Maybe you recognize him as the double-crossing priest from Peaky Blinders. Or as the kind-hearted king whose skin fell off in House of the Dragon. Paddy Considine has long been one of the top “oh hey it’s that guy” actors of our time, but over the past few weeks, he’s kicked things up a notch with a remarkable string of bangers. It’s the Summer of Considine, everyone. It’s hit the...

Superman is off to a great start at the box office. James Gunn kicked off his reboot of the DC Universe with the second best opening of his career, and the best ever for a solo Superman movie. According to Deadline, Superman made $123 million in the U.S. over its opening weekend, and a further $95 million internationally for a total worldwide box office of $217 million. That makes it...

The New York Times recently published the results of a poll determining the 100 best movies of the 21st century so far, and the #1 slot went to Bong Joon Ho’s Best Picture winner Parasite. (It topped the paper’s subsequent readers’ poll, too.) As it happens, Bong Joon Ho also voted in the poll, and the Times made his ballot (along with many others) available online. He lists the 2005...

Lois Lane in James Gunn’s Superman cracked me up and annoyed me at the same time. My initial take on the 2025 version of Lois (played by Rachel Brosnahan) was that she’s an absolutely terrible journalist. Even by the standards of a comic book movie featuring a woman who can turn her hands into buzzsaws (because something-something nanotech, don’t examine it too closely), Lois’ idea of reporting in this movie...

Superman is the most powerful superhero in DC Comics, able to go toe to toe with its most powerful villains, like Darkseid and Brainiac. That’s why it’s surprising that his nemesis is Lex Luthor, a man without any superpowers. The best versions of Luthor across comics, television, and movies make him a threat precisely because of that disparity. He fights Superman with wealth and connections rather than with fists or...

Don’t feel guilty for staying inside on a beautiful day — give yourself a break and soak up some television. Just remember to take your Vitamin D part-way through whatever you decide to binge-watch. As the streaming business continues to collapse, evolve, and transform (did you see Max became HBO Max again?), Netflix has proven itself yet again to be a growing home for more and more licensed and original...

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. The National Geographic documentary Jaws @ 50, which shows how the first summer blockbuster was made and explores its legacy, swims onto Disney Plus this weekend. You can also just embrace the silliness of the genre Jaws established with Hot Spring...

James Gunn’s Superman avoids rehashing the Man of Steel’s origin story, instead opening with a simple round of on-screen exposition explaining that Kal-El arrived on Earth 30 years ago, and has been known as the most powerful superhero on the planet for the past three years. But the film’s intro also contains another detail that will shape the rebooted DC Universe in film and on TV: People in this setting...

We were supposed to get a Black Superman movie. During a 2021 interview with Polygon, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was hired by Warner Bros. to write the film, opened up about his excitement over the opportunity. His greatest hope for what would ultimately a major twist on Superman’s cinematic legacy: that people could “have an experience of their own with the art” and allow his “Superman to have...

Before James Gunn was tapped by Warner Bros. and DC to revamp its superhero slate of films and TV series, Warner Bros. tried to poach someone else from Marvel: Kevin Feige. After Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s Justice League flopped in 2017 — it made about $660 million and has a 39% on Rotten Tomatoes — Warner Bros. met with Feige “to try to convince him to switch sides,” according...