In a time when Marvel’s movies tend not to be big hits, Marvel keeps making new ones that really, really need to be big hits. The latest is Captain America: Brave New World, the long-delayed and extensively reshot film starring Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson. According to “a contact” reporting t...
Read MoreMarvel may finally be looking to one of its (probable) successes as a springboard to its next Avengers film. Deadline reports that the studio wants Shawn Levy, director of the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine, to helm the movie previously titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. According to Deadline�...
Read MoreIt’s been a few days since the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer arrived, and I’ve watched it many times since. It’s a great trailer that promises a fun movie with two fan-favorite characters played by the actors who made them big-screen stars, and it gives frustrated Marvel fans some hope tha...
Read MoreRobert Downey Jr. is willing to save the mega-franchise he helped start. In an interview with Esquire (which was published today but was conducted partly in January and partly in the days after he won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Oppenheimer), Downey was inevitably asked about Marvel and ...
Read MoreDid you see Monkey Man this weekend? Probably not; the action movie and directorial debut of actor Dev Patel made $10.1 million, coming in second place at the box office to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, which made three times as much money in its second weekend. That’s well under predictions, ...
Read MorePerception and reality are often at loggerheads, and that’s true of the geek community as much as anywhere else. It’s generally assumed that fans of sci-fi, video games, and comic books are largely left-leaning, not only because entertainment now speaks almost exclusively to that contingent (and...
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