Tag: Marvel
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps— Toward the Mythic
Matt Shakman’s Fantastic Four: First Steps begins not with spectacle, but with quiet intention. The film’s heartbeat is the family dinner, where wonder, love, and uncertainty pulse beneath champagne toasts and cosmic dread. Pedro Pascal plays Reed Richards with grace tethered to guilt; his intellect is not the prize, but the price. He carries the…
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Thunderbolts: Marvel’s Misfit Heroes Find Their Groove
Thunderbolts” is a bold and refreshing addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, directed by Jake Schreier and featuring a stellar ensemble cast led by Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The film diverges from the typical superhero formula, focusing on a group of antiheroes who confront personal trauma, seek redemption, and navigate the complexities…
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Kraven the Hunter: A Ferocious Yet Flawed Entry in the Spider-Verse
MOVIE INFO: Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed, R-rated, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not…
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Deadpool and Wolverine: Fighting Against and To the Metaverse
MOVIE INFO: Deadpool’s peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat. REVIEW: Deadpool and Wolverine works nicely when the Merch with the Mouth (Ryan Reynolds as…
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The Marvels: Not So Much Modern Marvels
Movie info via Rotten Tomatoes: Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania— Getting Tinier and Tinier Until It Hardly Even Matters
Plot via IMDB: Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with strange creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible. It’s a cinematic truism that if a character says “It’s never over,”…
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“Captain Marvel”: Empowered Woman in an Un-empowering Origin Story
Captain Marvel has a women empowerment meme that occurs midway: all the earlier versions of Carol Danvers (a fierce Brie Larson) from youth to teen to adult, who got knocked down by men, get right back up and stare straight at the camera with a grim steadfast determination. That punch when it lands has the…
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“Black Panther” Is Wakanda-ful
The Black Community has been waiting a long time for something as fully representative as Black Panther. So has the MCU.
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“Avengers: Infinity War”: The Perfect Solution for Marvel Superhero Fatigue
Thanos snapping his finger and disposing of half the MCU is the best thing that could happen to those not wanting to sit through another third or fourth iteration of critically lauded and wildly fan applauded Marvel mythology.
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“Ant-Man and the Wasp” Takes the Quantum Leap Backwards
Ant-Man and the Wasp is at its best when it stays just the right size.