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Ben Child

Ben Child

Film Critic / Blogger at The Guardian - Arts & Culture

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Recent Articles

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A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?

With multiple prequel shows already in production – and George RR Martin showing no signs of finishing his book series – what can a Thrones movie really add to the franchise?
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Alien: Romulus thrilled fans – how can its follow-up avoid the saga...

As Romulus shows, the series is best when it keeps to its slasher-in-space formula – anything more and the old beast starts creaking like a colony ship
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Batman who? Why The Penguin is TV’s biggest surprise of the year

Colin Farrell’s show-stopping turn, and a scene-stealing Cristin Milioti, make this DC crime series an unlikely winner
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Did Marvel really kill the movie star? Tell that to Harrison Ford

You won’t see Glen Powell wearing spandex and diving into the multiverse anytime soon. But it’s not done any harm to the careers of Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr or Chris Evans. And now Ford is about to follow suit
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No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out ...

With Amazon MGM and Barbara Broccoli in no hurry to rush their man back into service, by the time agent next hits the screen he might be unrecognisable to anyone over 25
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Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aq...

James Gunn’s made a good start as DC’s new big cheese, but will all musclebound lunks and second-rate sidekicks get their own feature film? Who’s next, Condiment King?
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Can Marvel’s Thunderbolts* avoid the mistakes of DC’s Suicide Squad?

Next year’s apparent climax to Marvel’s ‘Phase Five’ features an Avengers B-team with the little-remembered Bucky Barnes and Ghost among the sidekicks and also-rans
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Good boy of Steel! Is Krypto the Superdog really coming to Superman...

Rumour suggests the doggy hero will soon appear in James Gunn’s forthcoming movie. It could be a stroke of creative genius or an expensive canine catastrophe
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Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a s...

If Ian McKellen is right, a double feature Lord of the Rings movie based on a story gleaned from Tolkien’s appendices seems overly thin, even with an AI Orlando Bloom
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Can Travis Knight’s He-Man movie do for boys what Greta Gerwig’s Ba...

It’s hard to imagine Masters of the Universe ploughing quite the same meta-infused furrow but in the right hands, it might be ripe for forward-thinking, culturally adept satire
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Hugo Weaving says he spent too long on Middle-earth. But he’s not t...

Marlon Brando had to be lured from his trailer with food to play Superman’s dad and Alec Guinness asked for Obi-Wan Kenobi to be killed off to spare him from the ‘awful lines’