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The game is over, triumphantly, but necessarily compromised by the scale of the undertaking

Joyce Glasser reviews Avengers: Endgame (April 26, 2019), Cert. 12A, 181 min. If you’ve never seen any of Avengers films before (there have been 21 or 22, including individual character films, as oppo ...

markbendle 533 views 0 likes May 2, 2019

How the West was won (more or less). The Coen brothers have six tales to tell

Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Netflix). Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s comic-tragic portmanteau contains six short Wild West stories whose common thread is mortality ...

markbendle 1136 views 1 likes Jan 17, 2019

An impressive, emotionally anaemic, over stuffed reward for Marvel fans

Joyce Glasser reviews Avengers: Infinity War (April 26, 2018) Cert. 12A, 149 min. Avengers: Infinity War, Anthony and Joe Russo’s (taking the franchise over from Joss Whedon) super expensive, super lo ...

markbendle 1018 views 0 likes Apr 27, 2018

A cultural revolution in a marvel comic brought to the screen

Joyce Glasser reviews Black Panther (February 16, 2018) Cert 12A, 134 min. When Disney bought Marvel Entertainment in 2009 for $4 billion it was seen by Wall Street as bargain investment and by comic ...

markbendle 1990 views 0 likes Feb 16, 2018