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. […]
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It can be easy to forget how big of a swing Iron man 2 really was for audiences. It really deserves credit though for being the first true MCU film and the first time that it truly felt like these characters inhabited the same universe.
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Let’s get something out of the way. I really like Carol Danvers as a character. Growing up, my anchor to the Marvel comics universe as a whole was mostly X-Men, and her involvement with that branch of the mythos is what introduced me to her. Like a lot of people, I had little-to-no interest in Mar-Vell, but Carol always had […]
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Rather than a great moment, I wanted to look at an incredible moment in cinema. That’s why I decided to focus on a sequence that is great not because it provides some deep insight into the themes of the film, or serves as a sort of complete story that stands on its own (though I would argue that it does […]
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Over the last decade and change, movie goers have been overwhelmed by a deluge of superhero movies. Most of them have been good to great, while others are best forgotten altogether. At any rate, it’s a good time to be a comic book fan who also happens to love movies. While Bryan Singer’s seminal X-Men flick is usually considered to […]
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