Tag: wonder woman
Retro Hugos see Wonder Woman, Bradbury and Little Prince, honoured in Dublin.
Antoine de St-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, comic book superheroine Wonder Woman, and Ray Bradbury’s short story “R is for “Rocket” were among the works and people honoured at the retrospective Hugo Awards for works created in 1943. The awards were presented at the opening ceremony of Dublin 2019 – the Irish Worldcon, aka the 77th […]
Wonder Woman (2017) (a film review by Mark R. Leeper).
Zach Snyder directs the film adaptation of the comic book super-hero Diana, played by Gal Gadot. As introspective as we could expect from a super-hero film, ‘Wonder Woman’ takes place in the closing days of WW1 when Diana follows American flyer Steve Trevor to the trenches of the French Army where the Germans are brewing […]
Wonder Woman (2017) (Blu-ray film review).
I have to confess from the start that I’ve been pretty much avoiding the latest batch of films based on DC Comics characters although have been told the ‘Wonder Woman’ movie is a good stepping in point. Much of the story follows the various origin points of the comicbook version. Diana (from adulthood, actress Gal […]
Wonder Woman interviews: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Patty Jenkins and Charles Roven.
Via the wonder of the intertubes, we bring you interviews with the people behind the new Wonder Woman film. Yes, DC have actually gone and made a decent superhero flick (if you discount the occasional non-Turkey Batman movies – usually featuring the Joker). Gal Gadot and Chris Pine interviewed. Robin Wright interviewed. Patty Jenkins interviewed. […]
Your ticket sales are a wonder, Wonder Woman!
Director Patty Jenkins’s comic-book movie, Wonder Woman, soared to the top of the box office on its opening weekend, earning £6,180,000 in cinemas across the UK and Ireland, and still climbing. The Warner Bros. Pictures release, which stars Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman and Chris Pine as her ally Steve Trevor, marks, […]
Wonder Woman movie (last trailer).
Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered island paradise, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Fighting alongside […]
Wonder Woman: trailer (2017).
Here’s another trailer for next year’s Wonder Woman movie set during World War One. Sneaking suspicion this one might be fan-made, though.
DC Comics goes steampunk loopy.
It’s only seven years since The Court of the Air‘s best-selling success pushed steampunk from being a Fan in-joke to a burgeoning literary, cosplay and social movement, but now DC Comics are throwing their weight behind the genre with steampunk covers for large swathes of the New 52 crew. There’s everything from Steampunk Batman to […]
