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Superman Goes Woke

Superman Goes Woke

In today’s Hollywood, loving America is a character flaw

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Jul 07, 2025
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The upcoming Superman reboot isn’t a superhero movie so much as a political message wrapped in spandex.

How else should we regard it?

Director James Gunn has told Variety Magazine that the franchise’s latest instalment would be a story about … immigration.

One imagines the only thing faster than a speeding bullet will be audiences sprinting away from the box office.

What’s that sound you hear?

It’s the mass exodus of moviegoers racing off to re-watch Top Gun: Maverick for the fifteenth time. Just to remember what joy felt like.

Superman, who used to soar above Metropolis to fight evil, is now apparently an undocumented alien struggling to …

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