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.

The Super Mario Bros. movie is famously bad — so bad it killed the hopes of any good video game movie adaptations for YEARS. Or... so they say. But what if Super Mario Bros. wasn't actually that bad? Jenna digs into the history of the Super Mario Bros. movie and gets the answers about why it's so reviled. And why, just maybe, you should watch it for yourself.

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.