7 posts tagged ‘tom hiddleston’
The week in TV: The Crown weighs heavy, and The Curse comes to life
AV Club,
[Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers of the first episode of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.] Read more...
Tom Hiddleston, Scarlet Johansson are being wishy-washy about MCU future
Superhero fans know death doesn’t stick. It’s a genre that loves to revive dead characters or introduce alternate universe doppelgangers or just reveal that the death was actually a big hoax all along. Separately, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been on shaky ground lately, leading to rumors that Kevin Feige and co.… Read more...
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Finally Nails the Monsterverse Balance
Gizmodo,
It doesn’t have to be the case that a monster movie has great action and truly turgid human drama between the setpieces, but that’s largely been the case for Legendary’s Godzilla reboot, the “Monsterverse.” Sometimes the action being so fun can tip the odds against some truly stupid human beings—see King of the… 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...
Yeah, that's probably it for Loki
Although Marvel hasn’t said anything official yet, it’s sounding increasingly likely that the just-concluded second season of Disney+ TV series Loki will be its last. Both star Tom Hiddleston and series writer Eric Martin have given statements to press surrounding the show’s just-released second-season finale,… Read more...
The Marvel Cinematic Universe, ranked from worst to best
Conventional critical wisdom holds that the floor and the ceiling of the 15-year-strong Marvel Cinematic Universe are not so far apart—that in devising a recipe for success, the company has managed to avoid any outright disasters, even as its principle of quality-without-risk also more or less negates the possibility… Read more...
Loki season 2 finale: Loki ends, surprisingly perfectly
If Loki is about any one specific thing, underneath all the comedy, the time traveling, the ’shipping and quipping and fun, then it’s a show about systems. Systems of control, systems of “protection,” systems of self-propagating evil. Systems that “have to exist,” because, we’re told, they have to exist. Systems that… Read more...