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James Gunn, now co-ceo of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran, is shaking up the superhero scene with bold moves, including the exciting announcement of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow for the revamped DC Universe. The new DC Universe aims to reset the narrative with Gunn’s clear vision. This time he is going to feature a long-overdue spotlight on Supergirl alongside other anticipated projects.

While Supergirl isn’t as iconic as Superman, her journey has often been overlooked in the DC Universe. The 1984 Supergirl movie flopped both critically and financially, and although the CW’s Supergirl series ran for six successful seasons, it was just tailored for TV. This left fans craving for a cinematic portrayal of Supergirl. Now, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow offers a chance to give Kara Zor-El her long-deserved justice.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow | Credit: DC

With Superman kicking off the new era, it’s only fitting his...

Earlier today, we got the disappointing news that Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel - which is no longer officially titled "The Batman - Part II" - has been hit with a major delay, and now won't arrive in theaters until October 1, 2027.

Despite DC Studios co-head James Gunn taking to social media to state that the delay was simply down to the fact that the script hasn't been finished, speculation mounted that some recent rumors relating to Gunn wanting to bring star Robert Pattinson in as the Dcu's Dark Knight might be the real reason.

On last week's episode of The Hot Mic, co-host Jeff Sneider shared some of the things he's heard about the Batman situation, and he believes that Gunn does indeed want Pattinson in the Dcu - but Reeves is "resistant" to the idea.

Whether there is any truth to this or not, Daniel Richtman has heard that,...

James Gunn's announcement that a new actor would be cast as the Dcu's Batman for The Brave and the Bold movie was met with a mixed response. On the one hand, the prospect of a brand-new take on the Dark Knight being introduced to the burgeoning cinematic universe along with his fellow DC heroes is undeniably exciting. On the other, we already have a perfectly good Caped Crusader in The Batman star Robert Pattinson.

At the time, Gunn made it clear that Matt Reeves' Batverse would run alongside the Dcu as an "Elseworlds" franchise, but we have since heard conflicting reports about the status of our current big-screen Bat and DC Studios' plans to debut a new version of the iconic character.

On the latest episode of The Hot Mic, co-host Jeff Sneider shared some of the things he's heard about the Batman situation, and he believes that Gunn...

There's an awful lot of confusion surrounding plans for The Batman Part II. An article published by Entertainment Weekly around the time filmmaker Matt Reeves was promoting The Penguin suggested the sequel's script was finished; James Gunn, however, has repeatedly said no draft has been handed into DC Studios. 

This has led to some pretty wild theories about the movie being cancelled, with Gunn accused by some of sabotaging Reeves so he can focus on the Dcu-set The Brave and the Bold. 

It's a wild claim and makes zero sense when The Penguin received rave reviews, especially as Gunn made no secret of the fact DC Studios was involved in that show's production. Reeves has also been named as a producer on the upcoming Clayface movie. 

Gunn has now confirmed that the details shared by that EW reporter were "misconstrued." He'd later add that, while it's true DC Studios hasn't...

Despite concerns The Batman franchise might be scrapped to make room for DC Studios' The Brave and the Bold, James Gunn has remained resolute in his support for Matt Reeves and his Bat-verse plans. 

The Penguin was a huge hit on HBO, so short of Reeves choosing to walk away from the franchise, there's no reason to believe The Batman Part II won't be released in 2026 as planned (even though Gunn has confirmed he's still waiting to see a script). 

A positive update comes our way today from John Rocha and Jeff Sneider; apparently, casting has started for the movie, with Reeves planning to send out an offer for a lead role that could potentially be Part II's main villain. We don't have a name, but it does sound like whoever he's eyeing is a big actor. 

It's also said that shooting could begin as soon as February 2025, though that...

When DC Studios was formed at the start of 2023, fans were surprised to learn that The Batman franchise would continue alongside a new Dcu-set series of Caped Crusader adventures kicking off with Andy Muschietti's The Brave and the Bold. 

