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Preview of Trinity #16

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Trinity #16 hits comic book stores on Wednesday, and we have a preview of the issue for you here courtesy of DC Comics; check it out…“OLD ACQUAINTANCE”! It’s New Year’s Eve, and as the snow falls on New York City our Trinity reunites to save the life of someone completely unexpected—one of the DC Universe’s […]

Ranking 2017’s Superhero Movies From Worst to Best

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Liam Hoofe ranks this year’s superhero movies from worst to best…To describe a year as being ‘a marquee year’ for superhero movies feels redundant by this point. Every year fans are treated to at least five superhero movies and 2017 was no different. With DC, rather haphazardly, having entered the game in 2016, all eyes […]

Preview of Wonder Woman/Conan #4

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DC and Dark Horse Comics’ Wonder Woman/Conan crossover continues this coming Wednesday with the release of the fourth issue; check out a preview here…Our heroes have escaped the Corvidae, but if they want to save new friends from the witches’ wrath, they’ll have to work together. That would be a simple matter if their utmost […]

The Week in Spandex – X-Men and Fantastic Four come home to Marvel, Avengers 4 updates, Venom details, Justice League box office, DCEU slate confirmed and more

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In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men, Fantastic Four, Deadpool 2, The New Mutants, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, Gambit, The Gifted, Avengers 4, Black Panther, Thor: Ragnarok, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Venom, Jessica Jones, The Punisher, Runaways, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., New Warriors, Justice League, Aquaman, Shazan, Nightwing, Flashpoint, […]

The Worst Movie Action Scenes of 2017

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Harrison Abbott on the worst movie action scenes of 2017…In Absentia Luci, Tenebrae Vincunt – In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails.Likewise, in the absence of competence, asinine garbage will invariably triumph. Which means that for all the recent advancements in cinematic technique and film-making technology, you can always count on some hack to drop the […]

Cinema’s Damaged Heroine

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Sarah Myles on cinema’s damaged heroine…“Badass.”As a word, it has become synonymous with determined women in movies. Why? Because that is how critics routinely describe them.“Black Widow gets extra bad-ass in this Avengers 2 trailer,” said Rob Bricken of i09.In Atomic Blonde, Charlize Theron plays “a career badass who enjoys both the job and the […]

Thor: Ragnarok has surpassed Wonder Woman at the global box office

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Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok has now moved past DC’s Wonder Woman at the global box office.Much is said about the Marvel/DC rivalry, and while none of it really matters, it is certainly interesting to see how various superhero movies perform at the box office compared to one another.Thor: Ragnarok has been doing particularly well in markets […]

American Film Institute announces AFI Top Ten for 2017

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The American Film Institute has announced its list of the top ten U.S. movies of 2017:The Big Sick Call Me By Your Name Dunkirk The Florida Project Get Out Lady Bird The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Wonder WomanThe above films will all be hoping to pick up a nomination […]

Justice League performance leads to huge DC restructure at Warner Bros.

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Justice League might be edging towards $600m at the global box-office, but with Wonder Woman making much more than that on her own, the largely derided Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice nearing $900 million for its entire run, and Marvel’s equivalent superhero mashup, The Avengers topping out at $1.5 billion, there is no other way […]