Robert Hutton on Cinema

Marvel-less

WHERE, MY FATHER ASKED while flicking through the Disney app on my television, were the films he might enjoy? And what was the Marvel Cinematic Universe? The two questions are related. If you’re not a man under 45, or you don’t have children in your house, the Marvel phenomenon might have passed you by. You’ve seen the posters, but you’re confident that anything with people running around in Spandex can be ignored. But Marvel is the monster that has eaten Hollywood, and the survivors of its arrival have had to rebuild their lives around it. Until a bit over a decade ago, there was no particular reason for anyone in Britain to know about Marvel Comics. The actual comic books were hard to get hold of here, and they only…

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