Tag: Marvel
-
Roman Holiday
So I’m reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ At The Earth’s Core, a lost world adventure first published in 1914, and one of the urtexts for Marvel’s Ant-Man And The Wasp Quantumania superhero movie. It uses the phrase, Roman holiday, which I’d never encountered outside of Audrey Hepburn‘s the 1953 classic romcom movie, about a European Princess…
-
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
Along comes a Spider-man as you’ve never seen him before in this deliriously entertaining animated spin on your friendly neighbourhood superhero. Joyous, thrilling and inclusive, it’s a pulsating neon kaleidoscope of jokes, action and invention as several versions of Spider-man team up to save the fabric of the universe being torn apart by the infamous crime lord,…
-
CAPTAIN MARVEL
Strap yourselves into your cinema seat for a cosmic and colourful sci-fi action adventure ride, Disney delivers the 21st superhero smash from its Marvel Cinematic Universe. A member of the alien elite military unit, Starforce, the Captain Marvel is on a mission to locate a secret device on Earth, where she battles shapeshifting aliens while being pursued by US…
-
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: VOL 2
Brace yourself for cinematic hyper-speed as Marvel’s bickering band of galactic outlaws return in another loony tunes outer-space adventure. Once again the inadvertent heroes have to save the universe, this time from a celestial being who wants to recreate all life in his own image. The Guardian’s first adventure in 2014 was a £600 million box office supernova, and this…
Nemo's Fury 