SUPERHEROES AND SLEUTHS
LYNDA CARTER’S TV Wonder Woman never made it out of the 1970s, so the superhero’s latest it iteration is breaking new ground by entering the t off the decade pandemic of hair on bands a sour and note, shoulder leading pads hWo a muchin Wonder Woman 1984. Gal Gadot — who kicked maligned socially isolated celebrity singalong rendition of “Imagine” — returns as the hero in th this follow-up to 2017s hit Wonder Woman, which p promise explosive battles as she faces off against K Kristen Wiig, 47, as supervillain Cheetah.
GADOT G does double duty this autumn, co-starring as a well in Death on the Nile, based on the Agatha
Christie mystery starring 59-yearold Kenneth Branagh — who also directs the film — as famed detective Hercule Poirot.
AND TO LIGHTEN the mood, Robert De Niro, 77, stars in the family comedy The War With Grandpa, in which he plays a widower who moves into his grandson’s bedroom and triggers an intergenerational battle of pranks and one-upmanship. The film even contains a parody of the famous Godfather horse head in the bed scene. It’s a bit goofy but, grading it on a 2020 curve, we’ve seen worse. — Mike Crisolago