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‘Why do they do that?’: Nicolas Cage isn’t down with the Coppola-Scorsese Marvel bashing
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Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese believe, variously, that Marvel movies are either “despicable” or “not cinema”. Coppola’s nephew Nicolas Cage this week revealed that his only problem with the Disney-owned sup...
George RR Martin to team up with Marvel for new comic book series
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George RR Martin will team up with Marvel to produce a new series of comic books, [object Window]. The Game Of Thrones writer said working with the superhero franchise titan was a “privilege” and brought him “no...
Marvel denounces ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill after Disney apology
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Marvel Studios says it “strongly denounces” any legislation that affects the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, following the passing of a controversial bill in Florida. Republicans in Florida recently passed what oppone...
‘I read all 27,000 Marvel comics and had a great time. Here’s what I learnt’
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This should not be too hard, Ek dink, as long as I stay disciplined. All I have to do is read 27,000 comic books, then write about them. I had just signed a contract to write All of the Marvels, a book about reading...
Sarcastic superpower: why Bill Murray is the perfect Marvel villain
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Bill Murray’s confirmation that he is to play an unnamed villain in the upcoming Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania isn’t the first time a prestigious star has deigned to join the weird world of Marvel. Glenn Close tur...
Cabaret at 50: Bob Fosse’s show-stopping musical remains a dark marvel
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Cabaret opens with a Nazi getting kicked out of the Kit Kat Klub, a Berlin nightspot catering to the prurient whims of a well-heeled audience in 1931. It ends with the entire club populated by Nazis, as if it were und...
Morbius review – insipid Marvel misfire
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Jared Leto injects himself with bat serum and develops a swooshy Fields of the Nephilim cloak, a man bun and the ability to see sound; Matt Smith injects himself and morphs into a Wall Street rogue trader, made entire...
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage review – a theatrical marvel
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Nearly two decades ago, Nicholas Hytner triumphantly staged Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials at the National Theatre. He returns to that questing world with this version of the first volume in another trilo...
He’s back … yet again: why death in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is overrated
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Remember the infamous trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in which ghostly Luke muttered those not-so immortal words: “No one’s ever really gone”? It turned out to be a pretty big clue for the almighty disast...
Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe lost in space?
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With the news dominated by seemingly omniscient beings refusing to act against the greatest challenge facing planet Earth, what better time for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to introduce its cosmic counterparts? Indee...
Doctor Strange in die Multiverse of Madness-resensie – een vir geharde Marvel-aanhangers
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By definisie, multiverse is oral. Maar moet hulle regtig so alomteenwoordig wees? Die multiverse-konsep het 'n speelse, flipperspel van narratiewe merker in die Spider-Man-franchise, en ontketen 'n ...
The new Marvel megatrailer: just go limp and let it stomp all over you
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Bit of a rollercoaster, that Marvel trailer, wasn’t it? The misty eyed reminiscences. The clip of a packed cinema collectively losing its mind at Endgame. En toe, the climax – a punishing rabbit-punch of forthcoming...
Black Widow review – Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel assassin on deadly form
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Picking up where 2016’s Captain America: Civil War left off, Natasha Romanoff, AKA Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), is in exile in Norway when her annoying, estranged little sister Yelena (Florence Pugh) gets in touc...
The big picture: Marvel Harris captures a joyous moment during his gender transition
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When he was a child, Marvel Harris had always felt joyful in the rain, but in his teenage years he’d forgotten that feeling. In adolescence, bewonder, who is autistic, experienced depression and gender dysphoria which p...
Scarlett Johansson and a decade of gender politics in the Marvel universe
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In the history of Hollywood, there are far worse moments than the deeply cringeworthy one in Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark eyes up Black Widow and tells his aide: “I want one.” Anyone who has hit play on Pulp Fiction in ...
Marvel announces first gay Captain America
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A teenager who “stands for the oppressed, and the forgotten” is to become the first LGBTQ+ character to take on the mantle of Captain America. Marvel Comics is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the US hero with the ...