You may have seen every single Marvel film that’s been released so far on the big screen, but what if you could pay money to see them all again...on an even bigger screen? You know, after you’ve also rewatched them a bunch of times now on Blu-ray or airings on FX or whatever. Are you still in?
Stop! Rumor time: If you’ve been paying attention to the ongoing uproar over director James Gunn being fired from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 thanks to a right-wing hit job over a series of old, offensive tweets, then you know it looked unlikely he’d get his job back. Well, today comes the odd news that...maybe he…
One of the nice things about a big, media-friendly event like the TCA press tour (currently rounding the corner into its final week of press release-unleashing hell) is that you can sometimes directly ask the people who make decisions about the TV you love why they did all those terrible things to the TV that you…
The first Iron Man film debuted with such phenomenal confidence that it set the template for a whole new kind of superhero movie storytelling. Twenty films later, Marvel is still largely building on the template of that original Iron Man film for its ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. But the success of Iron Man…
Although you’d be forgiven for briefly forgetting there was a teen-focused Marvel superhero show currently running on Freeform—because damn if there aren’t a lot of these Marvel TV shows currently in the mix—Cloak & Dagger are nevertheless out there right now, doing some periodically intriguing work with their story…
For the better part of a year, it was looking like a done deal: Disney was buying the majority of 20th Century Fox. But last month, Comcast threw its hat in the ring, their $65 billion offer the Professor X standing between Wolverine and Captain America, preventing the two from locking horns. Now? Not so much.
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn gave no shortage of Marvel fans an urgent sense of purpose when he confirmed a heretofore-undiscovered easter egg in the 2014 original. Exploratory theories and videos abound, and though Gunn lauded YouTuber MasterTainment for finding bits of the egg, he still says the dude…
Note: This article contains plot points of Ant-Man And The Wasp.
Peyton Reed has a reputation for smart and savvy directing, delivering witty, frothy fun in films like Bring It On, Down With Love, and that movie where Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston break up, The Break-Up. It seemed like a thankless task when he was brought on by Marvel in 2014 to take over directing duties on …
Ant-Man’s been a curious character in the Marvel universe, having been built as a lighter, more comic character due to the films’ whimsical tones, Paul Rudd’s doofy performance, and, well, being called Ant-Man. Yet the films found the character venturing into situations foreign to any other Avenger—that whole…
He’s been Ghost Rider. He’s been Big Daddy. He’s been Superman (after a failed earlier attempt). And now, purchaser of castles and fine portrayer of going bananas Nicolas Cage can add another superhero to his roster of costumed vigilantes: Spider-Man. Or, rather, a somewhat unusual version of the web-crawler.
One of the biggest criticisms leveled against the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that the films are too similar—that they, for example, too frequently end with the hero battling some (usually) forgettable supervillain or army in an orgy of CGI destruction. There’s some validity to this, but it overlooks how varied these…
Did the crushing cliffhanger of Avengers: Infinity War leave you anxious to find out what happens next? You’ll have to wait until next May, when the still-untitled fourth Avengers film hits theaters. In the meantime, there’s Ant-Man And The Wasp, a superhero digestif that finds Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), the…
Sure, there are plenty of downsides to Disney owning every major creative property under the sun. But one of the few benefits is that all the mashup, crossover events that were once limited to the fantasies of comic book nerds could now become a reality. So, when Luke Skywalker and Captain America—or, more accurately,…
Donald Glover’s aborted Deadpool animated series continues to tantalize us with its permanently untapped potential, existing as a never-to-be-realized mash-up between one of the world’s most popular comic book characters and one of its most meteoric modern talents. The show’s sudden abandonment earlier this year feels…
Stan Lee always wanted to make movies. In the ’60s and ’70s, the comic book writer helped to create dozens of characters, and he also laid the groundwork for hundreds more to come into existence. He’d always had the idea that these characters belonged in movies. By 1981, he’d moved away from Marvel’s New York offices…
In addition to releasing what will almost certainly be the two biggest films of the year, Marvel Studios is celebrating its decade of blockbuster movies with a new series of 33 posters highlighting the many heroes of the MCU. But after giving them all a thorough perusal, we have one pressing question that must be…
Marvel or DC? When it comes to films, that answer is pretty clear. Though it’s had plenty of bumps along the way—Age Of Ultron, anyone?—the Marvel Cinematic Universe has proven itself to be clear-eyed, emotional, and just a lot of damn fun. The DC universe, on the other hand, is a slog, with iconic characters like…
Chris Evans may be an A-list millionaire chiseled from pure, unvarnished marble, but, somehow, he still resonates as the most chill Avenger. Maybe that’s ‘cause he shows up charmingly trashed to red carpets, loves his very good dog, and actually uses his fame to help others. Evans exudes a blue-collar quality in…
Here’s something we’ve come to realize of late: There’s always a cameo. If you’re watching a modern big-budget movie, there’s a good chance that some A-lister is hiding on the fringes, whether it be Daniel Craig and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Last Jedi, Kevin Smith in The Force Awakens, Matt Damon in Thor: Ragnarok, …
