The Warped Shelf: The Mandalorian/The Rise of Skywalker
“In what may be the last Star Wars thing we talk about for a while, we have a detailed discussion about The Mandalorian’s first season and the end of the sequel trilogy.”
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The Warped Shelf: Revisionist Star Wars
“This week, in light of a certain film series making it’s return to cinemas, we talk about changes made to the various Star Wars home releases.”
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Captain America: Civil War
Despite the massive roster of characters appearing in this film it is still ultimately Captain America’s story. Using the frame work of The Sokovia Accords and his relationship with Bucky/The Winter Soldier, Cap finds himself having to choose between doing what’s right and what’s legal as well as protecting a friend, even if the person he is protecting them from is also a friend. In typical Cap fashion he of course refuses the path of least resistance. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Ant-Man
How preposterous was it that Marvel was making an Ant-Man movie? Even after massive successes like Guardians of the Galaxy Ant-Man seemed so goofy that Marvel even leaned into it in their marketing of the film. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Here’s the thing though about middle chapters, and Avengers: Age of Ultron should absolutely be thought of as the middle chapter, it’s hard to properly judge it until you have seen where it was going. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Guardians of the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy seemed like the moment when Marvel finally went overboard. More than a couple assumed this would be the studio’s first real flop and maybe even signal the end of the super hero fad. About that. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a political spy thriller with super heroes. In hindsight it seems like an obvious choice but many questioned if Marvel could even do anything interesting with Captain America in a solo film post WWII. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Thor: The Dark World
Watching Thor: The Dark world two things immediately sprung to mind. The first is that the film looks great. The second thing is that it is much funnier than you remember […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: Iron Man 3
Let’s just get it out of the way. Iron Man 3 gets a lot of crap it doesn’t deserve. Being the first film to follow The Avengers it was always doomed to comparison. Comparison it never could win. […]
Read moreCountdown to Avengers Endgame: The Avengers
The Avengers was a massive event at the time. Even people who had only shown a little interest in the Marvel films up to this point lined up to see The Avengers assemble for the first time on film. […]
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