James Gunn’s Superman reboot flies in with big hopes, bigger swings, and a literal flying dog—and somehow, it works. The Film Board tries to make sense of clone fights, emotional journalism, and whether Supergirl really just called Superman a bitch. (She did.)
The Film Board gathers for an in-depth panel discussion on a film just released in theaters and spoil it rotten!
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James Gunn’s Superman reboot flies in with big hopes, bigger swings, and a literal flying dog—and somehow, it works. The Film Board tries to make sense of clone fights, emotional journalism, and whether Supergirl really just called Superman a bitch. (She did.)
The Film Board dives into Jurassic World: Rebirth, a soft reboot that forgets why we ever cared about dinosaurs in the first place. From missing raptors to sarcastic ADR, we ask: is this a franchise reborn—or just another extinction event?
Exterior. A moderately obscure European airstrip. Day. The camera dollies past a series of neatly arranged suitcases, a broken harmonium, and a pigeon holding a classified microfilm in its beak. We hear the narrator: The Film Board Gathers. This week, a gang of thugs donned their finest pastels to unravel: The Phoenician Scheme.
Earth’s Most Reluctant Group Project has arrived. The Film Board assembles for a rare Marvel movie we all genuinely like—Thunderbolts—digging into found families, unresolved trauma, and why sometimes the real villain is the emotional baggage we drag behind.