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For Your Consideration: If Captain America: Brave New World leaves you wanting more, here are some 1970s paranoid political thrillers to chase down
Before Sam Wilson became Marvel Studios' latest Captain America, movie fans got to enjoy the Parallax View, The Conversation, and All the President's Men, each one offering a Brave New World of their own
Captain America: Brave New World has arrived, jumpstarting the MCU as it starts to make its final push towards 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday and 2027’s Avengers: Secret Wars. The first feature showcasing Sam Wilson’s Captain America (Anthony Mackie) is, according to filmmakers, looking back to 1970s political thrillers for inspiration, just as 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier — you know, the best of the Steve Rogers Cap movies — did. Which made us wonder: what if people decided to skip the superhero stand-ins and go for the real thing? With 2025 feeling like all the dystopian fears of the ‘70s are coming to fruition for a significant portion of the population, maybe it’s time to present, for your consideration, a 1970s political paranoia primer.
This is For Your Consideration, in which we try to come to terms with the inescapable fact that, honestly,
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