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Film review | Iron Man 3 – Third time’s a charm as Downey Jr’s Tony Stark turns up the superhero snark
Robert Downey Jr is back for his third solo outing as billionaire inventor Tony Stark, aka metal-suit wearing superhero Iron Man, and he’s in splendidly sardonic, wisecracking form. Joss Whedon gave Downey plenty of knockout zingers in last summer’s Avengers … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldrich Killian, Avengers Assemble, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Jon Favreau, Joss Whedon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Marvel Comics, Maya Hansen, Osama bin Laden, Pepper Potts, Rebecca Hall, Robert Downey Jr, Shane Black, The Mandarin, Tony Stark
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Film review | The Amazing Spider-Man – Andrew Garfield slips into Spidey’s suit but the action lacks zip
Squeezing into the skin-tight Spider-Man bodysuit vacated by Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield does an excellent job as the geeky teenager who turns into a web-slinging superhero in The Amazing Spider-Man, but the action that surrounds him in the latest screen … Continue reading
Film review | Avengers Assemble – Joss Whedon adds Heh Heh Heh to Wham Blam Splat!
Geeky fanboys will be in heaven. After their recent solo outings, Marvel comic-book heroes Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor and Captain America finally get to do cool things as a team in Avengers Assemble. Pulled together by Samuel L Jackson’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Avengers Assemble, Black Widow, Captain America, Chris Hemsworth, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Jeremy Renner, Loki, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Nick Fury, Robert Downey Jr, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, The Avengers (Marvel), The Hulk, Thor, Tom Hiddleston, Tony Stark
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DVD review | X-Men: First Class – Born in the heat of the Cold War: How the Marvel mutants became X-Men
X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s up there in the top rank of superhero films. With Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn at the helm, the sci-fi action series goes back to the beginning for an … Continue reading
Film review | Captain America: The First Avenger – Marvel’s red-white-and-blue hero socks it to the Nazis
A special serum turns a 90lb weakling into a brawny hunk in this pumped-up action movie featuring Marvel Comics’s red-white-and-blue superhero Captain America. Chris Evans’s Steve Rogers is a plucky but puny youngster from Brooklyn who’s desperate to enlist in … Continue reading
Film review | X-Men: First Class – Matthew Vaughn gets the Marvel Comics mutants back on track
The sci-fi action series featuring the Marvel Comics mutants took a dip with its last two outings, 2006’s sprawling X-Men: Last Stand and 2009’s scrappy Wolverine spin-off, but X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Xavier, Cuban Missile Crisis, Daniel Craig, Emma Frost, Erik Lensherr, Frankenstein, James Bond, James McAvoy, Jane Goldman, january jones, Jennifer Lawwrence, Kevin Bacon, Magneto, Marvel Comics, Matthew Vaughn, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Professor X, Sean Connery, wolverine, X-Men, X-Men: First Class
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Thor – Kenneth Branagh turns from Shakespeare to Marvel for a hero with real clout
Forget Hamlet and Henry V, Kenneth Branagh puts Shakespeare behind him and gives us a hero with real clout – Marvel Comics‘ hammer-heaving Norse deity Thor. Taking the role of the brawny thunder god is former Home and Away hunk … Continue reading
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Tagged Asgard, Athony Hopkins, Chris Hemsworth, Frost Giants, Hamlet, Hawkeye, Henry V, Home and Away, Iron Man, Jeremy Renner, Kat Dennings, Kenneth Branagh, King Lear, Loki, Marvel Comics, Mjolnir, Natalie Portman, Norse mythology, Odin, Rene Russo, Star Trek, stellan skarsgard, The Avengers (Marvel), Thor, Tom Hiddleston
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Competition Winners
Our competition to win a Blu-ray disc of X-Men Origins: Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman as Marvel mutant superhero Wolverine is now closed. Thanks to Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment for supplying the prizes. And well done to all our … Continue reading
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Tagged Blu-ray competition, Hugh Jackman, Len Wein, Marvel Comics, wolverine, X-Men, x-men origins: wolverine
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Director Gavin Hood makes a blockbuster action movie with a social conscience
Gavin Hood has made the leap to the Hollywood big league with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but he hasn’t left his social conscience behind. It’s his first time at the helm of a major studio blockbuster, but he doesn’t just want … Continue reading
Win X-Men Origins: Wolverine on Blu-ray
Hugh Jackman is back, razor-sharp claws at the ready, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, reprising the role that turned the former song-and-dance man into a Hollywood action star – Marvel mutant superhero Wolverine. And to mark the film’s release on Blu-ray … Continue reading




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