DC on SCREEN | DC Studios News & Reviews

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #322 - In this DCEU News episode, Dave and Jason discuss:

Lego Batman Wins Presidents Day Weekend |

Zack Snyder Loves Lego Batman |

Chris McKay Talks Villains They Didn’t Use |

Chris McKay Wants to Do Lego Justice league |

Siri Thinks You’re Batman |

Jay Olivia Talks Storyboarding the DCEU |

James Cameron Lists Zack Snyder As an Inspiration |

Empire Magazine Wonder Woman Issue |

Wonder Woman Test Screening Results |

Ares Actor Is Being Reported |

New Wonder Woman Trailer Coming Soon |

Wonder Woman’s (Dr. Pepper) Cans |

Justice League Trailer Coming Soon |

BTS Pic of Batman in ‘Justice League’ |

Fabian Wagner Talks Justice League Cinematography |

New Batmobile Toy Pics Show Us New Justice League Model |

New Statues Offer Best Justice League Look Yet |

Aquaman Filming Date Released |

Aquaman Gets Forrest Gump Cinematographer |

Jason Momoa Talks Aquaman Script |

James Wan Says No Aqualad |

Aquaman Training Videos |

Matt Reeves No Longer in Talks to Direct The Batman |

The Rock Explains Why Black Adam is a Hero |

Shazam Gets a Director? |

Common Wants to Play John Stewart |

Mel Gibson and the Suicide Squad 2 Directors Shortlist |

Michael Wilkinson Designs for BvS |

New Concept Art for BvS Released |

Batman v Superman Alternate Outfit Design |

Batman Begins Gets Honest Trailer |

J. Jonah jameson in Man of BvS |

Critical Thinking: What You Like vs. What Is ‘Good’

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #321 -  Arrow 5x13 - Spectre of the Gun | Recap & Review

This week we take a look at Rene to see what created the Wild Dog we’ve come to know. There’s also a lot of talk about gun laws. But here’s what actually happened. In the present, Oliver is faced with a gun rights dilemma as a madman infiltrates city hall, killing several people and injuring many others. It comes to bear that his rage is over a gun registry bill that didn’t get passed, and the fact that his family was needlessly gunned down shortly after the bill died. In the wake of the city hall incident, Mayor Queen has to spend his time tracking down this domestic terrorist while also talking with opposition City Council members about how to draft a bill that will satisfy both sides of this debate. Team Arrow does track down the terrorist, but it’s Mayor Queen who talks him down and submits him to custody. With the help of Rene, who has been appointed Assistant Deputy Mayor to Lance, Oliver works up a bill that apparently protects everyone’s rights & opinions. In the flashbacks we learn that Rene once had a wife and a young daughter, but the wife was a recovering addict who got in a little deep. After returning with his daughter from a hockey game, Rene finds his wife held at gunpoint over a few hundred dollars of IOU drug money. Rene tries to get to the box with his gun in it, and does, but the dying drug dealer kills his wife with an incidental blow. Having been dishonorably discharged, Rene isn’t allowed a firearm and in the aftermath of the event his child is taken from him. He pleads with Child Protective Services, but to no avail. In the present, having learned of the situation, Curtis swears to help him get his daughter back. Meanwhile, Felicity is still using her illegally acquired database and Diggle talks Dinah into getting a real apartment and putting some roots down.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #320 - Supergirl 2x12 - Luthors | Recap & Review

This week was a glimpse into the past of Lena Luthor.  First off, it turns out she was an illegitimate spawn of Lionel’s who was brought into the family without the full support of Lillian.  Secondly, she’s apparently embarrassingly better at chess than the vaunted Lex Luthor, who it turns out was friends with Superman for years before the two became arch nemeses.  But this story is about the escape of Metallo and the teamwork between him, Cyborg Superman, and Lillian that ensues.  When Metallo escapes, Lena is left to blame and is summarily arrested.  Kara, however, is certain her friend wouldn’t do this.  It does eventually turn out that the damning footage of Lena was faked by Cyborg Super-Hank, which exonerates Lena.  Ultimately, a battle ensues between Supergirl and the CADMUS trio but the results are deadly for Metallo, whose use of synthetic Kryptonite are inevitably self-destructive.  Cyber-Hank and Lillian scuttle away and the Manhunter shows up in time to give Supergirl enough time to save Lena, but Metallo is supposedly a goner.  All the while, James and Kara have been talking and the relationship between Guardian and Supergirl may have a future, because they’ve talked about mutual trust now and game night is back on.  Also, Alex comes out to the gang, who are all happy for her but with varying degrees of not surprised.  And Kara finally faces her feelings for Mon el.  The two even kiss, almost, until a 5th dimensional imp shows up and steals the scene, declaring his love for Kara.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #219 - In This DCTV News Episode, we discuss:

