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Funnily enough before watching this I was listening to a cheerful podcast about how deepfakes can be used maliciously to provoke nuclear war...

There are risks to starting a story in medias res . The filmmakers do it in order to set up a very good twist midway through where the prota...

Spoilers. I don't usually care about spoilers, but for some reason I wanted to go in clean for this one, and I'm glad I did. I didn...

There is a striking parallel between Wakanda and Themyscira – faraway hidden utopias which flip the privileges of our world. In Black Panthe...

There's something interesting going on behind the jokes here. Director Taika Waititi casts himself as Korg, a failed revolutionary (he d...

‘Homecoming’ in several ways, one of which must be a knowing wink from Marvel Studios that they have finally brought the property back to wh...

A bit of my tiny contribution to the epic London Graphic Novel Network discussion on the book by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, which...

Marvel's gamble on the Russo brothers continues to pay off. Mainly known for cult TV comedies, they handle the massive budgets and expec...

Whedon acquits himself well handling what is an organisational nightmare of a film. With millions having seen at least some Marvel Studios ...

Before watching the film a colleague told me that there were certain gender problems with it, so I was on my guard. And true enough, at the ...

Quite a lot of the fashionable thinking around equality since the financial crisis has tried to shift the debate from the old opportunity / ...

Given the compromising position S.H.I.E.L.D. was in at the end of The Avengers , there was only one way this film could go - and it's a...

Shane Black definitely leaves his own imprint on the series. It's darker and scarer, but also quirkier: the quick-fire witticisms are pr...

Event comics need a theme big enough to be relevant for all the characters tied into it. Siege didn't really have that, which may have ...

I did the rant about 3D before , so won't waste words here. At least this film was more colourful than Harry Potter , so I could actuall...

I wrote another review for M+ , but I don't think it's going to be published, in which case it might as well go here as well. Again,...

Please tell me this is the end of it now. We know the line off by heart. Avengers Disassembled , House of M , Civil War , Secret Invasion -...