'Blue Beetle' is a solid film debut for DC's superhero, while Xolo Maridueña shines as Jaime Reyes and the movie highlights the importance of family and community. Making his DCU debut, ‘Blue Beetle’ ...

In the story, Carapax (Raoul Max Trujillo) works for the ruthless Victoria Kord (Susan Sarandon), who desperately seeks to retrieve the Scarab and its powers. The muscular villain locks horns with the ...

Franz Kafka never realized how close he came to kickstarting a superhero franchise. Ever since Gregor Samsa awoke in his bed to find himself transformed into a monstrous dung beetle in “The ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

You can call the DC superhero movies a lot of things, but “consistent” isn’t one of them. Even the intentionally interconnected films of the DC Extended Universe vary wildly and unpredictably in ...

While there has been a lot of turnover at DC over the last few years since James Gunn took over as the new creative head of the studio, one character who he assured had a place in the new universe was ...

“Blue Beetle,” now in theaters, is the latest movie that mines the rich DC Comics catalog to bring a new superhero to the forefront. In this case it’s Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña), who lives in the ...

When Joe and I reviewed “The Flash” earlier this summer, we didn’t know where “Blue Beetle” would fall in the planned reset of the DC Comics Extended Universe of films. Thankfully, DC’s first Latino ...

There's an easy narrative stemming from Blue Beetle topping the US box office with a softer-than-expected debut. Blue Beetle might eventually be objectively labelled a box-office flop if it doesn't ...

It looks like Peacemaker may not be the only hero to survive the collapse of the Snyderverse – or, interestingly enough, the only one to trace their comic book origin to Charlton Comics – as DC ...