superhero fiction
-
Dakota Johnson Probably Won’t Do Another Superhero Movie After Madame Web
Count Dakota Johnson out of any future superhero movie discourse. After Madame Web became Sony’s latest Spider-verse flop, the movie got ripped apart by the internet despite a rising cult of fans calling the messy film camp. Most recently on Saturday Night Live, Johnson’s co-star Sydney Sweeney joked you probably “didn’t see” her in the…
-
Expect More of The Boys and Their Bloody TV Universe
Within a handful of years, Amazon’s The Boys has become an antiheroic hit, offering up a much meaner and sharper take on the superhero genre that the distinguished competition often cannot. And in typical superhero fashion, there’s much more from The Boys coming down the line beyond the third season beginning next week. Exciting, right?
-
The Sneaky Way Oscar Isaac Played Against Himself in Marvel’s Moon Knight
In Disney+ and Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight, Oscar Isaac stars as Steven Grant/Marc Spector, a superhero with dissociative identity disorder powered by ancient Egyptian myth. The role required the actor to commit to challenging character work opposite himself; in many scenes, he had to perform full sequences as Moon Knight and his multiple personalities. To…
-
The Creative and Inspiring People We Lost in 2021
2021, like 2020 before it, has been a bit of a rough year for us all, one in many ways defined by a continued sense of loss. As the year comes to a close, we’re looking back on a few of the notable actors, directors, artists, writers, and sci-fi icons we lost this year, in…