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via Marvel Studios For the most part, the majority of new faces to have been introduced throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe‘s Phase Four so far have instantly achieved beloved status, which is of course entirely by design. Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop, Xochitl Gomez’s America Chavez, John Krasinski’s Reed Richards, Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock, Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk, Simu Liu’s Shang-Chi, Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie, Owen Wilson’s Mobius, and Oscar Isaac’s Moon Knight…

Image via Paramount Pictures. Warning: the article contains spoilers for Top Gun: Maverick. A surprise favorite character amongst moviegoers who experienced the G-force high tension of Top Gun: Maverick, fans may be shocked to know that Glen Powell’s Hangman wasn’t always written as he appears in the final version of the film. Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in a sequel more than 30 years after the original, one that’s surprisingly superior to the first outing, while still maintaining many of the…

Every critic knows that the public isn’t always going to agree with you.Often, this takes the form of a critical darling which proves too challenging or subversive for the mass market – films such as 2019’s science fiction drama Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt.However, other times, this works in reverse: the critical community dismisses a film’s merits, only for the general public to embrace it as a classic.As with all forms of art, there’s not necessarily a “right” or “wrong” answer with any one film. People are free to…

Having now gone zero-for-three in the space of 10 years when it comes to delivering reboots that were intended to launch brand new trilogies, the jury is out on whether or not the Terminator franchise deserves a place at the Hollywood top table. We’ll be getting another one eventually, though, but the least we can hope for is that it turns out better than Genisys. The worst-reviewed installment by far, the fifth entry in the cybernetic series was only saved from outright commercial disaster by a strong showing at…

In a trio of overgrown garden beds, tomatoes and chillies climb towards the sky. There are bite-size capsicums, both green and orange, plus bushy shrubs of parsley and rosemary. Somewhere in here, I am told, is pumpkin and sweet potato.“I had a bunch of kale, too, but it died when I was at Coachella,” Harley Streten says.We are at the northern rivers property where Streten – better known as music producer Flume – now spends most of his time, growing veggies and taking things slow. Further down the back yard he has citrus…

Based on the talent involved, there was reason to be hopeful that last year’s supernatural horror Separation would be able to stand out from the pack. Director William Brent Bell has a decent-if-spotty track record in the genre, while the stacked cast boasted Rupert Friend, Mamie Gummer, and Brian Cox among its number. In the end, it was maybe for the best that the would-be chiller was sent out to die a slow death at the pandemic-stricken box office, because it scored some of the worst reviews for any…

Nothing unites the internet more than hate, and today the harvest is coming in from moviegoers sharing their least-favorite movie tropes. Storytelling is both incredibly diverse, and shockingly narrow and insular. Before you can have subversion of expectations, you need to have the tropes and cliches in the first place. With this at stake, movie buffs are getting sick and tired of some tropes, and haven’t been afraid to vent them on social media. What is your LEAST FAVORITE movie trope?— Lebbertoxd (@InsaneLetterbox)…

Robert Pattinson turns 36 on Friday. He got his start in the movies, when he appeared in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, and became a household name when he starred in The Twilight Saga. (Read more: When Robert Pattinson talked about ‘mindlessly hating’ Twilight movies, how they took his dignityYears before he dazzled (literally) on screen as vampire Edward Cullen in Twilight, and even before he took on the lead role in The Batman, Robert was channeling his supernatural abilities as Cedric Diggory in Harry…