ODEON Magazine 109 March/April 2019 | Page 6

Watch the trailer Watch the trailer Captain Marvel TBC Meet the mightiest MCU hero of them all! There are bad days and then there are really bad days... DIRECTORs Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck starring Brie Larson, Gemma Chan, Samuel L. Jackson, jude law FOR MORE Marvel, see page 16 6 odeon.co.uk Us TBC Fuelled by terrific performances and a razor-sharp script, Jordan Peele’s second film is another horror masterclass DIRECTOR Jordan Peele starring Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss How do you follow up one of the most successful and well- received horror films in recent memory? If you’re Get Out director Jordan Peele, then you make another film in the same genre that’s just as fantastic. Starring Black Panther alumni Lupita Nyong’o and 22 MAR Winston Duke, Us sees a young family travelling to their beach house to spend some time with their friends. There, events take a turn for the horrific when four uninvited guests arrive. Guests who look exactly like them… Yikes! While Get Out had comedic undertones, Us is more of a straight-up horror, designed largely to scare the bejesus out of you. And boy does it succeed. PEELE PEDIGREE Us is only Jordan Peele’s second film. His first, Get Out – a horror satire reflecting the realities of racism in today’s America – was a monstrous hit, taking $255 million at the global box office and winning Peele the 2018 Best Original Screenplay Oscar. The film was also nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Director and Best Actor (for Daniel Kaluuya). If you haven’t seen it, check it out. It’s a modern-day horror classic. Released, fittingly, on International 8 MAR Women’s Day, Captain Marvel is the first solo film for a Marvel heroine. So was it worth the wait? Absolutely! Starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson as former US fighter pilot Carol Danvers, the film tells the origin story of our titular high-flyer, specifically how Danvers became one of the universe’s most powerful entities and joined the elite Starforce. With Sam Jackson appearing as Avengers fave Nick Fury, this 21st film from the MCU is as funny, jaw- dropping and tremendously entertaining as anything the studio has produced to date, with an added layer of intrigue: it’s set in 1995! How, then, does this story fit into the bigger MCU picture, specifically Avengers: Endgame, which follows right on Marvel’s heels? That would be telling, but we can say this: block out your diary, because this is part one of the movie event of 2019 – and it’s going to blow your mind.