It has been 40 years since Marvel released its first theatrical movie, and it remains the most bizarre film the company has ever produced. While there was a Captain America serial from 1944, that was when the company was still called Timely Comics. Other than that, Marvel mostly stuck with TV shows until 1986, with […]
Marvel’s Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year was packed with announcements and reveals, including new footage from Avengers: Doomsday, confirmation of Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider, and David Jonsson’s casting as the new Black Panther. One project curiously absent from the Comic-Con festivities was the upcoming X-Men reboot, but progress is being […]
The summer movie season delivered some unexpected results this year. For the first part of the season, indie horror movies like Obsession and Backrooms ruled the multiplex as most of the traditional tentpole offerings faltered to various degrees. In July, things reverted back to “normal” as the big-budget fare reasserted itself. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey […]
The Punisher is one of the main characters in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and I absolutely hate what the film did to him. Ever since Frank Castle made his debut in Daredevil season 2, I hoped that he would take on a bigger role in the MCU, interacting with other Marvel characters outside of the […]
Wolverine has gotten quite a reputation over the years. The ol’Canucklehead was first introduced in battle with the Hulk and Wendigo, matching their ferocity and punching way above his weight class before going on to the X-Men and becoming a savage superstar. Logan is one of the first major anti-heroes in comic history and presaged […]
In the 2010s, Disney became the dominant studio in the film industry thanks to their impressive collection of extremely lucrative franchises. New installments in the Marvel and Star Wars universes routinely brought in billions of dollars at the box office and broke all-time records; The Force Awakens‘ domestic haul of $936.6 million is a mark […]
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has a lot of battles for the Wall-Crawler, from fighting classic villains to the ninja organization The Hand, and even two actual Marvel Comics heroes. During the movie, Spider-Man has to deal with both the antihero The Punisher and then has to fight an Avenger in Hulk. The last time the […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is eighteen years into a single continuous experiment, currently setting the stage for a soft reboot with the franchise’s most ambitious crossover. Avengers: Doomsday opens in December 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars in December 2027, a two-film culmination built to close the Multiverse Saga and reset the timeline for the […]
Marvel Comics took superheroes to the next level. While you can argue that DC did more for the maturation of the medium in the ’80s, that wouldn’t have been possible without Marvel changing the way superheroes worked in the ’60s. Marvel heroes weren’t the all-powerful gods and perfect examples of goodness like those of their […]
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day has finally arrived and it gives us something the franchise set up at the end of the previous film about the hero, Spider-Man: No Way Home. That 2021 movie ended with everyone forgetting who Peter Parker is, leaving the hero on something of an island. He also truly came into […]