From Iron Man on, the gajillion-dollar Marvel Cinematic Universe has toyed with portraying its characters as A-list and B-list celebrities or even actors cast in roles—a Hollywoodian fantasy where superheroes go to lunch, get asked for autographs, mingle at after-parties. (Avengers Tower is supposed to be in Midtown…
The Hulk has become one of the big, green cornerstones of the MCU, but any future solo outings are still in limbo. Although we’ll soon see him tearing up the galaxy alongside the Odinson in Thor: Ragnarok, Mark Ruffalo doesn’t think the road-trip film will launch a Hulk franchise. It’s not for lack of interest, from…
Who he is: The Hulk, a.k.a. Bruce Banner
If you hung around for Doctor Strange’s post-credit scenes, then you’ve already witnessed the first meeting between the not-yet Sorcerer Supreme and Thor. That brief introduction seemed to tease their appearances in Avengers: Infinity War, but since the demigod sought out the Doctor in pursuit of his half-brother and…
Mark Ruffalo has previously described Thor: Ragnarok as “an intergalactic buddy road movie with Banner and Thor.” Now the prolific Instagram user has created quite a nice portrait of the film’s off-screen camaraderie as well. The third Thor film is currently filming in Australia and Ruffalo has been sharing photos of…
This is essentially the origin of every supervillain in comic book history, isn’t it? Regular, well-meaning guy has a novel idea for a technological experiment, but something goes wrong. Horribly wrong. In this case, the regular, well-meaning guy is a Redditor who goes by the name ZaganOstia, and his technological…
We’ve been getting news about the seemingly Hulk-centric Thor: Ragnarok for awhile now, from new love interests to new Jeff Goldblums, and all of it has sounded promising, even if Natalie Portman still wants nothing to do with the whole thing. But hold on to your Gamma radiation, because we’ve saved the most exciting…
Mark Ruffalo has previously described Thor: Ragnarok as a “universal road movie” and “buddy picture” between Thor and Bruce Banner/the Hulk, and according to a new Entertainment Tonight interview with the actor, you’re going to see a lot of Hulk action in the trilogy-capper. Apropos of the Hulk’s favorite pastime,…
5:02 p.m.—I arrived at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 Theaters an hour early to secure a seat for my upcoming ordeal. I reasoned that this was a good time to arrive, because it would be impossible to get there before the diehards, but it was plenty of time to secure a choice seat before the sane people started showing…
They may be faster than a speeding bullet, but even superheroes can enjoy a moment of quiet reflection amongst nature. At least, that’s the idea behind Benoit Lapray’s new photography series “The Quest For The Absolute.” Each picture finds a superhero in a beautiful landscape, alone with just nature and their…
Yesterday, Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige unveiled what is quite possibly the most influential infographic in Western history: Marvel’s Phase 3 timeline. With a calm prescience befitting the late Steve Jobs, Feige informed all what media we’d be consuming until well into the 2020 presidential campaign. And as it…
There are video game nerds, comic book nerds, and even sports nerds, but a true nerd isn’t just some guy obsessed with muscle-y men hitting each other. As Milhouse explained in an episode of the Simpsons, “nerds are smart.” Now, a biologist at Stanford is blending these two worlds together by using science to explain…
