‘Supergirl’ Sets Streaming Premiere Date

Mark your calendars DC fans: Supergirl is coming home.No, not to Krypton. Or even to the ruins of Argo City. She’s headed to HBO Max. The latest DC Comics movie will premiere there for streaming next week. (Do you think Argo City had streaming movies while it was floating through space for years? I hope so. Can you imagine decades without access to the Criterion Channel? Brutal!)Milly Alcock stars in the film, which is based on the recent DC comic book Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely. In both the movie and the comic, Kara Zor-El joins forces with an alien girl named Ruthye (Eve Ridley) seeking revenge for the murder of her family at the hands of a brutal killer, Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthas Schoenaerts).Warner Bros.Warner Bros.READ MORE: Every DC Comics Movie Ranked From Worst to BestSupergirl was one of my most anticipated movies of the summer, based in large part on my love of the source material. (Seriously — if you haven’t read Woman of Tomorrow, seek it out.) At least for me, the film did not live up to the book. As I wrote in my review here at ScreenCrush, it felt less like the novel than an attempt to reconfigure this character a...