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Finally a Marvel film that doesn’t entirely bore the pants off Deborah Ross

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

9 March 2019

9:00 AM

Captain Marvel is the 654th film in the Marvel franchise — the figure is something like that, I think — and as the first one to be female-led it was mercilessly trolled before its release by the fan boys. ‘This movie is gonna bomb like no other and they only have themselves to blame,’ was one typical remark.

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