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The sound of Angel Olsen’s albums may swing from raw to symphonic and back, but there are always open wounds in her music that no amount of polished production can cauterise. The Missouri singer-songwriter has lost both her parents and come out as queer since we last heard her on 2020’s Whole New Mess, and her elegant response at this point on the pendulum swing is a luxuriant sprawl of orchestral folk rock. These songs prove the truth of Philip Larkin’s line “What will survive of us is love”, and it’s telling that the…

In a small record shop in London, on a humid Sunday afternoon, Angel Olsen sits on the counter, dressed in double denim, legs dangling, guitar across her lap, ready to play a handful of songs from her new album Big Time. “Do you guys do this often?” she says, to a crowd of about 30 people, most of them in a state of hushed awe. She smiles. “Cos I certainly don’t.”She is playing music in front of people for the first time in a very long time. In fact, it is her first time playing these songs in front of people at all. Big…

| Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber are creating an encore performance to their hit series Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen with a new one-shot comic in June: Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White #1. DC Comics announced the series in an appropriately gonzo press release: Perry White's long career in the papers deserves a big celebration, and who better to help than his favorite colleague? No, not Lois Lane. No, not Clark Kent…or that super-guy they all write about. It's Jimmy Olsen! Yes, the same Pulitzer Prize-winning…

Elizabeth Olsen has claimed she has never met one of her Doctor Strange 2 co-stars despite sharing the screen with him.The actor, who plays Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch in the Multiverse of Madness, participated in an interview where she undertook a lie detector test.At one stage, she is shown a photo of an actor who appears as one of the surprise cameos in the film – but left a contingent of Mavel fans confused after she adamantly said that they have never met in real life.*Spoilers follow – you have been warned*At one…

Elizabeth Olsen accidentally predicted her Doctor Strange 2 plotline in an interview seven years ago.The actor has reprised her role of Wanda Maximoff AKA Scarlet Witch in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, having first played the role in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron.However, eagle-eyed Marvel fans have noticed that, while promoting Age of Ultron, Olsen gave away her character’s future story.*Spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness below*After being forced to give up her two imaginary children…

Some actors do a tremendous amount of research for the roles they take on, going deep into the lore of the character so they can fully immerse themselves in the character they are about to embody. When it comes to the world of superheroes there is often so much history there it can be hard to retain all of it, actor Elizabeth Olsen gets put to the test as she attempts to answer trivia questions about her Marvel superhero character — Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch. To promote her most recent film, Doctor Strange in the…

Actress Elizabeth Olsen`s character Wanda Maximoff in the `Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness` is at her most complex, as her relationship with the title character essayed by English star Benedict Cumberbatch, grows more tangled over the course of the film. However, Olsen, whose portrayal of the mystical Scarlet Witch has made her a consistent MCU fan favourite, says that no matter what Wanda goes through, she`ll continue to defend the character, reports `Variety`. "I remember people saying at the end of…