Tag: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Marvel’s Miniseries Mistakes and How to Fix Them
The TV miniseries is perhaps the most unsung of the motion picture formats. A sort of middle ground between the short-form movie and the much longer traditional television show – even ones that only last a single season – the miniseries is a potent tool for visual storytelling despite its margin...
Read MoreMy Breakup with Disney
BlabberingCollector | Feb 15, 2022 | 10
It’s sad when one grows up loving and adoring Disney and all its characters to being an adult and cheering when Disney does something incredibly stupid. But Disney has repeatedly insulted a large portion of their fan base, and it’s just too much to ignore. Buckle up because I have a lot to say. ...
Read MoreAnthony Mackie Will Star in Next Captain America Movie
Marvel fans better be ready for another lecture because Deadline exclusively reports that Anthony Mackie has signed on to play Sam Wilson again in the fourth Captain America movie. In the final moments of Avengers: Endgame, an elderly Steve Rogers passed his shield to Sam, indicating that he wanted ...
Read More“The Hero Gig”
Yesterday, JLongbone tweeted a video clip of Kari Skogland, who directed all six episodes of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, talking about what kind of hero they were trying to craft in Sam Wilson’s new version of Captain America. You can see the clip below (and JLongbone is worth a follow; her...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 6 “One World, One People”
“One World, One People” is, if nothing else, the blissful end to this tedious chore of a series. It’s as obnoxiously preachy as you’d expect after last week, but it’s worse because it revels in its effectively admitted ignorance. Parts of it are good, though, and those parts frustrate beca...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 5 “Truth”
The condescendingly titled “Truth” (which, since no big answers to anything are revealed, can only mean “We’re about to lay some truth on you”) is the episode where The Falcon and the Winter Soldier goes all-in on identity politics and makes Captain America all about race. People who want ...
Read More
