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WandaVision—the very first Marvel series to hit Disney+, all the way back in January 2021—is finally getting a snazzy home release. It’s nicely timed, now that series co-star Teyonah Parris is currently featuring in The Marvels, and WandaVision spin-off Agatha: Darkhold Diaries waits in the wings.The Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD comes with the complete nine-episode series, of course, as well as a ton of extras—all the better to entice fans who’re wondering why they need a home release of a show that’s still available on…

Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander, and Anna Kendrick are all set to join the new French sci-fi drama The Assessment. The cast and crew of Disney’s Haunted Mansion discuss the classic ride. Plus, John Hamm experiences the concept of Tea in a new Good Omens season 2 clip. Spoilers now!The Secret to Taika Waititi’s SuccessThe AssessmentScreen Daily reports Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Anna Kendrick are attached to star in The Assessment, a dystopian sci-fi drama from first-time French director, Fleur Fortuné. Said to…

Image: MarvelElizabeth Olsen, pretty famously, has done a lot of her own stunts in her Marvel Cinematic Universe career. Most recently she did most of her own stunts in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, where she was a main antagonist. That doesn’t mean she’s ready to be a full-time daredevil, however.Spoilers of the Week Feb.11thWhile she doesn’t mind doing stunts now and then, Olsen told Stephen Colbert in an interview on The Late Show that it might have been “a waste of everyone’s time because a stunt double…

Image: Marvel StudiosMarvel’s D23 presentation yesterday gave us our first look at what appears to be the full team headlining 2024's Thunderbolts film. Though it sports previous MCU antagonists like Ghost from Ant-Man & the Wasp and Black Widow’s Taskmaster, it’s not exactly what you’d call “villainous”: from Falcon & Winter Soldier’s US Agent to Yelena Belova and Bucky Barnes, most of the roster are people who’ve been manipulated by the government of their country, and Ghost only turned to villainy to not die.…

WandaVision — Marvel's first (mini)series on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — is a weird delight. It features Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) doing the dishes and Vision (Paul Bettany) belting out his dulcet tones at a dinner party. Two of Marvel's most powerful superheroes, who've been busy saving the world over and over, have suddenly been relegated to homebody stuff. In that sense, it's very much like our collective experiences over the past year, as we've found ourselves stuck at home. The initial episodes — I've seen…

WandaVision episode 1 is out now, ending our 18-month wait for new MCU content, but this isn't the Marvel that we remember from Avengers: Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home. The entire episode is modelled after a Hollywood Golden Age sitcom, from the 1950s, replete in black-and-white, a near-square aspect ratio, and a live studio audience, actually. It's got those silly jokes that you associate with old-timey sitcoms too, delivered with the kind of pauses and background sounds you would expect from a theatrical…

WandaVision episode 2 is available on the same day as WandaVision episode 1, and it's only after you watch it that you realise why Disney and Marvel Studios decided to premiere the MCU series with two episodes upfront. While WandaVision episode 1 avoided giving us any clues as to what was really going on — how is Vision (Paul Bettany) back, and why are they inside a black-and-white classic sitcom? — WandaVision episode 2 starts to offer us clues to what's really happening. To be fair, it is still very little to go on, but…

WandaVision episode 3 — out January 22 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — centres around a rapidly-progressing, life-changing event: a pregnancy. The words rapidly-progressing and pregnancy aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in this strange sitcom-y world of Marvel's new TV series, everything goes. Wanda's (Elizabeth Olsen) baby bump, introduced towards the end of WandaVision episode 2, is not only deemed to be “really happening” but then springs more surprises. She gives birth to twins! Marvel comics fans…

WandaVision episode 4 — out January 29 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — finally takes us behind the curtain. After spending three episodes inside the American classic sitcom world (set in the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s), Marvel has decided we've had enough — and that some answers are needed. The show's title characters — Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) — are barely present in the new episode, as MCU's first Disney+ series completely changes perspective to retell the story from the point of view of the…

WandaVision episode 5 — out February 5 on Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar — just possibly laid the groundwork for the X-Men's entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At the very end of the new episode, Quicksilver (Evan Peters) arrives at the Vision residence to greet his very surprised sister Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). Now this is weird on multiple counts. For one, Wanda's brother Pietro Maximoff / Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) died in Avengers: Age of Ultron. So if you expected another character to be…