Review: ‘Captain Marvel’ is good, but not worth the ‘cultural battle’

Sam Stroud Staff Writer Ever since the “Captain Marvel” movie was announced and Marvel Studios began to indicate that this character would become the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there has been a of cultural battle between two opposing camps of Marvel fans.   The first group are people want this movie to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. The second group wants it to sink faster than the Titanic — the ship, not the film.  Some see “Captain Marvel” as a cultural landmark for women and female…

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M. Night Shyamalan film finalizes trilogy

Olivia Nobles Staff Writer M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass,” the third film in his “Unbreakable” series, which merges the story lines created in the first two movies, “Unbreakable” and “Split,” was released in theaters last week.  The series has spanned the course of 19 years in real time, as well as canonically, as the first installment, “Unbreakable,” was released in 2000. The real-world aging of the characters adds a certain depth to the film that would be difficult to manufacture. Bruce Willis plays David Dunn, the protagonist of the film, and…

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