With Loki , What-If and ,most recently, Spider-Man: No Way Home, it is becoming apparent that the new phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is very invested in the concept of parallel universes, or the multiverse if you will. Introducing the idea of seeing our favourite marvel characters but not exactly as we know…
(Any story points mentioned in this review have already been shown in the trailers for No Way Home). No Way Home is the culmination of the Tom Holland trilogy and picks up right where Far From Home left off. With Peter Parker (Tom Holland) dealing with the consequences of his secret being revealed to the…
Despite being one of the smaller scale movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Spider-Man: Homecoming was a great vehicle for Tom Holland‘s take on the wall-crawler. Properly introducing us to the high-school hero and his amazing friends as he tackled the tough act of balancing the troubles of a teenager along with the perils…
James Cameron has been trying to bring Alita to the silver screen for years. As far back as the year 2000, he had registered the domain name battleangelalita.com, with the intention of directing a film in the world based on the Japanese manga (comic). Alas, his schedule was too full to let this project come…
The butt of many a joke throughout DC’s history, Aquaman has been a superhero that has been a bit hard to take seriously. Bedecked in bright orange and green while using a seahorse as a mode of transport, this was a character that was hard to imagine working well in the era of modern comic…
Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman, working off a screenplay by Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman, Into the Spider-Verse follows Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), a young teenager who suddenly finds himself with spider-like abilities and needs someone to turn to, to help him master his new-found powers while trying to avoid the…
Ever since the end of the first Avengers movie, Thanos has been positioned as a looming threat in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As new Marvel movies came out, the glimpses of the enigma grew, the build-up was such that Thanos’ eventual appearance in Infinity War had a huge hill to climb to live up to…
Black Panther has hit our screens with it claws fully out, a masterful piece of entertainment by director Ryan Coogler, leading a talented ensemble of actors. The film has all the trappings of what we have come to expect from a Marvel movie, action mixed with healthy dose of fun, even if the jokes in the…
2013 re-introduced the world to the Man of Steel. The story of the Last Son of Krypton, directed by Zack Snyder, was met with a decent reception and looked to be a promising start to DC’s answer to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However one by one, the films that followed were greeted with a tepid…
The God of Thunder (Chris Hemsworth) is back in a new adventure and this time he’s brought his sense of humour along. Thor: Ragnarok finds the Asgardian (or the strongest Avenger as he likes calling himself) in a spot of bother as he tries to stop Hela (Cate Blanchett), the Goddess of Death, from destroying…
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