Marvel is on the ropes. Will Tom Holland’s latest outing be its saviour – or will the film get tangled in its own web of cliches?This year has been an experimental one for Marvel. After no big releases in 2020, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has b…
Why on earth is Angelina Jolie in Marvel’s Eternals?
No one is more suited to playing a godlike otherworldly creature. Yet no one, surely, needs this kind of movie less. Unless…There is something going on with Eternals, Oscar winner Chloé Zhao’s debut dip into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Perhaps it’s …
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings review – a superhero movie that justifies the hype
Marvel’s latest blockbuster is an electrifying fusion of convincing characters and breathtaking CGIAlthough it often feels as though barely a month passes without another comic book movie puffed as a new pinnacle of achievement for the superhero genre,…
The Suicide Squad review – eyeball-blitzing supervillain reboot
Guardians of the Galaxy’s James Gunn is a good directorial fit for the humour and freaky violence of DC’s bad-guy jamboree DC’s new Suicide Squad movie announces itself as different from the coolly received first film from 2016 simply by adding “The” t…