Recently Zack Snyder was in the news announcing his plans for a “real sort of faithful retelling of that Arthurian mythological concept,” according to multiple sources. I and many others immediately understood that Snyder was already off-course, because there is no...
The little boy gazed up at the beautiful girl seated cross-legged on a tree stump. She wore tights, a sparkly skirt, and enormous plastic wings. Her wild hair was decorated with twigs, leaves and flowers. Her small, pointed face was painted with make-up. Strands of...
Someone clever once said, apropos of the Justice League, that the only thing sillier than an adult dressing up in colorful tights to fight crime, was a whole roomful of such folk. That's a good analogy for films, TV shows and books that posit elaborate secret...