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Like thousands of French people, Sylvie Pinault discovered comic books during the pandemic. Though bandes dessinées – literally meaning “drawn strips” and often simply referred to as BD or bédé – are venerated in France as the “ninth art”, the 52-year-old had preconceptions about them being for children. That changed at the start of 2020, when her partner suggested they go to the gigantic comic-book festival in Angoulême. The following year, with the country locked down, the limpid cover of Léonie Bischoff’s graphic novel…

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom already has its home release dates, and they’re closer than you may think. While there’s no word yet on when it’ll debut on Max, the film will be available digitally next week on January 23, ahead of its DVD/Blu-ray/4K release on March 12. One would expect the Max date to be somewhere in that time frame too.Spoilers of the Week: July 29thDirected by James Wan, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom hit theaters less than a month ago and, so far, has grossed about $380 million worldwide, including about…

It may not have been a critical darling or a box office sensation, but 2006’s V for Vendetta has lodged itself firmly in popular culture. V’s Guy Fawkes mask has become an international symbol of protest and can be seen at demonstrations for any number of causes across the political spectrum. V for Vendetta is based on Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s comic of the same name, which was published between 1982 and 1989. By the standards of comic book adaptations of the day V for Vendetta is relatively faithful to the original…

Cast: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Park Seo-jun, Samuel L. Jackson, Lashana Lynch, Mohan Kapur, Zenobia Shroff, Saagar ShaikhDirector: Nia DaCostaRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 105 min. Nia DaCosta’s ‘The Marvels’ lends comic-book enchantment to the ever-expanding, increasingly unclear Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s a conventional take and follows the graphic-novel dictum of toonish action with splashy VFX. It may not have the sophisticated elemental splurge of previous…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeI’m fed up with the idiots,” Sean Connery once said, upon announcing he was quitting Hollywood. “The ever-widening gap between people who know how to make movies and the people who greenlight the movies.” This was in 2005, two years after the release of what would end up his final film: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a comic-book adaptation so cursed that the history-making…

The finest single panel of comics work ever produced – and I will fight you with a ready quip and feats of airborne acrobatics over this – appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man issue 42, released on 1 November 1966. And it doesn’t even feature the webbed wonder in costume.With a point of view for the reader from just over the right shoulder of Spider-Man’s nerdy alter ego Peter Parker, the panel – the final image in the issue – introduces our hero’s long-running love interest Mary Jane Watson, in a kinetic blur of yellow and…

Photo via Han Myung-Gu / WireImage Since writer/director James Gunn is making most of our comic-book films these days anyway, we might as well learn his top five favorites in the genre. It’s safe to say Gunn is an authority in the field, as he’s directed five comic-book movies so far, including Super, three Guardians of the Galaxy movies, and The Suicide Squad. He also created and directed several episodes of the Suicide Squad spinoff The Peacemaker. In addition, he produced the superhero horror flick…

Image: StarzThings are looking good for a second season of Willow over at Disney. A new Powerpuff Girls is truly on the way. Plus, Batman heads back to Gotham’s roaring ‘20s in a new animated movie. All this and Star Trek Picard, Clone High, and more.Spoilers, hope you survive the experience!Cult of DraculaBloody-Disgusting reports a film adaptation of Cult of Dracula, the 2021 comic book by Rich Davis is now in production at BR Films. The story is said to follow “a hippie cult dedicated to an ancient blood goddess”…