The long-awaited sequel to Marvel’s most oddball film has finally arrived, opening May 5 in the US, and it lives up to the promise of the first. Visually spectacular, action-packed, with a surprisingly resonant emotional core, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 fleshes out the eclectic crew and their relationships, brings in new characters, and provides a big chunk of Oedipal drama to think about on the way home.
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‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Creating Marvel’s Spacefaring Super Heroes’ is a brilliant recounting of the origins and adventures of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Learn more than you thought you wanted to know, and enjoy the ride with this chronicle from the brilliant pen of Marc Sumerak.
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I have fallen in love with this book as hard as I fell for the Guardians in 2014…
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Perlman burst onto the scene as cowriter of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy.’ She’s also cowriter on ‘Captain Marvel’; cowriting (with Alex Hirsch!) ‘Detective Pikachu,’ a Pokemon feature film; writer on the ‘Gamora’ ongoing comic from Marvel; and is attached to the upcoming “Hasbro Cinematic Universe” films. And that’s just what she can talk about.
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The Marvel Cosmos is big. Really big. Hugely, mind-boggling big…
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Following up on the success of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Disney XD has added the animated spin-off series to their schedule. A few months ago, I got the opportunity to meet the cast. I sat down with Vanessa Marshall and David Sobolov, the voice actors who portray Gamora and Drax on the series.
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Marvel’s 75 Years show on ABC this week left out a few things. Like, say, women and people of color.
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Can women in movies have at least as much personality as sentient trees?
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I wanted Guardians of the Galaxy to be great. But a few flaws keep it to the ‘just really good.’
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