By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “first family” to the big screen, and is easily the most successful one yet, following previous versions in 2005 (Fantastic Four) and 2007 (The Rise of the Silver Surfer), with a failed reboot in 2015 (Fant4stic). This latest iteration, directed… Read More Movie Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado The Fantastic Four: First Steps is now just a month out from releasing in theatres, and Disney and Marvel have put out the final trailer for the film. This latest attempt to bring Marvel’s “First Family” to the big screen is starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn. This… Read More Final Trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps
By John Corrado Marvel’s Thunderbolts* (that asterisk is actually important) is the latest piece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and it breathes new life into the franchise by largely going back to basics. Despite being the 36th film in the MCU (not to mention all of the Disney Plus streaming series that have gone along… Read More Movie Review: Thunderbolts*
By John Corrado Disney has just released the new trailer for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps. This is the highly anticipated reboot that officially brings Marvel’s “First Family” into the fold of the MCU. And it looks fun. I’m mainly interested to see Marvel playing around in the Space Age 1960s. Pedro Pascal stars… Read More New Trailer for The Fantastic Four: Four Steps
By John Corrado Captain America: Brave New World is the fourth Captain America film, serving as the big screen debut of Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) donning the red, white and blue vibranium shield that got passed to him by Chris Evans’ now-retired version of the character. In that way, this 35th film in the Marvel… Read More Movie Review: Captain America: Brave New World
By John Corrado This morning, Disney unveiled the teaser trailer for The Fantastic Four: First Steps, officially bringing Marvel’s “First Family” into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This version stars Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing. They… Read More Teaser Trailer for Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Marvel Studios has just released the first poster and teaser trailer for Thunderbolts*, a new team-up film centred around Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh). The film finds Pugh’s sarcastic assassin working with Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia… Read More Teaser Trailer Released for Marvel’s Thunderbolts*
By John Corrado There is a lot riding on Deadpool & Wolverine, the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film not only serves as the third movie in the Deadpool franchise, but also officially brings the potty-mouthed Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) into the fold of the MCU, following Disney’s acquisition of studio 20th… Read More Movie Review: Deadpool & Wolverine
By John Corrado The first teaser trailer has been released for Captain America: Brave New World (alongside the first poster). The 2025 film serves as not only the fourth Captain America movie, but also a continuation of the Disney Plus series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which finds Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson officially taking… Read More Teaser Trailer Released for Captain America: Brave New World
By Jon Corrado ★½ (out of 4) The 33rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Marvels is both a sequel to 2019’s Captain Marvel and a continuation of the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, and it’s honestly kind of a mess. Directed by Nia DaCosta (the Candyman remake), this is the weakest film yet in a… Read More Review: The Marvels
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Writer-director James Gunn completes his gonzo space adventure trilogy with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, a fitting end to the saga that plays with the same colourful mix of action, humour, and heart that made the first two movies such standouts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And… Read More Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is the 31st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (the first in Phase Five), and I’d have to give a few others a rewatch to say for sure, but it might just be the weakest and most disappointing entry yet in the long-running… Read More Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Following in the footsteps of the Halloween special Werewolf by Night, Marvel Studios now switches their focus to Christmas with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. Written and directed by James Gunn, the special is designed as a loving homage to the infamous Star Wars Christmas Special,… Read More Disney+ Review: The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) How do you go about making a sequel to a blockbuster film when the star of said film has tragically and unexpectedly passed away? That’s the moral conundrum faced by director Ryan Coogler with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a follow up to his 2018 Marvel film that arrives… Read More Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Composer Michael Giacchino makes the switch to directing with the 52 minute Marvel Halloween special Werewolf by Night, a black-and-white tribute to the classic Universal monster movies that serves as a breath of fresh air in a slightly stagnant MCU. The special (which may as well begin with… Read More Disney+ Review: Werewolf by Night
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) I Am Groot, the latest Marvel series premiering on Disney Plus, isn’t really a series at all, but rather a collection of brief little shorts featuring Guardians of the Galaxy breakout star Baby Groot (voiced once again by Vin Diesel) going on a series of adventures between the… Read More Disney+ Review: I Am Groot
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Taika Waititi’s Thor: Love and Thunder, the latest puzzle piece in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, is the fourth solo film for Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, and it very much plays in the same vein as its direct predecessor, Thor: Ragnarok. Waititi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, builds… Read More Review: Thor: Love and Thunder
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