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REVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 6 “For All Time. Always.”

Perhaps better than anything I’ve ever seen, “For All Time. Always.” epitomizes the phrase, “What the hell did I just watch?” All of the problems with Loki reach their apex in this finale, an oppressively boring “climax” that bungles its humor – the placement of which is, as ever, mi...

Black Widow vs. The Red Menace

Black Widow has been around for a few days now, both in theaters and on Disney+ (for an extra fee that’s significantly more than the price of a movie ticket even here in New York City), and if the box office is any indication, people are seeing it – and, according to the Rotten Tomatoes …...

REVIEW: Black Widow (2021)

Black Widow is not what you think it is. It may be what you thought it was because it’s what the early trailers led you to believe: a fun, grounded (as much as these movies can be, anyway) Marvel film in the vein of The Winter Soldier. But outside of the trailers and posters (and, …

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REVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 3 “Lamentis”

With “Lamentis,” Loki takes on another of the characteristics of its eponymous trickster and shapeshifts, becoming a buddy cop action-comedy without breaking stride. The story and mythology behind the Time Variance Authority take a backseat (though an important piece of the puzzle does lock into...

Is Kevin Feige’s Development of the MCU a Myth?

The phrase “Captain Marvel is the most powerful character in the MCU” was a popular Kevin Feige quote from an interview with Vulture to promote that character’s already controversial film. These types of statements are dumb since a character’s diegetic power levels are irrele...

REVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 1 “Glorious Purpose”

Loki was supposed to be my reward for sitting through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. After a series of lectures about race and borders and how terrorists who gleefully kill innocent people are the real heroes, the God of Mischief was set to bring back the fun that had been sucked out of the &hel...