15 h. ago James Gunn films ranked from dark hidden gem to 'action masterpiece'

The filmmaker has written and directed some huge hits

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20 h. ago Superman's American football collection drops as James Gunn film hits cinemas

James Gunn's Superman reboot has finally landed in cinemas, with David Corenswet starring as the eponymous Man of Steel

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60 h. ago Superman star David Corenswet reveals why director James Gunn told him to ‘shut up’ on set

Actor didn’t take director James Gunn’s bluntness ‘personally’

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4 d. ago Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarterHere is a film occupying the heartsinking Venn diagram overlap between franchise exhaustion and AI soullessness: a film fatally unconvinced of the reason for its own existence. We’d all hoped that writer-director James Gunn, who was in charge of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, might put some wind back beneath Superman’s wings – or in his cape, or under his boots, or at any rate somewhere near his costumed person. The Man of Steel needed a fresh start after his self-cancelling contest in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, and getting muddled together with a lot of other utility superheroes in Justice League a year later – though I will admit to enjoying the pure hubristic craziness of the lengthy Zack Snyder cut of that movie when it saw the light of day.But this? If it was to be a reboot then...

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4 d. ago James Gunn’s Superman reboot will make you believe in superhero movies again

David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult lead a movie that doesn’t just serve as a referendum for superhero films, but for the cinematic future of DC as a whole

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4 d. ago Who needs kryptonite when the reviews are this bad? Woke Superman reboot is savaged in brutal early review as hard

The new film - directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet as the fictional superhero, with Rachel Brosnahan as precocious reporter Lois Lane - will go on general release from July 11.

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4 d. ago James Gunn responds to criticism over ‘immigrant’ Superman: ‘It’s about kindness’

Online commentators have called director’s comments about forthcoming film too ‘woke’

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5 d. ago James Gunn names the three things he never wants to see in a superhero film again

‘We have watched a million movies with characters who don’t have their upbringing explained,’ complained the Superman director

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5 d. ago James Gunn confirms Superman is about an ‘immigrant’: ‘Yes, it’s about politics’

Superman will be released in cinemas on 11 July 2025

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1 week ago James Gunn names actor he thinks would be a ‘great’ Wonder Woman

Gal Gadot’s replacement in the role is yet to be confirmed

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2 w. ago James Gunn reveals how his ‘terrible, uncontrollable dog’ shaped Superman script

The DC Studios head adopted his own dog, Ozu, around the time he began working on the superhero reboot

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3 w. ago Double trouble: can James Gunn really make two separate Batman movies work?

It’s suggested that the Gunn-produced The Brave and the Bold will be set within the DCU while Matt Reeves’s sequel to The Batman will exist as a DC Elseworlds storyThere was a time when having two Batmen in your cinematic universe would have felt like a clerical error. But in James Gunn’s brave and bold new DCU, having several Bruce Waynes is increasingly looking less like an irritating glitch and more like a deliberate choice.Gunn has been clear for some time that he sees no issue with two Caped Crusaders striding into multiplexes at the same time. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is down to the fact that Matt Reeves’s The Batman – an insular, noirish, Kurt Cobain-obsessed but relatively real-world take on the Dark Knight – proved pretty popular with audiences just prior to Gunn being handed the keys to the DC kingdom. But who am I to quibble? Sure, this might be a universe destined to feature cavalcades of superheroes who exist in a magical world of shimmering cosplay, but if...

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3 w. ago James Gunn responds to Zack Snyder fans attempting to sabotage Superman: ‘We’ll survive’

A minority of Synder fans called on others to ‘stand up and fight’ in protest to the new movie

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3 w. ago Superman star calls out actors who star in superhero movies and then complain about them

The actor is playing Lois Lane in James Gunn’s forthcoming Superman film

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3 w. ago ‘Matt’s slow’: James Gunn makes surprising admission about The Batman 2 amid cancellation rumors

Sequel to Matt Reeves’s Oscar-nominated ‘The Batman’ is expected to arrive in theaters in 2026

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