Nimona has had an interesting path to the screen. This adaptation of ND Stevenson’s graphic novel began life at Blue Sky Studios, best known for animated comedies like Ice Age and Rio. The film was 70% complete when Disney purchased the studio and scrapped Nimona. A year later, Annapurna a...
Read MoreThe Sorcerer Supreme (or the guy who’s supposed to be the Sorcerer Supreme, anyway) is coming back to the MCU soon. In an interview for the JW3 Speaker Series, Benedict Cumberbatch indicated that Doctor Strange would be returning in a movie that will be filmed next year. When asked about his upcom...
Read More“Betrayed” is the episode that comes in seemingly every Disney+ Marvel show: the turn. It’s where something that was either enjoyable or looked like it might be great reveals itself for the undercooked, politically skewed, poorly plotted, character-destroying pablum it really is. And, as alway...
Read MoreWith its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...
Read MoreWe have a new Superman and Lois Lane. After a two-day screen test and a week and a half of deliberating, the media is reporting – although Deadline seems to have been first – that David Corenswet has been chosen to play Superman/Clark Kent in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy, while Rachel Brosnah...
Read MoreThe Skrulls aren’t the only worrying thing about Secret Invasion. Anyone who’s watched the series premiere, which landed on Disney+ yesterday, probably thought the opening titles were a bit strange. When I saw them, I wondered why Nick Fury looked like a Langolier.If you haven’t seen them,...
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