Adapting Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's Batman and Robin run, it promises to be a very different movie focusing on Bruce Wayne training his newly discovered 10-year-old son as his sidekick. Still, many fans have questioned why James Gunn didn't just take the opportunity to bring Robert Pattinson's Batman into the Dcu. 

Still, it makes sense for there to be two different Batman franchises, especially as it's hard to imagine Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson committing to whatever DC Studios has planned for the hero.

Talking to Josh Horowitz, Gunn confirmed that he did indeed consider bringing "The Batman" into the Dcu. 

"I've contemplated it, yeah. I contemplate everything and talk about everything,...

For a long time, Westerns were indisputably the most popular and widely enjoyed genre of movies that were being made. Throughout the 40s and 50s, the genre rose to immense prominence and birthed some classic Hollywood stars who managed to make their entire careers through this style of filmmaking - from Clint Eastwood to John Wayne, countless actors followed this same path. However, not every Western was an instant classic at this time. There were still many films that didnt quite live up to expectations, or perhaps simply havent aged perfectly, that cant quite be labeled as perfect.

Related 10 Best Westerns That Are Over 3 Hours Long

The Western genre lends itself to epic narratives, with great films over three hours long like Dances with Wolves making a case for longer Westerns.

Many of the best Westerns ever made are those that manage to blend the inherent scope and scale of the genre with more grounded,...

The quality of the restoration lives up to expectations. Red Sun has been returned to as close to its original state as possible.

In addition to the film there are two special features. The first is a short biopic of Toshiro Mifune. It is pleasant enough to watch but is a bit light on information. The other is On The Set Of Red Sun – Extract From Pour Le Cinéma. After 50 odd years this nine minutes of footage is all that remains of the onset interviews with cast and crew. It ends abruptly, mid sentence, crashing you back to the main menu.

The menu system is clean and easy to operate....

Red Sun is not one of the most well respected spaghetti westerns. Face facts: in their time none of the spaghetti westerns were well respected, just populist vehicles for sex and violence. Made primarily for European audiences, they portrayed the wild west as brutal and dangerous, populated by mercenary thugs. They depicted violence, cruelty and outright criminality. In particular Once Upon A Time In The West shows the expansion of the US as being built out of exploitation, suffering and greed. As an outside view of American society they run against the nation-building narratives of the Hollywood westerns. "To see oursels as ithers see us!" There are no white hats. Might is destructive and oppressive, not right.

What make Red Sun a film of interest is its unusual cast and premise. In 1954, taking inspiration from a number of westerns, Akira Kurosawa made the cinematic masterpiece Seven Samurai. Toshiro Mifune co-stars.

Studiocanal announces a stunning brand-new 4K restoration of the thrilling and unique western Red Sun as part of the Cult Classics Collection available on 4K Uhd Steelbook, Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital from 9th September to celebrate we are giving away a Steel Book edition!

Billed as the first East meets West Western, and directed by Terence Young, Red Sun is based on a true story from the American Wild West of 1870. When outlaw Link (Charles Bronson) is betrayed by his gang during a train robbery, he is forced by the Japanese Ambassador to help regain a priceless sword stolen by Link’s double-crossing partner Gauche (Alain Delon).

Link and the Ambassador’s bodyguard, Kuroda (Toshiro Mifune), travel the West in pursuit of Gauche, attempting to lure him out by taking his girlfriend (Ursula Andress) as hostage. Although Kuroda plans to kill Gauche straight away, Link needs him alive to find the loot from their last robbery.

Alain Delon, the striking French leading man known for his uncommonly beautiful, coldly calculating villains in Le Samouraï and Purple Noon, has died. As confirmed by his family to France’s Afp news agency, Delon died Sunday after years of health complications stemming from a 2019 stroke. He was 88.An icon of French cinema,...

A glimpse at upcoming UK Steelbook release dates until early 2024: here’s what’s getting the fancy treatment and when.

