‘The Suicide Squad’ first reviews: “Balls to the wall bonkers”

Just as things were seemingly returning to normal – albeit slowly for some – it would seem that we may be going back to studios possibly shifting release dates for their more prominent properties. Or maybe “Clifford the Big Red Dog” is simply an outlier.

A great comic book movie requires a lot of elements to fall into place. You need a great special effects team, at least one compelling hero or antihero to rally behind for two hours, and a snappy script peppered with engaging action.

Killer fashion! The supervillain stars of Suicide Squad proved they can clean up nicely, showing up in style to the red carpet premiere on Monday, August 2. 

Taika Waititi and Rita Ora just reached a major milestone in their relationship! The couple made their red carpet debut on Monday night when they stepped out for the premiere of in Los Angeles, California.Ora, 30, stunned at the event, wearing a white, backless Azzi & Osta mini dress, while her 45-year-old beau, who stars in the film as Ratcatcher, wore a gray suit and white button-up shirt.The pair was all smiles with their arms linked on the carpet.

John Cena knows how to steal the spotlight.

John Cena knows how to steal the spotlight.

James Gunn knows how to keep a good thing going. After breaking out with, the writer-director-fanboy auteur was brought up from the indies for Marvel's and its sequel,.

The Suicide Squad inspired the forthcoming Peacemaker TV series.The actor plays the character of Peacemaker in the new DC Extended Universe movie and will reprise that role in a series for HBO Max.Speaking to NME, Cena said: “In pushing the boundaries of Peacemaker, I started to lean into a lot of the nuances that I enjoy. None of it made the movie – not one bit – and everyone on the cast was very patient during that exploration.

The Suicide Squad‘s James Gunn has opened up about how he uses music in his films.The filmmaker, whose Marvel film Guardians Of The Galaxy featured a soundtrack of iconic 1970s hits, spoke to NME on the matter of music.“I write all of the songs into the screenplay, and then those songs we play on set as we do the scenes,” the filmmaker revealed.“So when you see them walk through the rain to Pixies‘ ‘Hey’, we have Pixies’ ‘Hey’ blasting on set.”He continued: “Not only do I have the songs that I

took to Twitter to defend his original idea for the film just one week before the release of James Gunn’s upcoming retooling, aptly titled “The Suicide Squad,” which has already received significant praise from critics. Many have compared Gunn’s version to Ayer’s disappointing effort, which Ayer claims is not fully his work.“I don’t know what quit is.

The Suicide Squad star Idris Elba has laid out the differences between the film and its 2016 predecessor.Speaking to NME on the day of the film’s release (July 30), Elba said that the differences ultimately come down to James Gunn and David Ayer’s contrasting approaches to the franchise.“I think fans will appreciate that these are two great filmmakers who attacked it differently,” he said.He added that he felt fans would “take some comfort in the fact that James Gunn is an absolute almanac for

Suicide Squad, has said that the Warner Bros. version released in cinemas is “not my movie.”In a lengthy, personal post on Twitter, the filmmaker claimed that the studio behind Suicide Squad “ripped to pieces” the film that he had originally made.“I put my life into Suicide Squad,” he wrote in the post.

It has been a tumultuous day in the superhero and sci-fi space: We’ve seen a Black Widow lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson, a Doctor Who shake-up and the UK premiere last night of Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad, all of which we talk about on this week’s podcast. We also have producer Peter Safran on how he worked with James Gunn to bring his zany Dirty Dozen-inspired vision for The Suicide Squad to life.

Following a tweet by film journalist Tim Grierson about loving James Gunn‘s “The Suicide Squad” and suggesting that director “David Ayer should just abandon the idea of [his] director’s cut,” Ayer, the director of 2016’s “Suicide Squad” — the film Grierson is specifically addressing — Ayer posted a lengthy rebuttal on Twitter once again disavowing the theatrical cut of that film, because it wasn’t his cut.

told Fox News, echoing his previous message of dismissing cancel culture.The Marvel film director was famously fired from Disney back in July 2018 before being rehired to continue directing the blockbuster franchise.In the Fox interview, Gunn shared that the sequel to the 2016 David Ayer-directed “The Suicide Squad” brings together the “worst of the worst” anti-heroes in the DC Comics Universe and reverses the script on their negative perceptions.“I think these are all people that feel like they

The Suicide Squad has currently received more positive reviews than any other DC or Marvel film that has come before it.The film has 63 reviews recorded on Rotten Tomatoes as of today (July 29), and has received a 98 per cent overall rating as a result.As reported by Forbes, this is 4% above The Dark Knight, which until now sat at the top of the DC scoreboard.

James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” from David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad.” But, oh, what a difference a word makes.Just five years after the trainwreck that prompted Warner Bros. to retool its DC Comics universe, James Gunn’s nearly wholesale re-do exists in an entirely different movie galaxy.

is a superhero movie cranked to 10, with explosions and the storming of beaches, shootouts in the jungle, a giant mind-controlling starfish and… a wedding? That's the hope of Juan Diego Botto's character, at least, as the actor reveals in this exclusive look behind the scenes at DC's new Task Force X team-up. The bride-to-be? None other than Harley Quinn.«He lives in a country where everything is very old-fashioned, and people want a president that's married.

For DCEU fans, there's no actress who could have played Harley Quinn better than Margot Robbie. The actress has essayed the role of the DC supervillain in three films including Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, and the upcoming The Suicide Squad.