Sentence examples for comic flick from inspiring English sources

For all the masquerading, it really is a hysterically comic flick.

So it will be a delight to see Ejiofor reflect not just Northup's bondage and his uncertain fate, but something as light as a Marvel comic flick.

The 1992 comic flick, written by Andrew Bergman, who's done his own librettoing here--Jason Robert Brown does the tunesmithing--concerns Jack Singer Rob McCluree), a mama's boy, whose late mater (Nancy Opel) has put a curse on the lad, should he wed.

Black Panther should end its first week over/under the $291 million domestic total of Man of Steel to be the 20th-biggest comic book flick and the 20th-biggest superhero movie ever in North America (sans inflation, but give it a week or so).

It notched a superb 3.8x weekend multiplier, including a 55% jump on Saturday (a record for a comic book flick) and a mere 14% drop on Sunday (also a record for a comic book flick in China).

Finally, here's our first extended look at Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, once again proving that you don't need superpowers to thrive in a Marvel comic book flick.

After all, I hear the studio is coming around to the idea that brooding heroes are yesterday's news, and a Whedon-led Quinn outing might easily manifest as the first $1bn female-fronted comic book flick.

But in the wake of multiple Avengers outings (and last month's Captain America: Civil War) storming the global box office, the ensemble comic book flick is almost becoming old hat.

Nor has Disney tinkered too much with Marvel Studios, a 2009 purchase, allowing the company to continue its five-year build towards this summer's ensemble comic book flick The Avengers, which duly went on to post a staggering $1.5bn at the box office to wide critical acclaim.

And yeah, it will soon pass The Dark Knight in North America and both Chris Nolan Dark Knight sequels worldwide to become the biggest comic book flick worldwide that doesn't feature Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark.

It's an achingly real family melodrama first and a comic book flick second, and thus works as a triumph even for those disinterested in the super-powered action fantasy elements.