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Buzz Feed
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
These 15 Tweets Make Living In The Marvel Universe Seem Insane
This post has not been vetted or endorsed by BuzzFeed's editorial staff. BuzzFeed Community is a place where anyone can create a post or quiz. Try making your own! Community · Living in the world of Earth's mightiest heroes can lead to the goofiest situations. This is for the Canada Junior Writer. This tweet appeared on my timeline last week, encouraging others to tweet as if they are in the Marvel Universe. Here are the most unserious retweets: 1. Starting off, dating in the Marvel Universe is tricky because looks can be deceiving: 2. The Human Torch can set relationships on fire as well: 3. On the bright side, in a world where Daredevil and She-Hulk are lawyers, clients being attracted to them is part of their job: 4. The average person can't have a day of peace with petty supervillains around every corner: 5. Just ask this guy as well. Ultron: robotic supervillain and internet menace: 6. Thoughts on these supervillains can make any family gathering super awkward: 7. If a politician also seems off, they might just be a shapeshifting alien from outer space: 8. At least Hulk smashing means taking time off: 9. Even with the perks of working in the Marvel Universe, nothing is worse than your employer being Doctor Doom: 10. When it comes to secret identities, having your mind blown happens far more often than you think: 11. For context, mutie is a slur for mutants in the Marvel Universe: 12. A variant of the infamous Jeremy Renner app might exist in this reality: 13. Speaking of Hawkeye, he might not be the best Avenger to send out when the city is in danger: 14. Using mostly firearms doesn't stand out when your teammate is a literal Norse god: 15. Lastly, maybe things really were better off when Wanda took over Westview in WandaVision:
SBS Australia
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- SBS Australia
Why Jameela Jamil thinks we have Stockholm syndrome — for the patriarchy
Jameela Jamil's bold advocacy has won her legions of fans — and critics — all over the world. Source: Getty / Jacopo Raule This article contains references to eating disorders. Jameela Jamil is the first to admit she's not perfect. In fact, it's something the English actor, writer, podcaster, and advocate actively embraces. "Women have this pressure that is put upon us — and then we put upon ourselves — that we have to be perfect from the start," she says ahead of her "very fun, very unfiltered" Australian speaking tour. Best known for her roles in The Good Place and Marvel's She-Hulk, Jamil has garnered a loyal following for her direct, passionate, and often humorous commentary on everything from body image, mental health, and gender equality to , disability, and LGBTIQ+ rights. Her anti-perfectionist stance has made her something of a poster girl for it. "I think the reason I've made it quite far in my life for someone who came from nothing and didn't know anyone, had no connections, is because I have the audacity of a man," says Jamil. I have the audacity to know that it's not my responsibility to be perfect when I just start trying something for the first time. "I don't know if I'm going to be good at it, but I throw myself in and I am proud of myself for that." It's an attitude that the 39-year-old credits with giving her a life that's a far cry from the "dignified" one she envisioned when she was younger. A chance encounter with a producer in a London pub in 2008 led Jamil, who was working as an English teacher, to land a job as a TV presenter. She later moved into radio presenting, becoming the first female solo host of BBC Radio 1's Official Chart show, before upping sticks to Los Angeles to pursue screenwriting. It was there, after securing her first-ever acting role in 2016 as British socialite Tahani Al-Jamil in the hit TV series The Good Place, that she found global fame. But as her profile increased, so did her impulse to speak out. "I don't know how to not say anything," she says. "It doesn't feel like there's a choice whether or not you can say something when you see injustice." Jamil's growing frustration with women's value being measured by a number on the scale led the self-described "feminist-in-progress" to found the I Weigh movement in 2018. "If you want something to change, if you complain about a problem, then surely it would only make sense, logically, to try and do something about it?" she says of her advocacy efforts. Beginning as a social media campaign encouraging people to publicly celebrate their achievements and contributions to society rather than focus on their size or appearance, I Weigh later evolved into a "community