Shazam

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeZachary Levi has shared his dismay at the critical reaction to his DC superhero sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which came out in March.The movie, a follow-up to 2019’s Shazam!, stars Levi as a superhero in a battle of survival after vengeful gods arrive on Earth in search of the magic.While the first film was very warmly received, the second was such a critical and financial bomb…

Shazam, an Apple-owned app that can listen to songs and then identify them, has a big new update. And it's one that makes it much more likely to find the song you just can't quite place.That's because the new update, which can be downloaded for free from the App Store, includes support for listening to music in third-party apps. Those apps include TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.While Apple namechecked those specific apps in the Shazam update's release notes, it does also work in other third-party apps.Sounds…

Posted in: Comics, DC Comics, Preview | Tagged: Knight Terrors, shazamKnight Terrors: Shazam #1 drops this week, dragging us all into the nightmares of the World's Mightiest Mortal. Ready for the snooze-fest?Published Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:26:10 -0500 by Jude Terror | As if we weren't already bombarded with enough superheroes grappling their emotions like half-hearted therapy sesssions, DC Comics has decided to gift us another one. Allow me to formally introduce you to Knight Terrors: Shazam #1, launching into comic book…

Image: Gary L Hider (Shutterstock)Shazam is one of those genius apps that has stood the test of time and then some. Now, it’s getting a huge improvement on iOS. You can now use the music-identifying app on your phone while you have TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram open.Nobody’s Really Watching Reels9to5Mac first caught the update. Previously, if you wanted to Shazam a song on a platform like YouTube, you would have to open the video on a separate device and use Shazam on your phone in order to track down the catchy tune.…

(Photo by Franco Origlia/FilmMagic. Shazam: Fury of the Gods director David F. Sanberg has discovered something odd going on with the 4k iTunes digital version of his film.  Sandberg made a post on Twitter explaining that because he owns multiple versions of the film, he decided to compare the different formats to see which one is best. He viewed and captured footage from the 4k Blu-ray release, the standard Blu-ray release, the streaming version on Max, and the 4k iTunes digital version.  To his surprise, he…

Shazam 2 Star Zachary Levi Reveals Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman Cameo Suffered Due To Her Other Work Commitments(Photo Credit –Imdb) Zachary Levi starrer Shazam! Fury of the Gods aka Shazam has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, and one of the most controversial points around the film was Gal Gadot’s cameo in it. Gadot plays, or should we say, played the role of Wonder Woman in the DCEU. Weeks after the film’s release, the lead actor once again opened up about the controversy and shared how because of her…

via Warner Bros. The dust has settled on Shazam! Fury of the Gods now that the most recent chapter in the DCU has limped out of theaters and made its way onto digital and VOD, and the results aren’t pretty. Zachary Levi’s sophomore outing as the titular superhero couldn’t even reach $140 million at the global box office, and has gone down in the history books as one of the biggest bombs in the genre’s history. That would have sounded unfathomable had you told someone the sequel would flop so hard shortly after…

via Warner Bros New, never-before-seen footage from Shazam! Fury of the Gods has captured the moment that one of the film’s heroes loses her powers. First obtained by Comic Book Resources, the deleted scene was one of multiple to be included in the DC film’s home media release. The clip sees Grace Caroline Currey’s character of Mary Marvel involved in a sky-bound chase with Lucy Liu‘s Kalypso.  After boarding the dragon Ladon, Kalypso follows Marvel into the clouds, where she’s eventually struck by an invisible…

THIS WEEK: The DC Round-Up crew convenes for their monthly roundtable, with discussion of Shazam! #1, Peacemaker Tries Hard! #1, and Batman #135/900. Note: the review below contains spoilers. If you want a quick, spoiler-free buy/pass recommendation on the comic in question, check out the bottom of the discussion for our final verdicts. Shazam! #1 Writer: Mark WaidArtist: Dan MoraColorist: Alejandro SánchezLetterer: Troy PeteriCover Artist: Dan Mora Joe Grunenwald: Welcome, everyone, to this week’s DC Round-Up! We’ve…

I love the DC Comics superhero who is a little boy who shouts “Shazam!” and turns into an adult-size superhero in a red suit. Genuinely, he’s a great classic character who’s had some really sensible tweaks to transform him into a really smart modern found family superhero story for all ages. I hate that he doesn’t have a name. We used to call him Captain Marvel, and I accept that this is no longer an option (even though he had it first). But it’s simply not feasible that we call him Shazam. For one, he can’t have a…