Lashawna Lynch

Image: Marvel Studios2022’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was an odd movie in many respects, most of them regarding the way it treated Wanda Maximoff and her character post-WandaVision. A separate part of the film that rankled audiences as its second act digression to an alternate universe home to the Illuminati, which featured some surprise return cameos for Marvel alums like Patrick Stewart’s Professor X and Haley Atwell’s Peggy Carter. The latter was that world’s Captain Britain—a variant first introduced…

Screenshot: NetflixAstonishingly, you are looking at a picture of Dame Emma Thompson. I know, I can scarcely believe it either, but this is just part of the magic of Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of the award-winning, internationally successful musical of Mathilda, based on the beloved children’s tale by Roald Dahl about a little girl with telekinesis who gets forced into a horrifying boarding school run by the even more horrifying character played by Thompson.If you don’t know Mathilda the book—which was also turned…