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Marvel Studios Much has been said and complained and joked about today’s official press release on the start of production of Captain America: Civil War.…
When I was a sophomore in college, I found myself in a beer-blurry debate about whether or not Hamlet could be black. Here was a…
Touchstone Pictures Update: According to Latino Review, Martin Freeman will play an interrogator with some connection to Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and…
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Marvel Studios There’s really no reason to review Avengers: Age of Ultron. You’re going to see it. It’s going to make $2b at the box…
In that early line-up of weirdos, the hulking figure on the far right is Lord Tantalus, a little-used, highly mysterious character that was in the…
Marvel Studios If you’re bummed that Joss Whedon isn’t directing more Avengers movies after Age of Ultron, don’t worry about the fact that there isn’t…