Tag: Marvel

While Shang-Chi oftentimes feels more like a soulless mimic of Hong Kong cinema, the culture mix results in something distinctive.

A routine espionage thriller reveals its theme too late, leaving Black Widow without much purpose in the wider Marvel story arc, even if the action is impressive in spots.

Infamous, messy, and tonally bizarre, Howard the Duck's greatest lesson is in treating the source material with respect.

Unusually bland and hollow in its first half, Black Widow finds substance by the end but by then, it's already lost its way and purpose.

Boh Bringing a story of self-doubt and identity to Marvel’s storyline, the second stand-alone Spider-Man has a lot of fun (too much arguably) selling action in droves, with the …

Ironing Out the Future Iron Man released in May of 2008. Lehman Brothers collapsed in September of that year. Lucky then for Marvel (and then Paramount), whose story of …

Assembled Over the past decade, Marvel brought audiences toward this melee, beginning in Iron Man’s militaristic fantasy before turning into a wild, uncontrolled spectacle of comic book fiction. Avengers: …

Hulking Mad Control. Everything in the Ang Lee-directed Hulk concerns control. Emotional control. Government control. A parent’s control. Memory control. It’s an interesting take on the comic book hero, …

Tingles If the Marvel movie-verse is considered a single entity – one 50+ hour movie – then Spider-Man: Far From Home is effectively the post-credit sequence. It’s a little …

Almost a Marvel Unfortunately designed as a plot gap filler before the main events of Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel entertains in the way all Marvel films too. It’s funny …

Stark’s Arc The hero of the Marvel universe isn’t Tony Stark. Captain America couldn’t save us all either. Marvel’s movies – some 52 hours of storytelling – belong to …

Look out! Here comes a reference disc On the surface, Into the Spider-Verse is that typical comic book movie. Super villain Wilson Fisk creates a doomsday device, Spider-Man finds …