Every world gets the Spider-Man it deserves. And here on Earth-1610, our webslinger is one Miles Morales: a half-Black, half-Puerto Rican teen who loves graffiti, Air Jordans, and quantum physics. Like most Spider-Folk, he was bit by a radioactive arachnid, developed the ability to crawl up walls and sense oncoming …
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Surprise, surprise. Less than three days after Marvel Studios released the first teaser trailer for the upcoming film The Marvels, the film, and its star Brie Larson, are already facing backlash from the misogynistic side of Marvel fandom. In theaters Nov. 10, The Marvels sees its titular characters Captain Marvel …
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Many people have called Dame Helen Mirren a “goddess” throughout her life. Now the Oscar-winning actor gets to portray a literal one onscreen, and destroy an entire city block in the process. Shazam! Fury of the Gods, the sequel to the 2019 D.C. Comics superhero movie, finds Mirren playing Hespera, …
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As the loud but litheShazam!: Fury of the Godscommences, our hero is suffering from a bit of imposter syndrome. Lying on a couch, spilling his guts to a shrink (who turns out to be a mere pediatrician), the as-yet-unnamed superhero (Zachary Levi) explains that he’s just a kid, a dude …
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Let’s first address the obvious: My name is Marlow, and I am interviewing Liam Neeson for his new film Marlowe, the latest spin on Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. “Interesting that your name is Marlow!” exclaims Neeson at the start of our chat. I inform the veteran actor that …
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“I could fix things,” offers Ezra Miller’s The Flash. “You could also destroy… everything,” counters Ben Affleck’s Batman. These words in the new trailer for The Flash, Warner Bros.’ DC superhero epic hitting theaters June 16, hit different today. The trailer for Andy Muschietti’s (It) film debuted ahead of the …
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You’re never quite sure what Steven Soderbergh is going to do next. And that mercurial sensibility is part of his charm. The man who burst onto the scene at the age of 26 with his erotic thriller Sex, Lies, and Videotape has played in so many sandboxes, from crime comedies …
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Wondering about the charm that went A.W.O.L. in Dumbo? Looks like it found its way to Shazam! — that rare comic-book epic that actually deserves the exclamation point in its title for not making audiences feel bad about feeling good. Don’t look here for the artful cool of Christopher Nolan’s …
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