allyship platform". It was relaunched last year as Move For Your Mind. While Jamil's unashamed outspokenness and advocacy have been praised by many and led to plaudits such as being named one of Time magazine's 25 most influential people in 2019, she cringes at being put on a pedestal or viewed as "some type of guru or master". It's not a call to arms … I'm more trying to start big, public conversations about [these issues] so we can stop just being lulled into submission all of the time. "It's normal to care. It's not normal to not care." Naturally, there have been questions about whether a statuesque, conventionally attractive cisgender woman (Jamil's name literally means "beautiful" in Arabic) in Hollywood is qualified to speak about issues like diet culture and fatphobia, particularly when much of the associated harm is perpetuated by celebrities and influencers. Jamil acknowledges she is more privileged than most. At the same time, she has experienced firsthand the long-term harm that comes with trying to meet unrealistic and ever-changing beauty standards, as well as how brutally women, particularly those in the public eye, can be treated for simply existing. Early in her career, Jamil was subject to tabloid scrutiny in the UK, which criticised her for being too thin and then later mocked her for gaining weight as a result of medication she was taking. At the same time, she was battling an eating disorder that had developed in her teens, something Jamil says has caused lasting damage to her bone density, digestive system, kidneys, liver, and heart. She says part of the pull to conform to beauty standards stems from an underlying desire to belong. "There's this feeling of 'I'll be left behind if I don't obey the group and do the thing that will allow me to be included,' because it's real that if you are skinnier or you look younger or you have pretty privilege, you're more likely to be included." As well as speaking publicly about the racism, classism and appearance-based abuse she experienced growing up — including being "very violently" bullied for being South Asian — Jamil has been vocal about the impact of multiple chronic health conditions she's experienced throughout her life, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, mercury poisoning and coeliac disease. Her propensity to be an "open book" about her life has sometimes come back to bite her. In 2020, a string of Instagram posts went viral, alleging Jamil had fabricated details about her injuries and illnesses. The author of the posts even went so far as to suggest Jamil had Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder in which a person fakes or exaggerates illness to gain attention and sympathy. Jamil publicly refuted the claims, as did her long-term partner, musician James Blake, saying they highlighted how people with chronic health conditions and invisible disabilities are often disbelieved. While Jamil has endured her fair share of trolling and abuse online, not all of the criticism levelled at her has been unjustified. One such example is her past "slut-shaming" of other female celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Beyonce, and Rihanna. Jamil says she regrets some of the things she's said and how she's said them and takes accountability for that. "But you can regret something and still be glad that you did it because that's how I learned what to do differently next time," she says of how she used to communicate online. "If I hadn't made those mistakes, I wouldn't have then gone on to go, 'Oh, okay, I actually need to change course', and this has made me a better and wiser person." In fact, self-accountability has become a core tenet of Jamil's advocacy. Amid the rise of far-right extremism around the world, infighting among the left, and some hard-won rights and freedoms, particularly for women, "taking a huge backswing", Jamil's belief that "perfection is the enemy of progress" is perhaps more vital than ever. "We don't really have time for everyone to wait to be the perfect feminist or the perfect activist," she says. You just have to scrap in now before we end up in a bunch of red coats with white bonnets. It's no surprise to Jamil that the recent sociopolitical regression, particularly in the US, has coincided with thinness being glamorised once again and the increasing normalisation of and , largely pedalled via social media. Rather, she says, it's "by design". "The only reason any grown adult man would want a grown adult woman to look and behave and have the body of a barely pubescent girl is to keep her small in every way; make sure she's not eating enough so she's not got the strength to fight for her rights, make sure she's consumed and worried and panicking over every tiny 'imperfection' on