Marvel’s latest effort tries its hand at comedy

Cinema: Ant-Man. Directed by Peyton Reed. Nationwide, cert 12A. Rating: ***. The Salt of the Earth. Directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Rubeiro Salgado. Selected, cert 12A. Rating: ****. The Gallows (nationwide, cert 15A). Unseasonal found-footage ab

Marvel’s timing is impeccable: just when we were getting sick of superhero epics, they give us a clever and funny superhero comedy

Having destroyed the world umpteen times in the past decade, Marvel Studios thinks small for the latest addition to its endless pantheon of superheroes with Ant-Man. It’s the billion-dollar franchise maker’s ...