With its second episode, “Promises,” Secret Invasion gets even more intriguing, wrapping itself comfortably in the espionage tropes it introduced last week and introducing shades of gray for all the main characters. There’s a subtlety to this show that other Marvel productions don’t have, es...
Read MoreRemember when we used to expect Marvel movies to be good? It wasn’t all that long ago, but it feels like a lifetime since we entered a theater or, almost as often these days, started a new TV show without trepidation and with the anticipation of a fun story with characters we either knew we &helli...
Read MoreIf you’re having trouble getting into the Christmas Spirit, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special will jump-start the joy in your heart. James Gunn’s early Christmas present is exactly what it needed to be: a fun, heartwarming, hilarious, sentimental special that knows how to entertain and...
Read MoreIn a revelation that won’t surprise anyone who’s been watching their content lately, Marvel doesn’t want comic book fans writing its comic book movies. In an interview on the podcast The Town with Matthew Belloni, Nate Moore – executive of production and development for Marvel – revealed t...
Read MoreAnd, we’re back. While the pilot of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was as bad as we all assumed it would be, the second episode was a vast improvement, indicating the shift from girls-rule-boys-drool nonsense to an intelligent show that wants to explore some complicated moral questions through a relata...
Read MoreShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law, the next in the relentless stream of Marvel shows to hit Disney+, began its run today with “A Normal Amount of Rage.” Does it show signs of bucking the underwhelming trend with the MCU’s streaming ventures? No, it’s pretty much what you probably expected. While dri...
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