her face so she's distracted, she doesn't have time to organise; make sure she's not sleeping enough, make sure she's got low self-esteem." But Jamil says she's perplexed why, after so much positive progress around things like fat liberation, body positivity, feminism, and understanding the misogynistic roots of beauty standards, women are still willing to comply. "It's honestly creeped me out watching grown women in 2025 lap it up again as if we learned nothing in the last 10 years," she says while also emphasising she supports people's right to do what they want to their own bodies. "It's like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind happened, and everyone's brains just got wiped of everything that we all collectively discussed, because we have Stockholm syndrome for the patriarchy — and we have to just own that." Jamil, admittedly, isn't entirely immune to the pressure to conform. "There's no way I would wear the dresses I wear if I didn't live with a man that I wanted to sleep with. I would be wearing much more comfortable clothes, I wouldn't wash my hair, I don't think I'd brush my teeth," she says with a laugh. "We're all guilty of it — but to what extent are you willing to punish or risk your body, your life, and your mental and physical health for a patriarchal standard?" The beauty and diet industry will always make sure that you feel like a pig, no matter what you do. The cyclical and, at times dangerous nature of beauty standards is largely why Jamil has sworn off undergoing cosmetic surgery and treatments, such as . Like imperfection, ageing naturally and entering her "crone era" is something she's actively embracing — and hopes to inspire others to do as well. ('Crone era' is a term used in some feminist circles to describe a phase marked by the wisdom of age.) "I want my 85-year-old self to like who I am now. I want her to feel like I was looking out for her, that I was excited for her arrival, and I wasn't dreading it, and doing everything I could to avoid it. "I don't want to preserve youth forever … These wrinkles that I'm getting are ones that have been formed from me frowning and figuring out how f**ked the world is, and I'm glad for them. They're lines of wisdom." With so much heaviness in the world right now, Jamil's focusing her energy on injecting more humour into her work. "Everything's getting too dark. It's too dark. I can't take it anymore. I'm going to explode," she says. Next month, she's launching a new comedy podcast, Wrong Turns, which will feature "some of the funniest people in the world" sharing their "best disaster stories". "Every time you hear about something terrible or embarrassing happening to someone, there's always this need for us to turn it into an inspirational, teachable moment … [but] sometimes you don't get wiser. "Sometimes things are just shit, and we need to accept that and laugh about it." An Evening with Jameela Jamil will take place at Sydney's State Theatre on 26 April, Brisbane's QPAC Concert Hall on 27 April, and Melbourne's Hamer Hall on 28 April. Readers seeking support for body image concerns and eating disorders can contact Butterfly Foundation on 1800 33 4673. More information is available at
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Weapons' Trailer Teases Children Vanishing in Horror Film From ‘Barbarian' Director Zach Cregger
The teaser trailer for Weapons shows a number of children fleeing their homes in writer-director Zach Cregger's horror feature. Warner Bros. releases the film in theaters Aug. 8. The cast includes Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong and Amy Madigan. More from The Hollywood Reporter Comedy 'Don't Tell Larry,' Led by 'She-Hulk' Actress Patty Guggenheim, Gets Summer Release (Exclusive) Ari Aster's Chaotic 'Eddington' Trailer Connects Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone Box Office: 'Minecraft' Mints More Gold With $80.6M, 'King of Kings' Leads New Films With $19M The multi-story narrative for Weapons centers on a small town where children have been disappearing late at night. 'Those kids walked out of the homes,' a character says somberly via voiceover in the trailer. 'No one pulled them out. No one forced them.' Cregger, Roy Lee, J.D. Lifshitz, Raphael Margules and Miri Yoon serve as producers. In early 2023, The Hollywood Reporter reported that New Line won a fierce bidding war for Cregger's spec script for Weapons, with the filmmaker landing eight figures to write and direct. Led by Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard and Justin Long, Barbarian hit theaters in 2022 and became a cult hit, surpassing $45 million at the global box office. Cregger hit the CinemaCon stage in Las Vegas earlier this month to share the first footage from Weapons. During the presentation, New Line boss Richard Brener described the movie as 'intriguing and unpredictable, with a nice helping of batshit insane.' The director got his start in Hollywood as a member of the comedy group The Whitest Kids U' Know, and his acting credits include starring roles on the series Dads With Kids and Wrecked. Next up, Cregger is writing and directing a reboot of the Resident Evil franchise, with THR reporting last month that the film is eyeing Weapons star Abrams for the lead. Best of The Hollywood Reporter "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked 20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Right Way to Make a Superhero Human
