Mixing absurd comedy, musical numbers ... Sheena (1984) Breaks Convention and Sets a Strong Tone Early on for Female-Led Superhero Movies Sheena attempted to bring the iconic jungle queen to ...

Comic book movies thrive on their action scenes ... its multifaceted fight scenes are underneath the comedy. It's a shock that Wonder Woman never got a theatrically-released solo film until ...

The result is a biting and witty workplace comedy that follows the cast and crew of Tecto, a movie about a superhero who can ... with the studio having “a woman problem” — too few female ...

That may sound overwhelming, but we haven't even mentioned all the superhero ... Movie makes clear, he's a privileged douchebag who's desperate to be loved? As well as being a slapstick comedy ...

Brie Larson starred in “Captain Marvel” in 2019, the first woman-led superhero ... Avengers movies. “Wonder Woman” was a critical moment for female action heroes in cinema, says Mizejewski, who is ...

In the dozen or so years between mid-aughts bombs Catwoman and Elektra and last weekend's Wonder Woman, we've had roughly 40 major superhero movies starring men. Fortunately, it looks like Wonder ...

It’s not just comedies — mid-budget movies, things like courtroom dramas, horror movies, etc, have been on the decline for years, in favor of wide-appealing blockbusters like superhero movies ...

HBO’s new comedy series The Franchise is about the making of Tecto: Eye of the Storm, a superhero movie for a barely ... and their beleaguered female co-star Quinn (Katherine Waterston) having ...

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Himesh Patel leads the comedy produced by Armando Iannucci ... and whether or not they’re embarrassed to be making a superhero movie (nobody is more embarrassed than Dag, which limits what ...

We were like, why do they get to be horny— And superhero movies, too. Like ‘Scott Pilgrim ... and it having be normalized of how horny women are, how we’re just as horny as men.

While superhero movies are easily the most popular movie genre, constant domination has made more than a few people feeling fatigued. But might there be a few transgressive superhero movies that ...