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Madame Web and the Universe That Never Had a Spider-Man

Madame Web is a genuinely bad film. It is more interesting as the public death certificate of Sony's plan to build a Spider-Man universe without Spider-Man in it.

Marcus Vell·30 May·5 min

A dim backstage dressing room with two framed costume pieces on the wall

Film

Deadpool & Wolverine: The Last MCU Win

A year after Deadpool & Wolverine made $1.3 billion and saved a bad year for the MCU, the film looks less like a triumph and more like the last thing Marvel is going to get away with.

Marcus Vell·26 Aug·5 min

A rooftop at night above a New York cross street, rain on steel plating, a single figure silhouetted.

Daredevil: Born Again and the Ghost of the Netflix Show

Disney's Daredevil revival survived a mid-production creative overhaul and emerged looking, eventually, like a continuation of the Netflix show it nominally wasn't.

Marcus Vell·20 Jul·7 min

A stylised bat-shaped geometric form rendered in blue and gold

Industry

James Gunn Takes DC Studios

James Gunn and Peter Safran have been running DC Studios for eighteen months. The new slate is now announced, and the strategy is clearer than it was.

Casey Winters·28 Jun·4 min