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Film Review: The Wolverine

The Wolverine (Japan)

The Wolverine’s second solo adventure tips its hat to the comics, and focuses on character for mature action epic. He’s the best there is at what he does, which is probably why Wolverine remains one of Marvel’s most popular characters almost forty years after his introduction in the pages of The Incredible Hulk. One of …

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Film Review: Man of Steel

Man of Steel - Amy Adams, Henry Cavill, Antje Traue

Warner relaunches its DC Cinematic Universe with its most famous of characters, but is it still Superman? As the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to prove that superhero box office is alive and well, Warner has struggled to advance its own properties to the big screen. Despite the successes of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, and …

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Film Review: Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 - Sitting on a couch/sofa

Marvel’s Cinematic Universe kicks off Phase 2 in style as Tony Stark has his biggest adventure to date. “Things haven’t been the same since New York,” confesses Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr) to a stressed Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). He is of course talking about his intergalactic battle alongside friends in the Big Apple, but …

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