Tag: wonder woman
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Wonder Woman 1984
Wonder Woman 1984 is the sequel to a movie that showed the Hollywood dummies that people will pay to see heroes beyond straight white dudes. Wonder Woman 1984 is a 2 ½ hour slog that takes most of the wonder out of the woman. More like, Blunder Woman Widescreen Weighty-Bore, amirite? The movie suffers from…
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Wonder Woman
Nuts to the haters! Wonder Woman proved to the world that people do want female action heroes (and that DC might yet have some promise). There were a lot of dumb questions and unfair expectations resting on the shoulders of Wonder Woman. Could she turn around the flailing DC Comics cinematic universe (creatively, not box…
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Is Feminism Weakening Wonder Woman?
We live in a time when the pop culture world is packed with ass-kicking heroines, from Scarlet Johansson’s Black Widow and The Walking Dead’s Michonne to Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and Hit-Girl from the Kick Ass flicks. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Xena: Warrior Princess aren’t that far in the rearview mirror. Wonder…