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 ...

'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’ ...

Blue Beetle is the first Latin superhero to lead a feature film in the DC Universe, and the movie emphasizes the importance of the Reyes family's dynamic in the hero's story. Director Angel Manuel ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...