This article contains spoilers through Episode 6 of Daredevil: Born Again. For a character whose flagship show ended seven years ago, the blind lawyer Matt Murdock—better known as the vigilante Daredevil—has maintained a steady presence on Marvel's roster. In the film Spider-Man: No Way Home, he impressed Peter Parker (Tom Holland) with his reflexes. In the TV series She-Hulk, he flirted with the titular heroine. And there he was again, this time in the limited series Echo, beating up goons with his nunchucks. Played by Charlie Cox, Matt became a fun, reliable go-to for cameos, often providing cheeky comic relief and memorable one-liners while getting other superheroes out of trouble. This seemingly well-adjusted Matt Murdock is a stark contrast from the tortured Matt Murdock viewers originally met a decade ago, on Netflix's Daredevil. And yet, Daredevil: Born Again, which is meant to function as both a revival and a continuation of that earlier series, makes sense of its protagonist's evolution from brooding antihero to quippy role model. The Disney+ show leans into what made its Netflix predecessor a success, incorporating plenty of bone-crunching action. It also deploys a clever, deceptively simple mode of storytelling that's rare among Marvel's many interconnected and bingeable streaming offerings over the years. Born Again weaves smaller, episodic adventures into its larger, serialized story: The move allows it to balance the exposition required of a superhero-origin tale with the development of Matt himself, and of the world around him. Born Again follows Matt as he sinks into an identity crisis over how best to serve justice: as the sensitive attorney who takes on pro bono cases for those in need, or as his angry, billy-club-throwing alter ego who uses his superhuman senses and reflexes to take down enemies. The show explores this tension by regularly shifting tones from one installment to the next and following an ensemble of Matt's allies and adversaries who are similarly searching for direction. Some episodes offer a bleak examination of a character refusing to heal. Others study the human capacity for starting over; even Matt's nemesis, the crime boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D'Onofrio), is attempting to forge a new path as New York City's mayor. And though Matt will always succumb to being Daredevil, Born Again probes whether his vigilantism is the best way to help the city's people—or himself. [Read: The most vital Marvel series yet] Take the two episodes that premiered this week. In the first—the season's shortest entry, at 39 minutes—Matt gets caught up in a bank heist. It's a self-contained story in which Matt keeps a group of average New Yorkers safe during a subsequent hostage crisis, a classic comic-book scenario that draws clear lines between the heroes and the villains and ratchets up the absurdity. (It's St. Patrick's Day, and the robbers are Irish; the script is heavy on luck-related puns.) Though Matt's fellow hostages urge him not to get involved, he stops the crooks by surprising them with his skills. Fisk has vowed to destroy him if he ever puts on the Daredevil costume again—so Matt saves the day by outwitting and out-punching the robbers without ever suiting up. The next episode, however, trades the playfulness for weightier stakes. Once again, there's an extremely comic-booky villain: a masked serial killer who goes by the name Muse, because he uses his victims' blood to paint murals. When Matt learns that Muse has captured a client's niece, he feels he must intervene. Pushed to don his Daredevil getup once more, he ruthlessly pummels Muse when he finds him. Part of the scene plays triumphantly, with Matt clearly finding cathartic pleasure in cutting loose more aggressively than he can out of his costume, while managing to recover the kidnapped girl. But in a bittersweet twist, Muse gets away despite Matt's efforts to stop him. All of that ferality, in other words, was for naught. Where one episode is almost comical, the other is fully grim. In both, Matt's flawed, core motive—his