This Part Of Superman Ended Up Being Pointless (& Was Done Better On TV)
James Gunn’s Superman includes the renown Kingdom Come version of the Man of Steel’s S-shield, but it doesn’t do much with it.
Brad Curran is an entertainment journalist and martial arts coach from Savannah, Georgia, with over a decade of experience writing about action cinema, superhero movies, horror, and martial arts. His firsthand background in martial arts coaching gives his reviews and analysis a depth of technical understanding that goes well beyond the typical film critic.
Brad has been a contributing writer for Kung Fu Kingdom since 2013, the world's leading martial arts film website, where he has covered movies, TV, training, and conducted on-the-record interviews with Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Tony Jaa, Jackie Chan, Joe Taslim, Shannon Lee, Bren Foster, and many others. He joined Screen Rant as a Features Writer and Interviewer in 2019, one of the most widely read entertainment news sites in the world, where his interview portfolio expanded to include Frank Grillo, Gerard Butler, Dante Basco, Janet Varney, Annette O'Toole, and Dolph Lundgren. His work has also appeared on ComicBook.com, CBR, The Action Elite, and Cascade PBS.
Brad is tracked on Muck Rack with over 2,100 published articles, syndicated across MSN, Flipboard, and additional outlets. His editorial specialisms are action and martial arts cinema — particularly Hong Kong action, Indonesian action film, and the John Wick-adjacent world of modern stunt-driven cinema — alongside DC and Marvel superhero coverage and horror. He is also a lifelong devotee of Raul Julia's M. Bison, which he considers the most quotable movie villain of all time, bar none.
Expertise: Martial arts cinema · Action films · DC & Marvel · Horror · Film interviews
Also published at: Screen Rant · Kung Fu Kingdom · ComicBook.com · CBR · The Action Elite
Muck Rack: muckrack.com/brad-curran
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