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by Matthew Turner Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for Marvel Avengers Assemble (or The Avengers, if you live anywhere other than Britain) and is intended to be read after you’ve seen the film. With the recent release (and what already looks like phenomenal box office success) of Marvel’s The Avengers, it seems only fitting to [...]

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by Matthew Turner Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for Captain America: The First Avenger and is intended to be read after you’ve seen the film. Having written comics-to-screen pieces for this blog on both Thor and X-Men: First Class, it seemed only fair to give Captain America the same treatment. I talked at length in [...]

by Matthew Turner Warning: This post contains SPOILERS for X-Men: First Class and is intended to be read after you’ve seen the film. A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for this blog about the juggling act faced by film-makers when making superhero movies, namely, playing to their built-in audience on the one hand (by referencing [...]

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by Matthew Turner What do people want from Marvel superhero movies? (Sorry, DC fans –there’s only room in this blog post for one superhero universe). Looking beyond the obvious answers (super-powered fight scenes, spell-binding visual effects, compelling characters and entertaining stories) the makers of a superhero movie about a lesser-known character like Thor (or a pre [...]

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