New "Superman" director James Gunn discussed how the film addresses politics, morality, and immigration while highlighting the character's belief in human kindness.

Gen Z is embracing the film's message of kindness, hope, and soft-hearted rebellion in a world drowning in cynicism.

Trust has collapsed in the institutions Superman used to defend. Mr Kent’s chosen profession, it must be admitted, is not what it was. (The 1978 film dates itself by opening with a paean to a “symbol of hope”—not Superman but the Daily Planet,

The Man of Steel became a political lightning rod this summer with the release of the new movie, but world's most wholesome hero has actually been under attack since 1954, when Dr. Fredric Wertham published the anti-comics treatise 'Seduction of the Innocent.

Superman has had a connection to immigrants from the beginning. The superhero’s creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, were both the children of Jewish immigrants to the United States, from Lithuania and Ukraine, respectively, according to an article published by the Library of Congress.

The director of the reboot, James Gunn, called the superhero from the planet Krypton “an immigrant,” thrusting the summer popcorn movie into an Earthbound culture war.

The movie has already been branded as “woke” by conservative critics over the director’s suggestion that Superman can be understood as an immigrant.

Director James Gunn talks about how the new "Superman" film is political and focuses on an "immigrant" who has "basic human kindness."

As a first look at one of the Superman SteelBooks has been revealed long before its home entertainment release, James Gunn has raised eyebrows with comments about Superman being a political

The director tells the Times of London "obviously there will be jerks out there" who are offended, but adds, "Screw them"