6 posts tagged ‘tony stark’
Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is now the dark beating heart of Marvel’s TV shows
Marvel Studios released Jeremy Renner and Hailee Steinfeld’s Hawkeye in November 2021 as a little holiday treat for superhero fans, but the real joy was the way the show gradually teased the return of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk—with D’Onofrio reprising his role from Netflix’s Daredevil show, where he was one of… Read more...
Robert Downey Jr. Wishes His MCU Work Got More Real Recognition
The MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. Read more...
Ultimate Spider-Man's Relaunch Heralds a New Age of Heroes
When the Ultimate Marvel line launched 24 years ago, it wanted to bring Marvel’s heroes back to their roots, a modern world for modern titans to shape. In the last two and a half decades it lived, thrived, died, and was quietly reborn—but only now is Marvel taking the reigns on what shaping that rebirth should be, in… Read more...
Tom Holland has so much respect for Robert Downey Jr. that he actually saw Dolittle
The SAG-AFTRA strike is over, meaning actors are now free to go back and promote the things they made that came out during the strike, and The Hollywood Reporter is taking advantage of that by having Tom Holland sit down for a chat about Apple TV+’s The Crowded Room—a story inspired by the 1981 non-fiction book The… 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 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...