12 posts tagged ‘carol danvers’
Captain Marvel Is the MCU's Gayest 'Not Gay' Superhero
Jezebel,
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...
It’s not Iman Vellani’s problem that The Marvels is a bomb
AV Club,
Marvel’s The Marvels is having a pretty lousy time at the box office, having already gotten the worst opening in MCU history and then a huge drop-off in its second week, but star Iman Vellani—who plays Ms. Marvel, a.k.a. Kamala Khan—isn’t phased by it. In fact, it sounds like she doesn’t particularly care about the… 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...
Iman Vellani Details Her X-Men Comics Writing Process
Gizmodo,
Finally, Iman Vellani can geek out publicly about going from Marvel fan to Ms. Marvel and The Marvels star to Marvel Comics writer. Read more...
Destin Daniel Cretton Departs Marvel's Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
With so many things in flux at Marvel Studios, there’s news that Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has departed the director’s chair of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. A move that leaves us speculating about the crossover film’s future, if anything. Read more...
What's right and what's wrong with Marvel today?
It’s not much of a surprise that The Marvels didn’t fare so well at the domestic box office in its first weekend. Sure, it came in at No. 1 with $47 million, but that’s the lowest opening of any film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Factor in the $41.4 million it made internationally, and that’s still less than $90… Read more...
11 Burning Questions We Have After The Marvels
The Marvels is here, and with it, a bunch of updates on just what is going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Earth, to space, and beyond. But while much of the team-up movie’s big beats are neatly wrapped up by its brisk end, there are plenty of questions we have left over... Read more...
All The Marvels Easter eggs and references explained
For better or worse, a certain level of fluency in the ever-expanding tapestry of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is required by The Marvels. While the film—which brings together Captain Marvel’s Carol Danvers (Brie Larson), WandaVision’s Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and Ms. Marvel’s Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani)—fills… Read more...