The incredibly fancy Steelbook format is the only choice for those needing a physical media release that doubles as a table tennis bat in a pinch. If that’s you, this list of all the upcoming UK Steelbook releases will be right up your alley.

Releases in this list cover Blu-ray and 4K, and are marked as such. Note that some Steelbooks sell out quickly, so just because they’re listed as upcoming here, there’s no guarantee of availability. Some store exclusives are also harder to track.

Also: We’ve started adding affiliate links. If you click on those, we benefit, and can spend more money paying more people to write more things for this website. No pressure, just hugely obliged.

Obviously in the current climate everything is subject to change,...

Black Country Communion — the supergroup made up of acclaimed musicians Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian — have announced their fifth studio album, aptly titled V. Ahead of its June 14th release, the band has released the lead single, “Stay Free.”

The upcoming LP marks Black Country Communion’s first album in seven years, following 2017’s Bcciv. It was produced by Kevin Shirley, who has helmed all five of the the band’s albums.

Shirley stated, “For a band that started out as a collection of the best practitioners of their instruments, they very quickly found a unique sound. This time around, it has more purpose, the riffs are tougher, and there are hooks! Yes, hooks! It’s the most cohesive record, full of soul and grit, and I think this is the one that’s going to be the benchmark for Black Country Communion.”

Hughes added, “In my opinion,...

Laird Koenig, who wrote “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane,” died in Santa Barbara on June 30, Jamie Dixon, the son of Koenig’s collaborator Peter L. Dixon, told Variety. He was 95.

Koenig was an American author and screenwriter whose novel was adapted into the 1976 Jodie Foster-led horror movie “The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.”

He was born on Sept. 14, 1927, in Seattle, and would go on to attend the University of Washington. Koenig worked in advertising before being approached by Peter L. Dixon, whom he would collaborate with extensively throughout his career, and went on to write for the adventure television series “Flipper.”

Koenig also wrote the screenplay for “The Cat” which starred Roger Perry, and the 1969 production of “The Dozens” which starred Al Freeman Jr., Morgan Freeman and Paula Kelly.

He notably wrote the screenplay for several Terence Young Films, including “Red Sun,” which starred Charles Bronson,...

Laird Koenig, who adapted his novel for the screenplay to the 1976 cult film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, a controversial horror thriller starring a teenage Jodie Foster, has died. He was 95.

Koenig died June 30 of natural causes in Santa Barbara, Jamie Dixon, the son of Koenig’s frequent writing partner, Peter L. Dixon, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Koenig also received a writing credit on three films directed by Terence Young: Red Sun (1971), starring Charles Bronson, Toshiro Mifune, Alain Delon and Ursula Andress; Bloodline (1979), starring Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara and James Mason; and Inchon (1981), starring Gazzara, Laurence Olivier and Jacqueline Bisset.

His 1970 novel The Children Are Watching, co-written with Dixon, was turned into the French film Attention Les Enfants Regardent (1978), starring Delon.

Taken from his 1974 novel — his first as a solo author — The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane starred Foster as a 13-year-old who lives...

Like the early works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rudolf Thome’s films owe a significant debt to the French New Wave, particularly Jean-Luc Godard’s penchant for irreverent genre deconstruction. In that vein, Thome’s Red Sun is an exercise in keeping things “medium cool,” holding both its erratic narrative and characters’ motivations at a Brechtian distance. The violence, when it comes, is perfunctory and decidedly nondramatic, paving the way for The American Friend, Wim Wenders’s abstract and stylized adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game.

After drifting into Munich, Thomas (Marquard Bohm) heads straight for the Take Five nightclub, where he renews his relationship with his ex-girlfriend, Peggy (Uschi Obermaier). Little does this rambling man realize that, by crashing at her pad, he’s stumbled into a truly bizarre living arrangement. Peggy and her three roommates—statuesque Christine (Diana Körner), redheaded Sylvie (Sylvia Kekulé), and sprightly Isolde (Gaby Go...