Court of Owls and Bruce |

Riddle Costume Reveal |

Lucifer is Getting Sued |

Tom Ellis On Lucifer Return |

Lucifer Renewed for Season 3 |

First Look at Music Meister |

New Supergirl Musical Costume |

Teri Hatcher Heading to Supergirl |

La La Land Writers Work On Supergirl |

Kevin Sorbo Heading to Supergirl |

Sterling Gates and Mr. Mxyzptlk |

Lena Luthor and Kara |

Zach Stentz leaving the Flash |

Superfriends Coming to Flash/Supergirl Musical |

Caitlin Has Secrets |

Captain Cold Will Definitely Return |

JSA Returning to Legends |

Legends Has Snart On Set |

Arrow Villains Returning |

Return of Artemis Teaser |

Laurel Is Hard To Kill |

Diggle and Prometheus Will Throw Down |

Black Lightning Moving to CW |

Powerless Wants Crossovers |

Alan Tudyk on Coming to Powerless |

Powerless Ratings |

Aqualad talks Young Justice Cancellation and Return |

Injustice 2 Black Canary Footage |

Swamp Thing Coming To Injustice 2 |

WB Games Teaser |

Teen Titans Judas Contract Trailer |

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #318 - In this DCEU News Episode, we discuss:

Happy Birthday to Listener/Friend Christopher White |

Happy 1-Year Anniversary to Nerdtalkalypse! |

Check Out Our Friend Eli on His New Show Stealing the Remote! |

Aria Moffly Promoted to Vice President of Creative Affairs at DC Entertainment |

Arnold Schwarzenegger Coming to Wonder Woman? |

New Justice League Pic Released |

Wonder Woman Promises a New Justice League Trailer Soon |

Laurence Fishburne Says He’s Not in Justice League |

Atlantis Described |

In-Development Preview Released of Justice League Batman Suit |

Justice League Was Always Meant to Be Brighter |

Total Film Confirms Cyborg is a Mother Box |

Snyder Talks Justice League Team Dynamic |

Kiersey Clemons Confirms Justice League Appearance |

Temuera Morrison in Talks to Play Tom Curry |

Nicole Kidman in Talks to Play Aquaman’s Mother |

Black Manta Cast? |

Amber Heard Training Video |

Jason Momoa Also Obviously Training |

Ben Affleck Wants Out as Batman? |

Matt Reeves To Direct The Batman? |

Ridley Scott to Direct The Batman? |

Casey Affleck Says No To Robin |

Chris Terrio Rewrite? |

Joe Manganiello Not Playing Deathstroke? |

Joe Talks Training for Deathstroke |

Joe Manganiello Talks His Take on Deathstroke |

Haley Bennett As Catwoman? |

Lena Headey As Catwoman? |

Zack Snyder Release VFX Reel |

LEGO Redesigns for DCTV |

LEGO Batman Takes Jab At Suicide Squad |

LEGO Batman Numbers |

Will Arnett Pranks a UK Toy Store as Batman |

GIVEAWAY # 4 UPDATE!

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #317  - Arrow 5x12 - Bratva | Recap & Review

Team Arrow heads to Russia to find General Walker and a big ol nuclear bomb. Oliver hopes Anitoli will help him find Walker, but Anitoli is pretty pissed about a previous commitment that Oliver dropped. A raid provides them a hostage, but Diggle gets impatient and knocks him right the hell out. Felicity takes matters into her own hands, and blackmails someone using the giant Pandora cache of info she was gifted. Rory is suspicious, and is worried about Felicity’s new direction in life. None of this works though, so Oliver is forced to barter with Anitoli and do some enforcing on behalf of the Bratva in exchange for Walker’s location. The trade off works, and they do capture Walker, but it appears Oliver may be more in debt to his old friend than he had hoped. Despite Felicity’s best hacking, the big ol nuclear bomb goes off, and Rory wraps it in his rags to contain the blast. His desperate tactic works, but at the expense of the magic contained in the rags, so he tells Felicity in private that he’s leaving and will return when he can be more use to the team. Back in Star City, Rene is left to help Quentin prepare for his interview with Susan. And also to make sure his ass stays sober. After some blustering, Quentin accepts Rene’s help. The interview goes more smoothly than it should because, it turns out, a young Lance once told a young Rene that he wasn’t living up to his potential. Susan meets a contact who gives her a photo of the old school Green Arrow that was taken in Russia. She can only conclude that the Bratva Captain Oliver Queen that she knows and the Green Arrow from the picture are one in the same.  In the flashbacks, Talia’s training of Oliver continues as they knock off a name from Oliver’s father’s list, and Talia pushes Oliver to continue his journey and take the fight back home.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #316 - Legends of Tomorrow 2x11 - Turncoat | Recap & Review

