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Can we franchise it?
Then a superhero baby could arrive from space to kill the supervillain baby!
It plays like a pitch.
Elizabeth Banks is Tori Breyer, the Mrs. Kent equivalent.
(What was Mrs. Kents first name again?
It escapes me.)
), who has a blank mask of a face until he starts disemboweling people.
Then he gives us a smug little smile.
I wish there were more toBrightburn.
(The title is the name of the town.)
), only to find him squatting over a mysteriously pulsating hurricane cellar.
(Cue the low bass in the front speakers and the fluttering chickens in the back ones.)
(Is he trying to frighten or court her?
He evidently makes no distinction.)
But most ofBrightburnbelabors the obvious.
Meredith Hagner plays Toris sister, whos also Brandons school guidance counselor.
So does his supervillain mask.
Maybe hell come up with something better in art class.
Earlier this year,Nicholas McCarthysThe Prodigyhad a lot more going on, but no one much saw it.
It needed the supervillain angle, I guess.
Or someone in the Gunn family.
