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Like FX’s The Americans TV series before it, the prologue and opening credits of Black Widow appear to be greatly inspired by a Russian spy ring arrested by the FBI in 2010.
Russia had a real-world Black Widow. Ekaterina Bykova/Shutterstock. The year 2010 turned bad for Russian spies in the U.S. when 10 were apprehended, while a further four managed to evade capture and return to Russia.
The first crop of reviews for Black Widow, most of them positive, highlight additional things to be excited about specifically, from the performances by Johansson and Marvel newbie Florence...
Black Widow is the most tactile MCU movie in ages. There are chinks in Black Widow’s armor; its CGI-heavy climax feels incongruous to its Soviet spy-fi aesthetics. There’s a...
Synopsis. In 1995, super soldier Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) (The Russian super-soldier counterpart to Captain America and a father-figure to Romanoff and Belova) and Black Widow Melina Vostokoff (Rachel Weisz) (A seasoned spy trained in the Red Room as a Black Widow and a mother-figure to Romanoff and Belova who is now one of the Red Room ...
Beyond the constant failings of the Bechdel test, the earliest versions of Romanoff’s Black Widow position the Russian spy as a temptress who becomes a damsel in distress even while playing...
Marvel’s latest blockbuster is about former Soviet superheroes in Russia. But for Russian filmgoers, “Black Widow” doesn’t feel very Russian.
