As Tom Petty said it best, the waiting is the hardest part. Just ask fans of the D.C. Universe, who expected to see Wonder Woman 1984 in December 2019 and have endured a year’s worth of overoptimistic postponements. After watching their proposed dates of June 5, Aug. 14 and Oct. 2 devoured by the pandemic, Warner Brothers took the industry-upending move of dropping the film as … [Read more...]
‘Wonder Woman’: An honest-to-gods feminist superhero
The superhero origin story is the most durably familiar of the comic-book tent pole narratives. Even the best ones spin off the same formula: The naïve title character discovers her powers, trains exhaustively, learns the power-hungry ways of mortals, and grows virtually indestructible until she finally meets her match against an arch-villain bent on world domination. The final … [Read more...]