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‘Multiverse’ runs wild and mad as my love-hate for MCU deepens
8/10 The history of the MCU and the Disney empire generally is a history of the struggle between directors and what has effectively become a second studio system. Massive names like Jon Favreau, Edgar Wright, Gareth Edwards, Phil Lord and … Continue reading
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Tagged "creative differences", 20th Century Fox, Auteur Theory, Benedict Cumberbatch, Danny Elfman, Disney, Doctor Strange, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Elizabeth Olsen, Evil Dead II, horror, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sam Raimi, Scott Derrickson, Sony, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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‘No Way Home,’ no way back
8/10 Spider-Man: No Way Home is everything you want from it. No expense has been spared, no stone is left unturned, no fan is left unserviced. If you have a question about this movie, the answer is “Yes!” This is … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, For the fans, Jon Watts, Raimi-Maguire Spider-Man, Sony, Sony Pictures' impending doom, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Ballad of Spider-Man in film, Tom Holland, Webb-Garfield Spider-Man
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Magical, musical ‘Encanto’ delights
8/10 In Encanto, off-brand Pixar does Colombian X-Men. This crazed Mad Lib is a real movie, and it’s pretty good. Colombia- As Alma Madrigal (María Cecilia Botero, with Olga Merediz stepping in for singing parts) flees an unspecified conflict in … Continue reading
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Tagged Disney, Encanto, Frozen, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Off-brand Pixar, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios
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‘Venom 2’ is obviously incomplete and breathtakingly bad
1/10 Venom was fun enough to be enjoyable though its flaws. That kind of good will doesn’t last. San Francisco- Freelance reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy, who also has a story credit) works with the FBI to find the lost … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Serkis, Disney, MCU, Sony, Tom Hardy, Venom, Venom: Let there be Carnage, woody harrelson
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Crouching Marvel, hidden action
3/10 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has a lot of good components, but they never really come together, and the put-together product is instead so forgettable you can sometimes forget you’re in the process of watching it. … Continue reading
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