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If Ridley Scott’s film can get a triumphant sequel after more than three decades, a box-office fizzle won’t stop the series Ben Child @BenChildGeek Thu 30 Jan 2020 08.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 08.02 GMT             ‘Beguiling and enigmatic’ … Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros H as there ever been a science fiction movie more primed for sequels than Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049? At the end of the Oscar-winning 2017 neo-noir, itself a continuation of the story first told in 1982’s Blade Runner, we are left with more questions than we had in the movie’s opening frame. There is still no definitive answer on the replicant status of Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard (though matters have moved on so swiftly that this barely matters); we have seen little of the replicant uprising that was briefly teased; and the concept of r...

'Take that, Mr Hitler': the Jewish roots of superheroes Exhibition at Jewish Museum of Belgium traces backgrounds of heroes including Superman, Batman and Captain America Jennifer Rankin Thu 30 Jan 2020 07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 10.20 GMT A 1977 reprise of Superman’s fight with the Nazis, inspired by his creators. Photograph: DC Comics It was February 1940 when two American friends dreamt up how Superman would stop the second world war. “Put me down! You are hurting me,” Adolf Hitler protests to the man of steel. But Superman has other ideas. Seizing the Nazi dictator, Superman shoots into the air, faster than any plane, to pick up Josef Stalin in Moscow. Next stop Geneva to drop off the “power mad scoundrels” at the League of Nations, where they are found guilty of “unprovoked aggression against defenseless countries”. The cartoon strip How Superman Would End the War appeared in Look Magazine, almost ...