Tag: Morbius
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It’s Time for Dracula To Join the MCU
Since the original Iron Man, Marvel Studios has stuck strictly to superhero content, focusing on the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as they battle corporate criminals, alien invaders, secret societies, and otherworldly demons alike. Even now, this branch of the Disney conglomerate still deals largely in superhero media, be it feature films, television events, animated series, and…
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El Conde Review: The Boldest Vampire Movie Of The Year Needed Just A Little More Bite
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being reviewed here wouldn’t exist.Traditionally speaking, vampire stories have boasted a unique kind of versatility that most other subgenres can only dream about. In the last decade alone, they’ve run the gamut…
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Blue Beetle review – perky superhero caper offers more of the same
DC’s first live-action Latino superhero adventure is a milestone for representation and a solidly entertaining diversion but suffers from overplayed beatsFor a long while, there had seemed an endless appetite for superhero stories, crowds rushing to and cheering at exhaustively interconnected adventures of good v evil even as critics started to sour. But in the…
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‘Madame Web’: Sydney Sweeney Confirms the Marvel Character She’s Playing
Speculations are rife about Sony’s next superhero entry Madame Web. The feature is led by Dakota Johnson in the titular role in an ensemble cast featuring characters from the Spider-Man comics. As Sony expands its superhero catalog with characters like Tom Hardy’s Venom, and Jared Leto’s Morbius, expectations from Madame Web are high, with a…
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Barbie Parties Her Way To $95 Million Second Weekend At The Box Office
The “Barbie” success story just keeps going: the second-weekend estimations for the shiny pink Mattel movie are in, and it’s clear that Americans aren’t going to be ready to stop playing with their Barbies anytime soon. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Barbie” is set to add a stunning $95 million domestically in its second weekend,…
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There’s More to the ‘Batman & Robin’ Hate Than You Think
Every generation gets its own all-time bad comic book movie. Not too long ago, there were so few of these films that the most reviled entries would stick around as stand-ins for innately bad cinema for decades. 2023, however, has already delivered five different American superhero movies within the first six months of the year.…
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‘Kraven the Hunter’ Trailer: Aaron Taylor-Johnson Stars in Bloody Spider-Man Villain Origin Story
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is hunting big game in the first trailer for Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter.”The new film teases a villain origin story for Marvel character. In comic book storylines, Kraven is a killer predator that sets his sights on Spider-Man. He is also oftentimes portrayed as a member of the supervillain team the Sinister Six.The…
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Sony Does Marvel Better Than Marvel
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, similar to its predecessor, gives us a new high standard for what we can get from a superhero film. As the years have passed and the MCU has gotten more homogenous and formulaic, Sony’s approach to their own Marvel stories seems to have taken an opposite trajectory. Sony is willing to…
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‘Madame Web’: What to Expect
Sony’s Spider-Verse continues to grow, as the studio seems committed to fleshing out this branching cinematic universe, and the next on their list is Madame Webb. Apart from the McU-adjacent Tom Holland Spider-Man films, which gave the studio its biggest hit in the form of the culmination of No Way Home in 2021, the response…
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2022 Box Office Bombs That Deserved Better
2022 was a year of recovery for the box office. While the astounding success of Top Gun: Maverick and Avatar: The Way of Water proved that audiences would turn out for “event cinema,” many independent films and mid-budget titles underperformed as audiences turned to streaming. There was no such thing as a “sure thing” at…