
Film — Avengers: Endgame
Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe concludes (well, more or less) with the fittingly titled Avengers: Endgame (2019).…
May 6, 2019Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe concludes (well, more or less) with the fittingly titled Avengers: Endgame (2019).…
May 6, 2019Relentlessly formulaic structure has long been an Achilles heel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it builds to profound…
May 9, 2018Boasting the same creative team as its outstanding predecessor, Captain America: Civil War (2016) once again centers on a perfectly…
May 11, 2016Say what you will about the Marvel Cinematic Universe—formulaic hitmaker, nostalgic button-pusher, miraculous blockbuster franchise—I still love it, even…
May 4, 2015The next phase of the Avengers sequence is underway with Iron Man 3 (2013), for my money the best…
May 7, 2013While I enjoyed the run-up of Marvel solo movies, for me the characters involved — especially Captain America, Iron…
May 7, 2012When I collected comics back in the 1980s, I was a huge Avengers fan, so I’ve been following the…
May 8, 2011I finally got back to the Arclight this weekend for Iron Man 2 (2010), my first theater movie in…
June 1, 2010Ah yes, this is the kind of movie that Netflix was made for. We put this on in the…
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