Eternals is an Ambitious Film that is Caught Between Pursuing its Vision and Still Trying to be a Marvel Movie
Eternals, directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao, hasn’t garnered the most favorable reviews in the lead up to its release. Having watched the film, it’s easy to understand why: it’s plot is complex and dense, marrying the superhero backdrop…
What If Stumbles as Much as it Soars in First Season, Putting Familiar Marvel Characters in New Situations
What If had perhaps the riskiest premise out of the slate of Marvel TV shows coming out in 2021. Coming off the heels of the far-reaching ramifications of Loki, What If takes a look at how familiar situations from the…
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is One of Marvel’s Best Standalone Films in Years
As popular and successful Marvel films have become, they have also attracted their fair share of detractors. People who have grown weary about the onslaught of superhero films have coined the term ‘capeshit’, and auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Dennis…
Loki is Marvel’s Weirdest Show Yet- Essentially, their Own Version of Doctor Who
Loki is perhaps the best salvo yet in Marvel’s new direction for its tv properties. It’s definitely the weirdest series so far, and it’s got the best of both worlds: largely self-contained for most of its runtime while still bearing…
Black Widow is a Satisfying but Flawed Blockbuster that Chooses to be an Okay Superhero Story When it Could Have Been an Excellent Spy Story
After fans clamored for it for years, and a year-long delay due to the pandemic, Black Widow is finally here. It also marks the return of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the big screen after 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home.…
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is an Ambitious Superhero Story that Doesn’t Quite Achieve What it Sets Out to Do
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is interesting, in that it’s ambitious and bites off more than it can chew. The result is an entertaining, but flawed series that suffers from inconsistency and abandoned plotlines. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) decides…
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