(As the title above suggests, this review will contain SPOILERS. Proceed at your own discretion.) There is no more an unenviable task than trying to stick the landing on a finale. This is even more so when that finale happens to be the capstone to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), a sprawling 11 year and 22 movie …
(Obviously there will be some SPOILERS in this post. Do with that what you will.) Let me get this out of the way first: Captain Marvel the character, as portrayed quite brilliantly by Brie Larson, is awesome. Along with Black Panther she quickly vaults into the upper echelon of interesting Marvel superheroes I can't wait to see …
(Warning: SPOILERS are going to be discussed freely in this article so if you haven't seen the movie STAY AWAY. For a spoiler-free(ish) review click here.) In case the above warnings did not make it clear enough, this will be a debrief of Avengers: Infinity War which will include a discussion of MAJOR SPOILERS. It is safe to say that …
(SPOILER ALERT: Obviously plot details are going to be discussed in this review and if you don't want any of them revealed to you, then stop reading and just go watch the movie. I'm not going to give away any major plot developments in this review and I will save that for a different post, but …
The emergence of superhero movies as a boon for Hollywood has long been frustratingly monolithic in the demographics of its said superheroes. So for that reason alone, a superhero story as profoundly and unabashedly African featuring a cast of almost exclusively non-white actors like Black Panther is an achievement worth celebrating and championing in and of …
(Original Post on Nov. 17 2017. Updated to include latest MCU releases) In 2008 Marvel almost innocuously dropped Iron Man on the world to little hype or fanfare. I remember as a comic-book fan being much more excited for Christopher Nolan's Batman follow-up The Dark Knight and being much more lukewarm towards Marvel as their recent track-record …
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Thor: Ragnarok could have gone in one of two directions. It could have either decided to act as a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) expansion machine (like Captain America: Civil War) as it tried to connect all the loose threads to set up next May's enormous Avengers: Infinity War. Or it could function as a proper conclusion to the …
Spider-Man: Homecoming is aptly named for several reasons. From a purely corporate level, it is the official celebration of Spider-Man’s return to Marvel Studios (through Sony Pictures’ gracious lending of the character to the Marvel Cinematic Universe). But from a more essential level, Homecoming represents a return of the character to his roots as a …
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