need to be someone else's savior—drives the action. By emphasizing its protagonist's emotional complexity, the show avoids the kind of wheel-spinning narrative bloat that has dogged each of the Marvel projects on Netflix. Matt is built to withstand contrasting interpretations: The writer Frank Miller's run of the Daredevil comics offered a dark and serious (and arguably definitive) interpretation of him, for instance, whereas Mark Waid's, in the early 2010s, placed the antihero in a more lighthearted context. The new Disney+ show shares the agility of those stories, adopting its Netflix predecessor's somber visual style and electrifying set pieces while experimenting with the tone. These creative choices help reflect the character's tumultuous relationship with his alter ego; being Daredevil can allow him to, in rousing fashion, protect people without relying on legal arguments and court cases. Yet it can also reveal a side of himself he fears. [Read: The failed promise of the new Captain America] That said, reintroducing a superhero to an audience can be a limiting, even tedious exercise. There are a few too many glum monologues about the burden of wearing a mask. An ongoing subplot about disgruntled members of the New York Police Department is underbaked: Although the issue of police brutality, along with officers adopting the Punisher's logo, echoes real-life occurrences, the storyline largely serves to force Matt and Fisk back into each other's orbits. And the show can't ignore that it's a cog in the Marvel machine, giving screen time to vaguely familiar faces—a secondary antagonist from Hawkeye, a supporting character from Ms. Marvel—to wink at their shared universe. But Born Again grasps the real appeal of a comic-book character like Daredevil, whose adventures happen not in CGI-ridden multiverses but on actual city streets. Even when back-to-back episodes look like polar opposites, they share the same function: examining Matt's journey to rediscover his purpose. In the end, Born Again suggests, what makes Daredevil interesting isn't his abilities—superpowered and otherwise. It's how, in his ongoing quest to better understand himself, he's as human as anyone else. Article originally published at The Atlantic
Forbes
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Horror Comedy ‘The Monkey' Gets Digital Streaming Release Date
"The Monkey" partial poster. The Monkey — a hit horror comedy from Longlegs filmmaker Osgood Perkins — is apparently coming soon to digital streaming. Rated R, The Monkey was released in theaters on Feb. 21. The logline for The Monkey reads, 'When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.' Directed by Perkins, The Monkey stars Theo James (the Divergent series) as twin brothers Hal and Bill, Tatiana Maslany (She-Hulk, Orphan Black) plays the twins' mother, Lois and Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Yellowjackets) as Ted, who is married to Hal. Christian Convery plays the young versions of Hal and Bill, while Colin O'Brien plays Bill's estranged son, Petey. Perkins, who adapted the screenplay from Stephen King's short story of the same name, also stars in The Monkey as Uncle Chip. According to When to Stream, The Monkey is expected to be released on digital streaming via premium video on demand on Friday, April 4. While When to Stream is typically accurate with its PVOD reports, the streaming tracker noted that The Monkey's studio Neon has not announced or confirmed the release date and it is subject to change. Prime Video currently has The Monkey listed for pre-order for $24.99, which is also the film's digital purchase price. Since digital rental prices are typically $5 less than purchase prices, viewers can expect to rent The Monkey for $19.99 for a 48-hour period. Per The Numbers, The Monkey earned nearly $38 million domestically and $22.1 million internationally for a worldwide box office tally of $60.1 million against an $11 million production budget before prints and advertising costs. The Monkey was also a hit with Rotten Tomatoes critics, who collectively gave the horror comedy a 79% 'fresh' rating based on 261 reviews. The RT Critics Consensus for the film reads, 'Cruelly clever with some unforgettably gory set pieces, The Monkey reaffirms director Osgood Perkins' horror bona fides while revealing he also has a surprising -- albeit sick -- sense of humor.' Audiences weren't nearly as impressed, however, and gave The Monkey a 57% 'rotten' rating on RT's Popcornmeter based on 1,000-plus verified user ratings. The RT audience summary for The Monkey reads, 'More fun than a barrel of horror, The Monkey still delivers the gore it promises through a predictable and somewhat enjoyable story.' The Monkey is expected to arrive on PVOD on April 4.
