Film & TV Series Reviews: Wonder Woman; The Hero; House of Cards

This week, it’s all about heroes and a few anti-heroes.Hollister weighs in on House of Cards Season 5, fake documentaries, and Shakespeare’s treatment of gender. Paradise Island? Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins (The Killing), breaks all kinds of records. Starring Gal Gadot, Robin Wright, Chris Pine (as Steve Trevor, not Lois Lane), Connie Nielsen, and Lucy Davis.Lie detector tests and bondage? O’Toole explores what she learned about the creator of Wonder Woman from The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore.Click here for Amy Cuddy’s TED Talk on the real-life benefits of Wonder Woman’s “power pose.”In honor of Lynda Carter and the original Wonder Woman series, this week’s #ListOfSix features the six best TV-to-big-screen adaptations. Live long and prosper: how Leonard Nimoy came up with the Vulcan salute.O’Toole reviews The Hero, starring Sam Elliott (Grace and Frankie), Laura Prepon (Orange Is the New Black), Nick Offerman (A Walk in the Woods), and Katharine Ross. Written, directed, and edited by Brett Haley, and shot in just 18 days.This week’s #BlastFromThePastFilm: Sam Elliott in Lifeguard.