Almost twelve years after the launch of the first game in the series, the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection is being released as a massive collection of all 10 mainline games, freshly remastered and with extra content and even a new mode added. Developed and published by Capcom, this set of games allows fans of the originals as well as new players to experience the series on the Nintendo Switch, PS4, or PC. The collection even gives the ability to smooth those pixelated edges with an optional high-resolution filter.

The Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection has a lot of games in it, but the menus for selecting between the games are very clear and easy to use, with a 3D Mega Man there to help guide players. Each game has been crafted to have a seamless feel that makes it easy to forget they weren't all created at the same time.

The 100 Season 6 Trailer 2 The second TV show trailer for The 100: Season 6  has been released by The CW. This trailer for Season 6 of The 100 answers the question of the Red Sun madness that takes hold of Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and the others that drop [...]

Continue reading: The 100: Season 6 TV Show Trailer 2: Red Sun Madness Grips the Survivors; Bloodreina Faces Her Past [The CW]...

We finally got a glimpse of “Shogun World” in the latest episode of “Westworld,” and the idea to mash up the two universes isn’t just a coincidence. There’s a long history of Westerns borrowing from samurai cinema and the other way around, with Akira Kurosawa studying the work of John Ford, which in turn led to many of Kurosawa’s movies to be remade as Spaghetti Westerns. The cowboy and the samurai are each lone wanderers in a lawless world, so it makes sense that the themes would crossover. Here are 10 instances in which the West met the East.

“The Magnificent Seven” (1960) and “Seven Samurai” (1954)

Akira Kurosawa’s landmark film “Seven Samurai” was highly influential on modern action cinema, but its most direct descendant was John Sturges’s “The Magnificent Seven,” starring Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Eli Wallach. The film is a remake but represents...

By David Kozlowski | 28 July 2017

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This week our emphasis is on Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese filmmaker who's works have inspired generations of directors, screenwriters, and actors. Kurosawa's films have been adpapted and remade dozens of times, and we hope that this week's column gives you...

By Fred Blosser

When Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather” emerged as a surprise box-office smash in the early months of 1972, studios and distributors hustled to meet popular demand for more movies about life in the Mob. In New York, a dubbed print of Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 film “Le Samourai” was hurriedly retitled and screened as “The Godson” in a masterful example of bait-and-switch marketing. Melville’s chilly, claustrophobic picture about a hit man portrayed by Alain Delon is a fine crime drama, but it had no connection to Coppola’s picture or, for that matter, to any aspect of American Mafia lore at all. “The Valachi Papers,” based on Peter Maas’ bestselling nonfiction book, followed as a more legitimate successor. Rushed through production by Dino De Laurentiis in spring and summer 1972, the film was scripted by Stephen Geller and directed by Terence Young. Shooting largely took place at De Laurentiis’ Rome studio.

Criterion has released their annual New Year teaser image hinting at titles we can expect from the boutique distributor over the course of the new year and the most easily recognizable titles include David Cronenberg's Scanners, an upgraded version of Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock, Howard Hawks' Red River and a box set celebrating Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, which would seem to suggest Blu-ray editions of Mr. Hulot's Holiday and Mon Oncle. I'd say we may be able to expect Daniel Petrie's A Raisin in the Sun and I can't tell if the deer in the bushes suggest The Deer Hunter or not. The beatles in the grass could suggest Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night and the girl with the long black hair at the picnic could mean Hideo Nakata's Ringu. The red sun seems almost obviously Terence Young's Red Sun...

I think everyone remembers where they were August 31st, 2003 when they heard that Charles Bronson had died. I was visiting my brother in Atlanta when my nephew knocked on my door and informed me that CNN had announced his death. I collapsed into a sobbing heap. Bronson was my hero, my muse, my role model. Hollywood’s brightest star would shine no more. It’s hard to believe he’s been gone ten years.

