Spider-Man: No Way Home

There’s a curse of sorts that’s become attached to “the third Spider-Man movie”, one that’s brought us something very bad, something very cancelled and now something very delayed. After a Covid-afflicted shoot and the postponed release that comes with that, we have “Spider-Man: No Way Home”, a big-budget tentpole tasked with not only proving that a Spidey…

The Endgame

"Part of the journey is the end" and my oh my, what a glorious journey and end! The Avengers are dead. Long live the Avengers. For the millions who watched half the Marvel universe vaporize onscreen in the final moments of 2018’s “Infinity War” — whole standalone franchises reduced to swirling ash with a sweep of supervillain Thanos’…

Timing is Everything

As the first female-led Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, “Captain Marvel” is arriving in theaters under a heavy burden of expectations. Even after years of fans clamouring for a Black Widow standalone movie, it took a full decade and 20 MCU films for the franchise to produce a single movie with a woman protagonist. And it…

Avengers: Infinity War

Avengers: Infinity War is officially here. It feels like we have been waiting a decade, but it has finally been released and diehard Marvel Cinematic Universe fans will have no doubt seen it already. Ever since Thanos was teased in the mid-credits scene of 2012’s first Avengers, that film felt more like the start of something bigger than…