This article contains spoilers for Black Widow. The Red Room’s “widows,” including Natasha, are usually depicted as seductive and lethal, killing machines in catsuits, but in that moment, they’re just girls, bound for a horrible fate that looks more like human trafficking than comic-book espionage. Pugh drags out the word “rip” as if she’s pulling dough, and when she talks …
After a two-year absence, the Marvel Cinematic Oppression – sorry, Universe – returns to the big screen with the long-awaited, long-delayed Black Widow, a semi-standalone instalment that sees Scarlett Johansson's Russian ex-spy cut adrift from her Avengers cohort following the events of Captain America: Civil War. Making her blockbuster debut, Australian director Cate Shortland establishes a personal feel in the …
In the year-plus that Black Widow has been sitting on the shelf—it was originally scheduled to kick off the summer movie season of 2020—so much has changed that it’s still hard to process it all. Do the activities of Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, during a previously undocumented hole in the Marvel timeline hold enough interest for viewers—who …
Black Widow Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz Director: Cate Shortland How fleeting world domination can be. Set in between 2016’s Captain America: Civil War and 2018’s Avenger: Infinity War”, it doesn’t have any grander, universal purpose to the franchise’s overarching aims than giving Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff/ Black Widow, a proper sendoff after a decade of …
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