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Sir Ridley Scott? Not a fan of superhero movies, it seems. The Alien director has fired both barrels at the ubiquitous, spandex-clad genre in a new interview with Deadline (opens in new tab). “They’re fucking boring as shit,” Scott said, clearly not mincing his words. “Their scripts are not any …

BATMAN BC… After dusting off the swords-and-sandals sub-genre with Gladiator in 2000, Sir Ridley Scott now has a crack at reviving the Biblical epic. Such movies were big, in every way, in the ’50s and ’60s, when pictures like Ben-Hur, Quo Vadis, King Of Kings, The Ten Commandments and The …