9 posts tagged ‘monica rambeau’
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...
The week in film: Thanksgiving's gory feast, and what's wrong with Marvel
AV Club,
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...
11 Burning Questions We Have After The Marvels
Gizmodo,
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...
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’ Mid-Credits Scene Will Leave You Feeling Blue
Vulture,
What’s behind that “X” logo seen in the trailer? (You know the answer.)
Hollywood’s not afraid of superheroes anymore, but it’s still afraid of real superhero stories
Before superhero movies were the only kind of movies, they almost always had a cute little gag where someone would acknowledge that something—typically something pulled straight from the comic book source material—was silly, whether it was by directly breaking the fourth wall or with a winky meta gag. That way the… Read more...