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WARNING!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! Plot: Several years after the events of Deadpool 2, Wade Wilson’s (Ryan Reynolds) life is at a nadir. He’s given up being the Merc with Mouth, he’s no longer engaged to Vanessa (Morena Baccarin), and stuck in a dead end job as a used car salesman. When Wade is kidnapped by the Time Variance Authority and the mysterious Mr. Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen), he sets out on an…
Director: Nia DaCosta Cast: Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, Zawe Ashton, Gary Lewis, Park Seo-joon, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Saagar Shaikh, Samuel L. Jackson Plot: When the actions of Kree warrior leader Dar-Benn entangle the powers of Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel and Monica Rambeau. This brings the three super-powered women together to face this new threat. Review: We are, of…
Director: James Gunn Cast: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Butista, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Vin Diesel, Pom Klementieff, Will Poulter, Maria Bakalova, Chukwudi Iwuji, Daniela Melchoir, Elizabeth Debicki Plot: The Guardians of the Galaxy have established a new settlement in Knowhere, where Star-Lord is miserable after losing Gamora. They are attacked a powerful new foe – Adam…
Director: Pyton Reed Cast: Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, David Dastmalchian, Katy O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, Bill Murray, Michelle Pfiffer, Corey Stoll, Michael Douglas Plot: Scott, Hope, Hank and Janet, along with an older delinquent activist Cassie, get trapped in the surprisingly populated Quantum Realm and have to face down a powerful tyrant known as…
Movie Review: ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Director: Ryan Coogler Cast: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominque Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Plot: Following the death of King T’Challa of Wakanda, Princess Shuri undergoes a long period of grief and introspection whilst the wolves gather at the nations door. Tensions escalate with the…
TV Review: ‘Werewolf by Night’
In adapting its comic book source material over the years the bread-and-butter of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has understandably been the superheroes with occasional forays into the cosmic side of things. However, with the recent Moon Knight series and the upcoming Blade reboot, the MCU is slowly but surely delving into the horror elements of the Marvel Universe. This is a genre that boomed for…
Movie Review: ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’
Director: Taika Waititi Cast: Chris Hemseworth, Natalie Portman, Tess Thompson, Christian Bale, Taika Waititi, Russel Crowe Plot: Feeling as though he’s without purpose, Thunder God Thor reunites with ex-girlfriend Dr. Jane Foster and is surprised to find her wielding his powers. Together with Korg and Valkyrie, they are challenged by a being known as ‘The God Butcher’. Review: One of the most…
X-Men Teams The MCU Should Introduce
The X-Men are one of the biggest groups of characters in comic history, challenging the Avengers for the numbers of characters who have been affiliated with the X Brand. Most media adaptations of the comics focus on the core team, that being Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Jean, Professor X and so forth. Sitting on the sideline is a small army of weird and fun characters that the MCU could easily…
MCU Villains Who Could Appear in Thunderbolts
The Thunderbolts are a team of Marvel villains who banded together following the disappearance of most Avengers and superheroes to take up the role of heroes. This was a follow on to the ‘Onslaught’ story event – which we’re not even going to try and explain – and eventually turned out to be evil. I mean…obviously. They were later headed up by Hawkeye, leading to much speculation about their…
Characters We Want to See in ‘Multiverse of Madness’
Unlike Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel and Disney are being unusually candid with Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness being packed with cameo appearances. Now that they’ve seen the success such a concept brings them in box office numbers there’s no reason not to lean into it. The first full trailer strongly suggests that Patrick Stewart (confirmed in an ‘undisclosed role’) is reprising…
The Wrong Lesson Marvel Might Take From Spider-Man: No Way Home
Spider-Man: No Way Home opened late in 2021, and still more than doubled the box office of the previous champion, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. In a year with limited opportunity to visit the local multiplex, this latest Spider-Man solo entry into the MCU franchise still ranks second only to Avengers: Endgame in opening weekend take. People were excited to see the rumoured…
Movie Review: ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
NO SPOILERS UNTIL THE WILLEM DAFOE MEME Director: Jon Watts Cast: Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zendaya, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei, Alfred Molina, Willem Dafoe, Jamie Foxx, Thomas Haden Church, Rhys Ifans, J.K. Simmons Plot: Peter Parker’s life is thrown into a spiral when his identity as Spider-Man is made public, and he’s accused of murdering Mysterio. In an attempt to…
Movie Review: ‘Eternals’
Director: Chloé Zhao Cast: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjianai, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Koeghan, Don Lee, Harish Patel, Kit Harrington, Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Bill Skarsgård, David Kaye Plot: A band of un-ageing super-powered beings have been living among humans since the beginning of civilisation. Having gone their seperate ways, the reappearance of…
MCU Villains Who Are Cranky Versions of the Hero
The MCU scripting department really has only one mode when it comes to origin stories, as quite often the villains represent a potential dark path our champion could have followed. This is often the very literal case in the early MCU. And here they are. IRON MONGER – WHIPLASH – JUSTIN HAMMER – ALDRICH KILLIAN Tony Stark has almost enough evil versions of himself – all inventors and weapons…
The Top 10 Scariest MCU Moments
The MCU is hardly known for its moments of dread or horror…but I’m feeling lazy so here’s a quick list. Happy Spoopy Season! DISMEMBERMENT IN THE LIBRARY Kaecilius is not the most talked about part of the MCU’s line-up of villains, being an evil version of Doctor Strange with a basic motivation. Maybe that’s why we’re newly surprised at how dark his first scene is. The theft of a magical text…
The Weird Way Disneyworld Exists in the MCU
Does Disneyworld exist in the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Does it matter? Ok, no. But the interesting part of this story isn’t in the idea that Disneyworld exists in the MCU, but the weird way that it does exist in the MCU. To add an extra layer to the whole thing, Disneyworld only exists in the MCU in the world of Disneyworld. Yeah. This was to be expected, given the highly…
The IRL MCU Multiverse
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been fairly consistent in terms of quality. Television has been…less consistent…but really knocked it out of the park with Loki. That show has set a path for the coming years in the blockbuster franchise with the multiverse concept being introduced. There’s a few different directions this franchise could have taken if these films and TV shows hadn’t been…
