Supergirl: 40 Years On

Four decades later, this Helen Slater-starring superhero spin-off remains one of my guilty pleasure films

Credit: Warner Brothers

If they are honest, every cineaste will admit to guilty pleasures; films that objectively aren’t very good, but that they nonetheless enjoy a great deal. Supergirl (1984) is one of my guilty pleasures. I will make very little attempt to defend it from an artistic standpoint. After all, it is little more than Alexander and Ilya Sal…