Charles Bronson was the unlikeliest of movie stars. Of all the leading men in the history of Hollywood, Charles Bronson had the least range as an actor. He rarely emoted or even changed his expression, and when he did speak, his voice was a reedy whisper. But Charles Bronson could coast on presence, charisma, and silent brooding menace like no one’s business and he wound up the world’s most bankable movie star throughout most of the 1970’s.

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive follow-up boasts plenty of lurid ultraviolence but precious little originality

Well, I thought, after Only God Forgives, that makes two movies in a row Nicolas Winding Refn has got through without disembowelling a single person. Well done. Such restraint. And yet … Elsewhere, two men have a total of three arms subtracted by sword. A raped and murdered Thai prostitute is glimpsed in a vast lake of blood, and soon thereafter her killer is seen horribly mutilated, maimed, murdered and enucleated, the latter being pretty much my personal final frontier in the realm of movie ultraviolence (you can eat my brains and stew my flesh all the live-long day, but for pity's sake leave my eyeballs alone). And then it happens again, on screen this time, to a man whose all four limbs have been skewered to his chair with steel chopsticks.

Somewhere in here is...

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive follow-up boasts plenty of lurid ultraviolence but precious little originality

Well, I thought, after Only God Forgives, that makes two movies in a row Nicolas Winding Refn has got through without disembowelling a single person. Well done. Such restraint. And yet … Elsewhere, two men have a total of three arms subtracted by sword. A raped and murdered Thai prostitute is glimpsed in a vast lake of blood, and soon thereafter her killer is seen horribly mutilated, maimed, murdered and enucleated, the latter being pretty much my personal final frontier in the realm of movie ultraviolence (you can eat my brains and stew my flesh all the live-long day, but for pity's sake leave my eyeballs alone). And then it happens again, on screen this time, to a man whose all four limbs have been skewered to his chair with steel chopsticks.

Somewhere in here is...

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is a monthly newspaper run by Steve DeBellis, a well know St. Louis historian, and it.s the largest one-man newspaper in the world. The concept of The Globe is that there is an old historic headline, then all the articles in that issue are written as though it.s the year that the headline is from. It.s an unusual concept but the paper is now in its 25th successful year! Steve and I collaborated last year on an all-Vincent Price issue of The Globe and I.ve been writing a regular movie-related column since. Since there is no on-line version of The Globe, I post all of my articles here at We Are Movie Geeks as well. In honor of the 40th anniversary of Blueberry Hill, the landmark St. Louis restaurant and music club that.s filled with pop culture memorabilia, this month.s St.

In many ways, the western is a dead genre, but I like to think of it as the genre that just won’t die. Like trying to put down the toughest, meanest gunslinger in the old west, the western film keeps popping back up in the least expected times and places… but, not always in the traditional style we’re used to seeing. Call it survival of the fittest, but the western is far from dead, as is apparent with Jon Favreau’s new Cowboys & Aliens, which opens this Friday, July 29th, combining the western with the science-fiction, creating a crossover with twice the fun. In honor of the opening of this rare hybrid, we’re looking at our favorite Western Crossover films this week in Top Ten Tuesday.

Honorable Mention: The Good, The Bad & The Weird

This modern ode to the western from Korean filmmaker Jee-woon Kim is less...

Charles Bronson was the unlikeliest of movie stars. Of all the leading men in the history of Hollywood, Charles Bronson had the least range as an actor. He rarely emoted or even changed his expression, and when he did speak, his voice was a reedy whisper. But Charles Bronson could coast on presence, charisma, and silent brooding menace like no one.s business and he wound up the world’s most bankable movie star throughout most of the 1970’s. Bronson did not rise quickly in the Hollywood ranks. His film debut was in 1951 and he spent the next two decades as a solid character actor with a rugged face, muscular physique and everyman ethnicity that kept him busy in supporting roles as indians, convicts, cowboys, boxers, and gangsters. It wasn’t until he was in his late 40’s, after the international success of Once Upon A Time In The West...