Marvel fans are still trying to keep track of who was and was not wiped out by Thanos’ genocidal finger-snap at the end of Avengers: Infinity War, but aside from who we actually see in the movie and who gets a good result from this Thanos website, we’re just going to have to depend on Marvel actors arbitrarily decided…
As its plan to release 1,000 original movies and tv series by the end of 2018 reaches the halfway point, Netflix’s June offerings are, as they have been for a while now, heavy on the original content. There’s some good stuff in there, too: OG true-crime phenomenon The Staircase debuts new episodes on June 8, and…
Han Solo is based on a familiar archetype: Star Wars’ lovable scoundrel can trace his roots back to our earliest myths, while there are progenitors of his world-weary cynicism in Humphrey Bogart’s movies, his charming roguishness in Douglas Fairbanks’, and his reluctantly outlaw heroics throughout the samurai films…
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is switching up the animal movie titles, announcing his next project will be JoJo Rabbit, not the Bubbles The Chimp movie that Netflix bought last year. And as he described the film to The Wrap, it sounds considerably less grounded in reality than a stop-motion movie about Michael…
Last night’s Oscars were intermittently funny, mostly fine, and, reportedly, not super highly viewed. Maybe next year they should pony up for some larger productions instead of just covering the stage in crystals? The Lonely Island tweeted out today that they “wrote a song for this year’s Oscars that was overly…
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With Thor: Ragnarok, Taika Waititi nailed his contribution to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so it’s not hard to see why fans and even the studio would be clamoring to have him back in the director’s chair at some point in the future. Ragnarok did close out the Asgardian’s trilogy, though, which means the What We Do…
In conjunction with the announcement that Thor: Ragnarok now has an official DVD/Blu-ray release date, Marvel has unveiled an exclusive gag reel that proves the making of the film was just as much of a delight as the finished product. That’s thanks in no small part to director Taika Waititi, who opens the short clip…
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Thor: Ragnarok’s Hela, the goddess of death as well as Thor and Loki’s sister, is Marvel’s first female supervillain and a considerable badass. Powered by seemingly limitless otherworldly dark forces, her strength is exemplified by her intimidating appearance, punctuated by her antler-like headdress that’s like…
Let’s bury the lede for a moment, put the blockbusters on the back burner, and talk about what The A.V. Club considers very exciting news: Lady Bird has broken into America’s box-office top 10, grossing more than a million dollars on just 37 screens. That’s an average of about $33,000 per screen, which basically means…
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…
[This post contains—and complains about—spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok. It also reveals a major plot twist from the 26-year-old blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day.]Â
Faced with an increasingly dispiriting reality, Americans chose to spend their weekend laughing at the funny, hunky god-man and his angry green friend in Taika Waititi’s colorful, irreverent Thor: Ragnarok. Forsooth, the 17th entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe enjoyed a massive No. 1 opening, grossing $121 million…
Though Jimmy Kimmel usually gets the Marvel movie scoops (owing to ABC being partners with Disney and all), the Live! host has been looking after his infant son this week. But the promotional void was quickly filled by The Late Late Show’s James Corden, who convinced the Thor: Ragnarok to put on a live version of…
So many movies, so little time. Every week brings a new crop of them, opening in multiplexes and arthouse theaters across the nation, and arriving in increasingly high volumes on streaming platforms like Netflix. How’s a voracious moviegoer to keep up? That’s where The A.V. Club comes in. The first week of every…
Last week, Tessa Thompson, who plays the fierce Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok, responded to an online complaint from some narrow-minded butthead about the “tomboy-ish” look of her character. After a fan mistakenly wrote that the same Valkyrie from the comics, whose buxom figure was being called canon by said butthead,…
Thor, played with a familiar twinkle of jovial regality by Chris Hemsworth, spends the first few minutes of Thor: Ragnarok in chains, hanging sideways in a straitjacket of iron links. Things do not get easier for him. Like Tony Stark in Iron Man 3, the god of thunder will lose his weapon of choice: that mighty hammer…
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s expansion has touched on even the more tedious parts of a superhero’s life, like paying rent, courtesy of Taika Waititi’s Team Thor short films. The Thor: Ragnarok director introduced fans to the Odinson’s mortal roommate Darryl last year, who won’t actually be in any Thor movies, but…
Most people who watched Tessa Thompson gracefully but forcefully cut her way across the Thor: Ragnarok teasers have come away with a good impression of the Creed star’s portrayal of Valkyrie. Then there are the dinguses for whom 2D boobs will never be big enough, who think anything other than wasp-figured superheroes…
