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An Intervention: Superheroes, Snobbery and Liking What You Like

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Henry Bevan on superhero movies, snobbery, and liking what you like… When Marvel released the Captain Marvel trailer, the predictable happened. Most of the internet loved it (we at Flickering Myth were lukewarm)  and the rest of the internet questioned why people are excited about a new movie churned out by the blockbuster machine. The […]

Marvel’s Daredevil season 3 gets a New York Comic Con poster

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Artist Paolo Rivera has revealed his New York Comic Con exclusive poster for the third season of Netflix’s hit Marvel series Daredevil featuring Matt Murdoch and The Kingpin; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Daredevil season 3 promo puts the spotlight on The Kingpin SEE ALSO: The Kingpin returns in new trailer for Marvel’s Daredevil season 3 Season […]

The X-Men assemble in new Dark Phoenix image

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Following the arrival of the first trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix (and the news that Fox has now pushed the film back four months to the summer of 2019), Empire has unveiled a new image from the superhero sequel featuring Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) in their new X-uniforms […]

Preview of Typhoid Fever: Spider-Man #1

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Typhoid Mary returns to the Marvel universe this coming Wednesday and finds herself up against the wall-crawler in Typhoid Fever: Spider-Man #1; check out a preview of the issue here… Typhoid Mary is back in Manhattan and has set her sights on Hell’s Kitchen. With Daredevil preoccupied trying to take down Mayor Fisk, a power vacuum […]

Preview of The Superior Octopus #1

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Marvel releases the Spider-Geddon tie-in The Superior Octopus #1 this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… DOC OCK-TOBER STARTS HERE IN THIS SPIDER-GEDDON TIE IN! Doc Ock has set up shop as San Francisco’s protector, but you won’t believe his methods. Some of Otto Octavius’s new […]

Daredevil season 3 promo puts the spotlight on The Kingpin

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Netflix has released a new promo for the third season of its hit Marvel series Daredevil which put the spotlight on Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk and sees The Kingpin vowing to exact his revenge on the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen; watch it here… SEE ALSO: The Kingpin returns in new trailer for Marvel’s Daredevil season 3 […]

Fox delays X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Gambit, sets untitled Deadpool movie for this December

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Just a day after the arrival of the first trailer, 20th Century Fox has announced that it has decided to push back the release of X-Men: Dark Phoenix for a second time, with the film now slated to open on June 7th 2019. Dark Phoenix was originally supposed to arrive this November, but it was […]

Tom Hardy and Michelle Williams featured in new Venom clips

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With exactly a week to go until Venom arrives in cinemas, two new clips have arrived online for the Spider-Man spinoff movie, the first of which sees Eddie Brock/Venom (Tom Hardy) taking out a group of armed criminals that confront the reporter in his apartment, and the second featuring Anne Weying (Michelle Williams) and Eddie […]

Tom Hardy and Riz Ahmed featured in first Venom clip

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Sony Pictures has released the first clip from Venom which sees Eddie Brock’s (Tom Hardy) interview with Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed) at the Life Foundation take an uncomfortable turn after Brock questions the doctor about illegal pharmaceutical testing; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Venom featurette explores the motorcycle stunt sequence https://youtu.be/3ElAJSBLnwg One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, […]