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Ms Marvel Does Representation Right
I’ve been wary of western attempts to frame subcontinental characters, but Ms Marvel is a welcome attempt at getting representation right.
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Spider-Man Survived Thanos, But Got Caught in Hollywood’s Web
The panic to #SaveSpiderMan was sparked by a fallout between two Hollywood megastudios: Sony and Marvel. It was a reminder that we, the fans, don’t call the shots; that’s left to stuffed suits in polished boardrooms. They wield the power of life and death over our favourite characters and properties.
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Thor: Love and Thunder is A Big Smash With A Touch of Sensitivity
Taika Waititi’s Thor Love and Thunder delivers like his previous film. With lots of humour, tenderness and a deeply affecting love story at its heart.
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The Generic Superhero Movie Preview: Avengers Edition
This new cool superhero movie will blow your mind because it features all the famous actors in spandex unitards that you enjoyed watching in other superhero movies.
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Venom Review: We All Need a Terrible Superhero Film Every Once in a While
Venom will go on to join Suicide Squad as an anachronistically, indisputably bad superhero film in what is a golden age for the genre. Comic book fans were excited that Venom was returning to screens over a decade after his last appearance. It wasn’t worth the wait.
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: What Will it Take for Marvel to Fix its “Women Problem”?
Marvel’s first female headliner offers the studio the perfect playground to fix its infamous “woman problem”. So why does the film feel like Ant-Man and the Afterthought, rather than Ant-Man and the Wasp?
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Guardians of the Comic Book Legacy
The plot of Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2 is a testament to how superhero films work better when they are real films, instead of the usual campy OTT spectacle.