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Starting in August 2017, Keith R.A. DeCandido took a weekly look at every live-action movie based on a superhero comic in the weekly 4-Color to 35-Millimeter: The Great Superhero Movie Rewatch. He caught up to real time, as it were, in January 2020, but is revisiting the feature every six months or so to look back at the new releases in the previous half-year. Last week, we looked at
The New Mutants.
There was no comic book more popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s than
Uncanny X-Men. After the third-rate super-team was rebooted in 1975 by the late great Len Wein and the late great Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont took over the writing chores and, working with Cockrum and later John Byrne, turned it into Marvel’s powerhouse, the X-Men eclipsing Spider-Man as Marvel’s flagship.
One of the year’s most anticipated films,
James Bond: No Time To Die, has been delayed again and now won’t be released until April 2021.
Despite film releases being delayed and cinemas struggling, an opening appeared for streaming sites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ to step into the gap.
Here’s our pick of the best films released in 2020.
I’m Your Woman
In this “atmospheric” underworld drama, set in the early 1970s, Rachel Brosnahan (best known for TV’s
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) plays Jean – the pampered wife of a mobster (Bill Heck), said Kevin Maher in The Times. In the opening scene, he hands her a crying baby, saying he has “sourced” it elsewhere. He then disappears, and Jean is told that for her own safety, she must go on the run with his former associate Cal (Arinzé Kene) – a quietly competent African American – for protection. In her old life, everything from cooking to killing was done for Jean; now she must live by her wits, wh