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Shang-Chi Actor Simu Liu Plays The Race Card Against Disney
Lyndon Hall | Aug 15, 2021 | 0
Marvel’s latest diverse lead actor, Simu Liu, has lashed out at Disney CEO Bob Chapek for calling Shang-Chi an “experiment.” Liu posted on Twitter, “We are not an experiment. We are the underdog; the underestimated. We are the ceiling-breakers. We are the celebration of cultu...
Read MoreREVIEW: What If…? – Season 1, Episode 1 “What If… Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?”
After giving us a month to regain our sanity and gastrointestinal fortitude following the merciful end of Loki, Marvel has released its first animated series set in the MCU, What If…? Based on the comic series, What If…? takes us on a tour of the multiverse with Uatu the Watcher as our guide, sh...
Read MoreScarlett Johansson Sues Disney Like a Boss
It turns out Natasha Romanoff is a superhero in real life, too, albeit in service of her own interests. According to The Wall Street Journal, Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the way Black Widow was released. Disney made the long-awaited (long as in “since the character was alive and stuff�...
Read MoreREVIEW: 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...
Read MoreBlack 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 …...
Read MoreREVIEW: 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, …
