Mostly Fizzles
At one moment in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, characters are running through a mutated jungle, chased by lion-sized cockroaches while avoiding violent, human-eating plants. In another moment, multiple characters are standing around, their hair flowing wildly, delivering wooden dialogue that’s almost as painful for them to say as it is for us to hear.…
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Black Manta’s Scrapped Solo Movie Will Live On in Aquaman 2
Earlier in the week, Warner Bros. revealed the first trailer of Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom. When director James Wan talked to the press, he mentioned that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II’s Black Manta would serve as the film’s big bad after being more of a henchman to Ocean Master (Patrick Wilson) in the original film. And…
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Heroes From Real-Life and Fiction Who Had a Great 2021
It’s been a year of highs and lows, but some — whether they were the fictional stars of our favourite stories this year, or the real-world figures behind them — made the most out of the wild times in which we live to make 2021 a highlight. Here’s a few of Gizmodo’s select 2021 heroes,…
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Aquaman’s James Wan Was Secretly Working on a Black Manta Movie
We all thought the news was too weird to be true and, apparently, it was. Back in early 2019, we found out that hot on the heels of James Wan’s DC film Aquaman making a big box office splash (get it?), Warner Bros. was developing a smaller-scale, horror spinoff based on the creatures who appeared…