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 ...

DC Studio's new Blue Beetle is a fun addition to their line-up and their best film of the year, but is that enough?

'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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 hits all of the familiar notes of the superhero genre and is a solid origin story for a new young hero. However, it doesn't bring anything particularly new to the genre either, aside from ...

One of the most surprising high points of the DCEU came from the last flickering embers during its dying days, the release of director Ángel Manuel Soto and Xolo Maridueña's Blue Beetle in 2023, the ...