The Legends head to Christmas 1776 to save George Washington, who will be murdered by Evil Rip, and also has already been murdered by Evil Rip, but not quite because cementing time and whatnot.  Anyway, they have to save George. The Legends arrive at a Christmas party, and get ambushed by Evil Rip and his EMP grenade. The result is a kidnapped Mick and Georgie, a Ray that’s stuck in his tiny dead suit, and a Sara left for dead with a shot in the gut. They get Sara back to the ship, but Stein can only do so much to keep her going. As the ship is assaulted by Evil Rip’s forces, Jax is forced to do his best to defend the ship with sticks and stones. Evil Rip and his army rip down the door, chases down Sara and Jax, and Jax is forced to hand over a piece of the Spear of Destiny in a futile attempt to save Sara’s life. Luckily, Ray outruns a rat, and gets power restored in time to get Gideon online and save Sara’s life. Later, Jax seeks revenge on Evil Rip, but just can’t pull the trigger after a healthy-ish Sara talks him down. Elsewhere, Nate and Vixen’s search for Mick and Washington take a turn for the unexpected, and they make with the nasty. But they’re just chilling, so it doesn’t mean anything, much to Nate’s chagrin. All the while, the fate of George friggin Washington seems to be in the hands of Mick Rory, who is amused by George’s insistence that the British will treat their captives with the honor they deserve. After George is sentenced to death he decides to listen to Mick and they make their daring escape, aided by Nate and Vixen, who have finished adult hugging. After saying goodbye to George, who proclaims Mick a national treasure, they all make their way back to the ship for some Christmas dinner, presents and Captain Sara pep talks about recovering the Spear.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #315 - The Flash 3x12 - Untouchable | Recap & Review

Barry is trying to train Wally for his encounter with Savitar, but Flashpoint villain Clive Yorkin shows up and starts disintegrating some familiar faces.  His quest for revenge involves killing Joe, but having failed at killing him directly, he realizes killing Iris would be at least as good.  Wally shows up to save her, but can’t get it done.  Iris gets the touch of death,  and is fading fast.  Caitlin is forced to go Killer Frost to freeze Iris’ arm to stem the damage. She almost loses her battle with Frost though until Julian talks her off the ledge.  Yorkin, still at large, goes after Joe directly, forcing Barry to expand his skillset and phase an entire train full of people through a roadblock.  Wally, who has been having trouble learning to phase, gets the inspiration he needs to use his speedster blood to reverse Yorkin’s powers as he phases through him.  Meanwhile, the families of Joe and Cecile have successfully met, and that went over okay, especially for Wally, who has found a super fan in Cecile’s Daughter.  Also, the tension between Caitlin and Julian has developed into fondness as Caitlin finally invites Julian to grab a drink, and Iris is feeling slightly better about the Flash being able to save her at the end of the day.  Finally though, we get a breach over from Jesse Quick, who informs Wally that Harry has been kidnapped by none other than Gorilla Grodd.

SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #314 - Supergirl 2x11 - The Martian Chronicles | Recap & Review

Kara still isn’t okay with Winn, James, or Mon El, and this week she adds Alex to the list of grudges because Alex asks if she can skip Kara’s Earth birthday to spend time with Maggie.  But there are bigger problems to deal with since the White Martians have arrived.  M’Gann’s ex has arrived, and wants to take her back to Mars for trial and execution,but Hank won’t have it.  He convinces her to retreat to the DEO headquarters with him so he can protect her, but hubbie has arrived and taken the form of one of the crew.  It turns out that Winn is the Martian counterfeit.  But wait for it.  There are 2 Martians and Alex is the other one!  After the team recovers the real Winn and Alex, they try to disarm the Martian backup plan, which is to just blow the whole damn building up.  Supergirl, Hank, and M’Gann lay into the White Martians while a very groggy Winn disarms the bomb.  After all this, M’Gann decides to head back to Mars to seek out other dissenters like herself, because she can’t be the only decent Martian left on the planet.  Hank reluctantly says goodbye.  And after a week of thinking about it and a pep talk from  Alex, Kara decides to talk to Mon El about how they feel, but she finds him on the way to lunch with someone else and backs out.

SPOILER-FREE/SPOILER-FILLED/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #313 - The Lego Batman Movie | Review

Everything is awesome in this bat-tastic follow-up to "The Lego Movie" ... well, almost everything.  There may be some small hiccups for us, but all in all, this is an azmazingly funny, heart-felt adventure that mostly lives up to the awesomeness of the Lego Movie!  We'll get into the wonderful cast, the one-liners, and OMGosh the 78 years worth of Batman references!  Keep in mind, there is a spoiler-free review up front, and then a spoiler-filled segment.