Birds of Prey opens with Harley Quinn’s (Margot Robbie) break-up with the Joker. Freed from its connections to Suicide Squad (2016), the film is able to embark upon its own bold direction: a very loose adaptation of its comic book counterparts (a female crimefighting team founded by Barbara Gordon/Batgirl). Such emancipation is a vital theme […]
Suicide Squad is director, David Ayer’s ultraviolent, electric exploration into the darker side of the DC Universe, bringing some of its lesser known supervillains into a psychedelic alternative reality. Pre-empting new ‘meta-human’ security threats, Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembles a team of anarchic, malevolent supervillains to protect the nation, coerced into duty in exchange for […]