Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What if Superman started out evil? And what if that was the only idea you had for your movie? Hence “Brightburn,” a wafer-thin ...

So, let’s just say that you got off the Marvel hype train, and you don’t care one whit about James Gunn’s version of the DC Universe or the new Superman. That said, you still like superheroes and ...

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“Superman” meets “The Omen” in “Brightburn,” a watchable but super-silly mix of superheroics and evil-child horror that mashes together singularly uninspired ideas from both. Offering R-rated fantasy ...

Brightburn features Guardians of the Galaxy auteur James Gunn as a producer. Gunn's brother Brian and his cousin Mark wrote the script for the sci-fi horror film. Director David Yarovesky worked ...

The first 'Brightburn' trailer unveils the James Gunn horror film. By Aaron Couch James Gunn‘s mysterious Brightburn is coming into focus, and the first trailer reveals it’s a dark twist on one of the ...

Brightburn was announced in 2017 as an Untitled James Gunn Horror Project. The movie already debuted in America back in May and was recently released on June 19 here in the UK. The film was produced ...

What if Superman started out evil? And what if that was the only idea you had for your movie? Hence “Brightburn,” a wafer-thin exercise in a supposedly new genre called “superhero horror,” but what is ...

An adolescent boy discovers he has superpowers in 'Brightburn,' a James Gunn-produced horror movie variation on the superhero origin genre. By Frank Scheck A good-hearted, childless couple living in ...