Super Birdie Rush

Supergirl mixes a great performance from Milly Alcock with too many half-hearted influences to fly by itself. While Kara's dynamic with her on-screen cousin Superman paints a bright future for the DCU, her solo outing never finds a super-entertaining rhythm.

Milly Alcock and Craig Gillespie, Supergirl's star and director respectively, discuss how the new DCU movie changes up the concept of superhero flight. Plus, we trace the earliest attempts to depict super-flight in movies and TV, and the heights that have been achieved in the modern DC movies.