DC Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/dc/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:53:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png DC Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/dc/ 32 32 Watch Milly Alcock take to space in the first trailer for ‘Supergirl’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/watch-milly-alcock-take-to-space-in-the-first-trailer-for-supergirl/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:47:58 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042800 Begun, the Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer deluge has. Get ready to see a shitload of new previews for 2026’s biggest releases over the next few days, as every single studio wants to get as many eyeballs as possible on their new features, given that the Avatar movies defy economic laws and make billions of dollars no matter what. There’s Spielberg’s new alien movie, Avengers: Doomsday, and more on the horizon, but the freshly acquired Warner Bros. decided to be […]

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]]> ‘Superman’ Review: James Gunn gives DC a great fresh start https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/08/superman-review-james-gunn-gives-dc-a-great-fresh-start/ Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041952 What you may first notice about James Gunn’s Superman is that it doesn’t exactly have a first act. A la Matt Reeves’ The Batman, it begins with the Man of Steel (David Corenswet) just three years into his career, in a universe in which he’s not the first superhero (that happened centuries ago, according to Gunn’s new timeline), and he’s feeling the pain of perfection. He’s just gotten his ass kicked by some power-suited representative of a small Eastern European […]

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]]> Here’s everything you missed at Comic-Con this weekend https://vanyaland.com/2024/07/29/heres-everything-you-missed-at-comic-con-this-weekend/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:09:51 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039096 If you smelled something truly fresh wafting across the country from San Diego this weekend, it wasn’t just the sweat-filled costumes of all the cosplayers airing out on hotel balconies across the city: it was fresh, hot, news out of this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. That’s right, the annual celebration of nerdery that has been almost wholly co-opted by studios and other companies actually had some real weight to it — there were big announcements by Marvel and… uh, a […]

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]]> That ‘Joker: Folie A Deux’ trailer isn’t funny anymore https://vanyaland.com/2024/07/23/that-joker-folie-a-deux-trailer-isnt-funny-anymore/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:54:21 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10039064 Get ready for some discourse, folks: In case you’ve forgotten — and you probably have — in the stew that is the state of the world at the moment, we’re finally getting more Arthur Fleck this fall. That’s right: Just in time for the first R-rated Superhero extravaganza to blow up box office records (only Deadpool could unseat Jim Caviezel Jesus), we’ve got a brand new trailer for Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie A Deux, which gives you a clearer look […]

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]]> ‘Blue Beetle’ Review: The new bug on the block’s alright https://vanyaland.com/2023/08/18/blue-beetle-review-the-new-bug-on-the-blocks-alright/ Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:05:55 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10035760 There’s a weird parallel in how Angel Manuel Soto’s Blue Beetle and its release at this point in the DCEU resembles its in-universe comic debut. See, this version of the character – there’s been three in the DC Universe – emerged in 2006 in the aftermath of Infinite Crisis, one of those line-wide big events and continuity shake-ups that attracted nerds looking to see superheroes fight each other and/or die, and repelled potential new readers because of how much legwork […]

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]]> Don’t squash the ‘Blue Beetle’ trailer until you’ve watched it https://vanyaland.com/2023/04/03/dont-squash-the-blue-beetle-trailer-until-youve-watched-it/ Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:40:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10034011 Legacy comic book characters — which are essentially the folks who fill the suits when the original hero gets taken down for the count (maybe for an arc or two if they’re lucky) — typically have a pretty rough go of it. Some fans hate them because of how resistant they can be to change; normies don’t recognize them as the heroes they watched on TV back in the day and get confused, and writers and editors often fail to […]

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]]> Smell what The Rock’s been cooking in the ‘Black Adam’ trailer https://vanyaland.com/2022/06/08/smell-what-the-rocks-been-cooking-in-the-black-adam-trailer/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:49:02 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030888 Well, no one can argue with the fact that Rocky Maivia knows how beneficial a well-timed heel turn can be: After all, we wouldn’t be talking about Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson if it weren’t for one that happened in the mid-’90s. And a jolt is just what he needs: Look, we love the guy, but The Rock’s been… kind of stagnant when it comes to his film roles recently. So, what do you do? You go full anti-hero, as he’s […]

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]]> ‘Joker 2’ is happening and somehow is not called ‘Joker-er’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/06/08/joker-2-is-happening-and-somehow-is-not-called-joker-er/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 13:28:35 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10030884 If you heard a cacophony of deafening chirps after finishing your dinner Tuesday night, don’t worry: This ain’t Hitchcock and you don’t have to worry about ravens and crows and all other sorts of fowl breaking into your home and turning you into a walking and talking bird feeder. Those cries were actually the tweets of the Twitter flock, aghast at Todd Phillips’ tenacity for spoiling their evenings after he took to the ‘gram to announce that, yes, Joker 2 […]

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]]> ‘The Batman’ Spoiler-Free Review: Holy fantastic moviegoing experience, Batman https://vanyaland.com/2022/03/01/the-batman-spoiler-free-review/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 18:53:48 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10029478 To be perfectly honest, Matt Reeves’ The Batman reads, on paper, like the kind of film that would piss off legions of critics. It is long, especially for the first installment of a new iteration of the character, clocking in at a girthy 176 minutes, a feat that even a critically-and-audience beloved enterprise like the Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t attempt until they had 30-something films under their belt or the kind of fan uprising that ceded final cut to Zack […]

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]]> ‘Punk the Capital’ thrashes to the beat of D.C.’s early punk scene https://vanyaland.com/2021/05/13/punk-the-capital-thrashes-to-the-beat-of-d-c-s-early-punk-scene/ Thu, 13 May 2021 14:27:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10026293 Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement could have gone in a lot of wayward directions. It could have been 90 minutes of unabashed Bad Brains and Minor Threat worship. It could have been a crotchety look in the rearview, lamenting how punk scenes just ain’t what they used to be. It even could have been a jaded “where are they now?” picking apart of what the who’s-who of D.C. punk are (or rather, aren’t) up to now. Instead, Punk […]

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