Tag Archives: Marvel Comics

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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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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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

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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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