11 posts tagged ‘brie larson’
Captain Marvel Is the MCU's Gayest 'Not Gay' Superhero
Throughout its existence, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has showcased few middling, explicit attempts at LGBTQ representation. Ranging from Gay Joe Russo in Avengers: Endgame to Korg’s husband (who was essentially just Korg with a mustache) in Thor: Love and Thunder, a surface glance at the MCU reveals a lackluster… Read more...
The week in TV: The Crown weighs heavy, and The Curse comes to life
[Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers of the first episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.] Read more...
The week in film: Thanksgiving's gory feast, and what's wrong with Marvel
Horror fans have been waiting more than a decade for Thanksgiving, director Eli Roth’s holiday slasher about a killer in a pilgrim mask terrorizing a small Massachusetts town. Ever since Roth’s fake trailer for the film showed up in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse, we’ve been wondering what the… Read more...
6 things you have to watch on TV this weekend
Welcome to the weekend edition of What’s On. Here are the big things happening on TV from Friday, Nov 17 to Sunday, Nov 19. All times are Eastern. [Note: The weekly What’s On publishes on Sundays.] Read more...
Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters review: A surprisingly good Godzilla series
In movies where there are big, cool things (dinosaurs, Transformers, etc.) and also regular little humans, it’s safe to assume that the humans will always, always, always be less interesting than a big, cool thing. That’s not to say that any movie with a dinosaur is better than any movie without one, but if a movie… Read more...
The Marvels is headed for one of the MCU's all-time worst box office openings
Whatever your feelings about the current creative state of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s hard to deny that the franchise’s financial issues are becoming more obvious by the week. That’s come into especially tight focus this week, with the release of Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels, which just posted the second-worst… Read more...
The Marvels raises the question: How many times is Marvel going to tease us with [REDACTED]?
[This story contains big, massive, obvious spoilers for The Marvels. You’ve been warned!] Read more...
The Marvels’ Final Scene Shows Us the Avengers’ Future
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