Sentences with phrase «whose superhero powers»

Opening Night on Friday, May 4 features the Midwest premiere of Fast Color, starring Gugu Mbatha - Raw (A Wrinkle in Time) as a woman whose superhero powers send her on the run; Mbatha - Raw and the film's co-writer and producer, Jordan Horowitz (La La Land), will be in Chicago for the occasion.

Not exact matches

Long the butt of every decent superhero joke, Zach Snyder strongly hinted that this Aquaman wasn't going to be anybody's punching bag when he cast famously frowny Jason Momoa to play a superhero whose chief super power is the ability to talk to fish.

Robert Jewett has long pointed out the American infatuation with superhero figures with mythic powers whose sole purpose is to rid the world of evil, though they never seem to succeed completely.

The movie's most sublime sequence has Deadpool putting together a superhero team of his own, a quick - cut job - interview montage that allows Zazie Beetz's Domino, Terry Crews» Bedlam, Bill Skarsgård's Zeitgeist, and Lewis Tan's Shatterstar to cycle through in short order, along with Rob Delaney's Peter — a nonsuperpowered fellow who just liked the sound of the want ad — and the Vanisher, whose invisibility powers prevent him from needing to be played by anyone at all.

Only one of this year's generally strong superhero movies boasts a memorable villain: Michael Keaton's Adrian Toomes, a.k.a. the Vulture, the disgruntled business owner turned weapons dealer whose compelling motivation and personality helps power Spider - Man: Homecoming.

It's a disappointing blow that only highlights how formulaic superhero films can be: the flawed guy trying to come good; the female love interest; the bad guy whose evil plan often involves an inversion of the good guy's powers; the CGI - figure - versus - CGI - figure finale.

It's a place Marvel fans have been waiting years to visit — and the film provides a starring role to the historic first black comic - book superhero, whose power to inspire transcends even his feats of physical strength.

«Populated by superheroes whose powers derive from those attributed to the seven gods of the Yoruba pantheon, and characters that debate intellectual history, philosophy, and politics in Black vernacular English, Rythm Mastr channels the diasporic and utopian drive of science fiction and Afrofuturism using the intertextual qualities of the graphic novel and the film storyboard.