Dec 4
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There’s this thing I’ve been doing. I’m not proud of it. It’s embarrassing. But I do it every time I get bored or…
Apr 5 2019
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The first time we see Wakanda in a Marvel movie—the physical location, not a blip on a map or a word spoken in…
Mar 22 2019
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There’s a moment in 2017’s Wonder Woman that’s so inspiring, and so largely unprecedented, that it literally brought…
Mar 8 2019
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In the opening moments of Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds turns directly to the camera and asks a rhetorical question:…
Feb 22 2019
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One day, we’ll get the Avengers party movie. Maybe. Hopefully. The best scene of Joss Whedon’s 2015 blockbuster Aveng…
Feb 8 2019
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Marvel was feeling itself. That’s the only real explanation. The comic book company had recovered from bankruptcy,…
Jan 25 2019
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Zack Snyder hates Superman.
Jan 11 2019
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Years before the Infinity War, the Avengers assembled for Marvel’s first crossover blockbuster blast
In the past decade, Hollywood has attempted to transform the franchise into something else: the cinematic universe.…
Dec 14 2018
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“The Marvel Universe has gone nuts; we’re going to have a fricking Captain America movie if we’re not careful.” This…
Nov 30 2018
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Scott Pilgrim is not a superhero. He is not a hero. He is only barely a functional human being. He is a dipshit. So…
Nov 16 2018
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In a lot of ways, Watchmen, the comic series that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons started publishing in 1986, is a story…
Nov 2 2018
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Midway through Christopher Nolan’s 2008 movie The Dark Knight, the Joker gets himself arrested so that he can then…
Oct 19 2018
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Here’s a fun mental exercise: Describe Venom to a child. I’ve tried it. It’s ridiculous.
Oct 5 2018
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If Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins was the first movie to really take superheroes seriously, then maybe Bryan…
Sep 21 2018
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Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies are as revered as any franchise of summer blockbusters can really be in this day…
Sep 7 2018
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Nobody starts with the origin stories. At least when I first fell in love with comic books, the lure wasn’t the…
Aug 24 2018
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It could’ve worked. Maybe it should’ve worked. You can understand what everyone involved was thinking. Superhero…
Aug 10 2018
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Sony Pictures could’ve owned the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it could’ve owned it for cheap. The rights to…
Jul 27 2018
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If you wanted to take a good, hard look at the difficulties of translating comic books into movies, Alan Moore makes…
Jul 13 2018
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Throughout the ’80s and ’90s, the X-Men comics captured the collective imagination of the kids and teenagers who…