Ep886: SUPERMAN (1978) - Round Table Review
You'll believe a podcast can fly! Join Earth's Mightiest Critics live for a soaring celebration of Richard Donner's landmark superhero adventure, Superman: The Movie!
Christopher Reeve stars Kal-El, the sole survivor of the doomed planet Krypton. He lands on Earth, where he discovers unique powers that allow him to become a hero to the helpless and a defender of justice. He runs afoul of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman), and the rest is cinema history!
In this retro round table, the EMC look back on the movie that started it all. This discussion considers Superman as a movie, as a special effects breakthrough, and as a pop cultural phenomenon that comic-book-movie creators are, in many ways, still chasing today.
Superman: The Movie was recently released by WB Home Entertainment as part of a 4K UHD Blu-ray box set of the 1978-1987 films.
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