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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Is Set at the Worst Possible Time The setting of the new  Wonder Woman sequel is so important that Warner Bros. and director Patty Jenkins made it the title of the film; it’s not  Wonder Woman 2, it’s  Wonder Woman 1984. That year allows Jenkins to focus her sequel on the consumer culture of the 1980s, and to place the title character in opposition to that era’s excesses. Diana’s battle against evil businessman Max Lord becomes a commentary on the selfish, wasteful forces in our own time. Choosing 1984 as a setting also allows Jenkins to mine ’80s pop...

Wonder Woman 1984 is  too much movie but that doesn’t necessarily mean its bad. At worst it is an ambitious mess that doesn’t quite justify its two and a half hour running time. WW84’s failure is sequel bloat and providing more entertaining stuff for the villains than the main character. It is kind of like watching Maxwell Lord: The Movie, guest starring Wonder Woman and sometimes Kristen Wiig/Cheetah. There is some fun superhero stuff in WW84, one just has to wait a long time to get to it. In the year 1984, Diana aka the super-powered Amazonian Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) is living in t...

Somehow streaming services, like HBO Max, have become the one thing they sought to replace: Cable packages. Pay-per-view movies evolved into bundled options, just like “Wonder Woman 1984.” As the

151 mins Not too long ago, DC had a few disappointments when bringing their superheroes to the big screen for its DC Extended Universe. Man Of Steel failed to reignite audiences’ love of the… er… the man of steel in 2013. Then it was more of a case of DCEU vs [a lack of] fans with Batman Vs Superman’s disappointing critical response in 2016, followed swiftly by Suicide Squad, which put the ‘bad’ in ‘a super group of bad guys get recruited to save the world’. However, that very same year came a bright red and golden light for DC when Wonder Woman was released. Directed by P...

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ is mostly run-of-the-mill but offers a handful of evocative moments Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures After several pandemic-related delays, the latest installment of the DC Extended Universe, “Wonder Woman 1984” (WW84), was released on HBO Max on Christmas Day. Patty Jenkins returns as director alongside Gal Gadot as Diana Prince. The film takes our titular heroine to the glamorous 1980s with some cheesy aesthetics along the way. The film follows Diana Prince, an employee at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. by day and Amazononian warrior by night. Al...