Brie Larson talked about what it means to be Captain Marvel

Brie Larson talked about what it means to be Captain Marvel

On the Los Angeles set of Captain Marvel last spring, Brie Larson downplayed the massive expectations and social significance that surrounds her role as the face of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first female-fronted superhero film. “You don’t get to decide if you’re an inspiration to people or not,” she said at the time. So what has the experience meant to her now that the film is hitting theaters this week?

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What life was like during Jesus' time?

What life was like during Jesus’ time?

Inside the new archaeological wing of Jerusalem’s Terra Sancta Museum, a hallway leads visitors past a deep water cistern, then becomes a bridge as it passes over an even deeper and older water cistern, built nearly 1,000 years ago. Tucked under a Roman Catholic Franciscan monastery within the walls of the ancient Old City, the museum’s location itself is a journey through the past of both Jerusalem and the religious order dedicated to preserving it.

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The Aftermath: An easy to watch period drama

The Aftermath: An easy to watch period drama

The characters in The Aftermath face intriguing dilemmas. Four months after the end of World War Two, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in Hamburg to join her husband, Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British military officer. How will they deal with the Germans, the vanquished enemy whose bombing of London killed their young son? Will they repair their marriage, now as chilly as the snowy landscape in which her train arrives? Will she fall into bed with the handsome German widower, Stefan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), an architect whose grand house the British have requisitioned for the Morgans’ use?

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Captain Marvel (2019) - Brie Larson

Captain Marvel with Pros and Cons

Set in the 1990s, Marvel Studios’ “Captain Marvel” is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that follows the journey of Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. While a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.

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Victor Vasarely: The art that tricks the eyes

Victor Vasarely: The art that tricks the eyes

By the early 1970s, Victor Vasarely was everywhere. Regarded by historians today as the ‘grandfather’ of Op Art, the Hungarian-French abstract artist, then in his late sixties, had watched his pioneering geometric designs and hypnotising optical illusions come to represent his generation. Vasarely’s carefully calibrated patterns of bright squares and luminous circles, which make his paintings’ surfaces appear like warping space-time webs – now rippling and concave, now spinning and convex – was the hottest of hot demands.

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