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Yes, that’s how “Joker: Folie à Deux” ends.

This story contains major spoilers for Joker: Folie à Deuxincluding discussion of the ending. Would you like to hear a joke? The end of Joker: Folie à Deux is probably what the audience will be talking about the most. Directed…

ICv2: Commander Rules Committee receives backlash from Magic: The Gathering fans

The Commander Rules Committee, the general governing body for the Commander/EDH format, faced heavy criticism on social media after announcing the ban of three fairly valuable cards from the format. The three valuable cards banned from Commander/EDH games were Jeweled…

Colin Farrell causes a sensation as Oz Cobb on HBO

“The Penguin” star Colin Farrell on the metamorphosis of his character Colin Farrell plays Oz Cobb in HBO’s The Penguin and talks about the character’s ambition, pain, power and possible Batman projects. This is not the Gotham you remember. Sure,…

Gotham gangster goodness with a delightful Colin Farrell

The Penguin Photo credit: HBO The first episode of The Penguin really sets the tone: This is not really a Batman show, it is a Gotham gangster series. This is The Sopranos with DC characters. Colin Farrell’s Oswald Cobblepot is…

HBO’s Batman spinoff isn’t fooling anyone.

It is impressive how little The Penguin makes a point of being a Batman show. In fact, one might wonder why it even cares. This is a show that clearly favors the Mafia canon over the comic book canon, a…

How “The Penguin” became the “Sopranos” of the Batman series

It has been 17 years since The Sopranos ended with the infamous cut to black. And while HBO has since offered several acclaimed crime series (such as Boardwalk Empire And True Detective), the company’s first attempt at feeling like a…

Release date, cast, where to watch the new Batman show?

DC Comics and Batman fans who have been eagerly awaiting the release of The Penguin series on HBO are in for a treat this week. Starring Colin Farrell as Oz Cobb, also known as “The Penguin,” the miniseries is a…

Colin Farrell is masterful in the Batman spinoff

No one has ever said the problem of a Batman movie is too much Batman, and yet artists have repeatedly tried to create Gotham City-related film and television projects without him, whether Gotham, Gotham Knight, Birds of Prey, Pennyworth, Batwomanor…

HBO series thrives despite Batman’s absence

Photo: Macall Polay / HBO Batman does not appear in The Penguinand if you accept the show as it is, you won’t miss him. Not when Cristin Milioti, as organized crime heiress Sofia Falcone, is doing her best O-Ren Ishii…

Tim Burton discusses whether he would ever make another superhero film after Batman returns – Comic book adaptations and news about superhero films

Tim Burton is currently not interested in making another superhero movie. Burton directed Batman with Michael Keaton in 1989 and the sequel Batman Returns in 1992. He was also slated to direct a Superman film with Nicolas Cage, but the…