In the third week of war, who is leading the country? And to what extent have those still in place been destabilised and weakened by the US and Israeli strikes on the country? A veil of mystery surrounds a man who remains out of sight: Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Another figure, Ali Larijani, meanwhile appeared centre stage at a pro-government demonstration. Source link
Eric Kripke is accustomed to the real world aligning with the version he writes, where men and women fly. So of course the first trailer for James Gunn’s “Superman” dropped on the day I spoke with the man behind “The Boys.” Why wouldn’t it? Gunn’s vision of America’s greatest comic book hero is wrapped in optimism. Homelander, played by Antony Starr, is the Man of Steel’s gaudy, cruel inverse, an all-American apple pie with radioactive razor blades baked into the filling. The regular guys standing against him — and for actual truth, justice and the ideal of the American way — are a grubby band held together by Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and Marvin Milk (Laz Alonso). “The Boys” began as a best-selling comic by “Preacher” co-creators Darick Robertson and Garth Ennis; Kripke’s adaptation uses the comic’s Übermensch to show us how omnipotent men would actually behave, inspired by Donald Trump and the far right’s oligarchic power structure propping him up. Homelander is also a product — an enhanced being created in a lab run by Vought International, …
