Like most based-on-a-true-story biographical films, Angela Robinson's Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is only loosely connected to actual events. Psychology professor William Moulton Marston (played by Luke Evans in the film) did create the comic book character Wonder Woman, and he did live in a polyamorous relationship with his wife Elizabeth Marston (Rebecca Hall) and their grad student Olive Byrne (Bella Heathcote). Everything else in the movie, though, is up for grabs.

Robinson frames her film around the explicit war against Marston's life and work. But in spite of complaints about the bondage in the Wonder Woman comics, Marston …

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There's no denying that writer-director Angela Robinson has excellent timing. Her new film, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, about the creation of the Wonder Woman comic book character, has been in the works for years. But it finally came to fruition the same year Warner Brothers' Wonder Woman climbed the box office charts and made a huge splash for the character. Interest in Wonder Woman and her strange, colorful, bondage-filled history is at an all-time high, and Robinson's seems poised to fill in the gap. The movie comes to theaters disguised as a lively, colorful origin story for a colorful character - a conventional biopic about …

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Wonder Woman is a feminist icon. She's also a sex symbol. She's a wish-fulfillment power fantasy and a sexual fantasy, which is part of why she's had such lasting appeal to fans all over the gender spectrum. But her sex appeal has been a consistent cause of consternation for critics, fans, and casual passersby since her earliest days as a comic-book character.

Director James Cameron is the latest commenter to claim there's a contradiction there, that feminism and sexiness are somehow at odds. In a furor-raising recent interview at the Guardian, he said that in Patty Jenkins' new Wonder Woman film, the character is "just an objectified icon, …

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With a filmography full of characters like Aliens' Ellen Ripley and The Terminator's Sarah Connor, James Cameron is often credited with making movies that feature strong female leads. When recently asked about the tremendous success of Wonder Woman, however, his response came off as rather dismissive.

In an interview with The Guardian, he said, amidst a long and confusing conversation about "strong, independent women" in film and his personal life, that he did not care for the film or its reception. "All of the self-congratulatory back-patting Hollywood's been doing over Wonder Woman has been so misguided," he said. "She's an objectified ic …

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Fans of Spanish actress Elena Anaya might have had a hard time recognizing her in Patty Jenkins' superhero sensation Wonder Woman. Anaya is a headliner in Spain, with starring roles in films including Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, the drama They Are All Dead, and the ghost story Fragile. She's become an international star as well, in the UK's Swung, France's high-profile criminal profile Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy #1, and Chile's The Memory of Water. To people around the world, she's a memorable face.

But in Wonder Woman, that face is largely covered by prosthetics and makeup, and Anaya's intensity only com …

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The numbers are in for Wonder Woman's first weekend, and they're even bigger than the projections.

With $100.5 million in North America and an additional $122.5 million internationally, Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman can boast the biggest-ever opening weekend for a film directed by a woman, Variety reports. With a budget of $150 million (which it has already more than recouped), Wonder Woman was already the most expensive film ever directed by a woman.

Wonder Woman unseats Sam Taylor-Johnson's Fifty Shades of Grey, which nabbed the record in February 2015, opening to a domestic take of $81.7 million. Before that, the record belonged to Cather …

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Along with Batman and Superman, Wonder Woman is a pillar of what's known among fans as the DC Trinity. At 75 years old, she's one of the oldest and most enduring of all superheroes, but where her counterparts have been featured in numerous TV shows and movies, Diana of Themyscira hasn't ever been as lucky. Up until this weekend's Wonder Woman, she's only appeared solo in one successful TV series, one failed TV movie, and one direct-to-video animated film. As a matter of fact, as Polygon's Susana Polo noted, the first major theatrical release Wonder Woman was even in was 2014's The Lego Movie.

It all goes to show how studios, thanks to a who …

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