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Ben Child

London

Freelance Writer at The Guardian

Film Critic and Writer at Freelance

Film critic and blogger. The Guardian's Week in Geek column and now on Yahoo! https://t.co/HjWJWNpqrF

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  • 1 week ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

    Take all the essential ingredients of Star Wars – samurais in space, adventure among the wookiees, aliens with backward syntax, evil cyborgs with a penchant for murder by telekinesis – then imagine George Lucas hadn’t given us all of that through a PG prism. This, it appears, is what Ryan Reynolds did when pitching to Disney. “I said, ‘Why don’t we do an R-rated Star Wars property?’” Reynolds told The Box Office podcast. “‘It doesn’t have to be overt, A+ characters.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Child

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Ben Child

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

    Let’s face it, hanging around to watch post- or mid-credits sequences is a pretty weird thing. The movie is over, we’ve all had our fill – of CGI skybeams, multiversal migraines and superheroes punching each other in the feelings – and it’s time to head out into the night to debate whether the film was brilliant, baffling or just a $250m trailer for the next one. But leave we cannot, because something monumental might just happen after the credits roll. Or during them. Or, increasingly, not at all.

  • 3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Ben Child

    In the 1960s, Marvel comics made its name by dragging superheroes down to street level. Peter Parker worried about his homework. The Fantastic Four bickered like flatmates. Even the Hulk, a walking nuclear tantrum, was really just a green and muscular guy having a bad day. Over at DC, though, the heroes remained clean, polished and largely unbothered – moral titans gazing down from above, solving problems without ever really having any of their own.

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Ben Child
Ben Child @BenChildGeek
5 Dec 16

RT @KenLoachSixteen: For shame... https://t.co/R1VaEfg0rN

Ben Child
Ben Child @BenChildGeek
16 Sep 16

From mech-suit to Batnipples: the best and worst Batman suits of all time https://t.co/QHgRW6aWAm

Ben Child
Ben Child @BenChildGeek
15 Sep 16

A DeLorean only costs £22,000?!!! https://t.co/2VE1lMGcUJ