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-8 posts tagged "Avengers"
John Clark | Tuesday, February 1, 2022
“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is the latest entry in the cinematic oeuvre of Hollywood powerhouse Marvel Studios. It is awesome! In “No Way Home,” Peter Parker squares up with the most intimidating villain he’s faced yet: college admissions. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s embrace of the multiverse was always inevitable, but it is still the coolest
Sophia Michetti | Monday, August 30, 2021
After missing the original release date in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Marvel fans anxiously awaited the release of “Black Widow” on big and small screens alike with the theatrical and Disney+ Premier Access releases on July 9, 2021. Boy oh boy, it was glorious. Starring Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanov (aka. Black
Aidan O'Malley | Friday, May 21, 2021
Every year, Scene honors the graduating class with a snapshot of the most critical cultural moments of their four years in the tri-campus community. That includes pop culture, campus culture and American culture at large. Won’t you take a walk down memory lane? Fall 2017 — Male consequence and the #MeToo movement The fall of
Dillon Begley | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
When it comes to Marvel and its Cinematic Universe (MCU), we as an audience are always told to expect the unexpected. However, all 23 films released thus far share many things in common. They all follow a similar story arc, are known to be magnificent CGI set pieces and are all presented as two or
Allison Thornton | Wednesday, March 3, 2021
I don’t think I am the only person to say that special effects in movies have gotten insanely good in the past decade. Over the weekend, my friends and I watched Marvel’s “Age of Ultron” and quickly realized that the animation or CGI in that movie just wasn’t that good. The Avengers looked like they
Ryan Israel and Mike Donovan | Friday, May 15, 2020
It’s time to turn the clock back to what, in retrospect, seems like a simpler time: late summer 2016. The class of 2020 first arrived on campus via an “Ultralight Beam,” looking forward to four years of academic and faith “Formation” and dreaming of staying up “All Night” with friends. Not yet “Destroyed by Hippie Powers,”
Willoughby Thom, Ryan Israel, Mike Donovan, Charlie Kenney, Dessi Gomez and Gina Twardosz | Monday, December 9, 2019
Scene on the Screen: looking into the best, the worst and the weirdest filmmaking, on both the big and small screens, from 2019. Cinema? Who is she? By Mike Donovan, Scene Editor Robert Downey Jr.’s “Avengers: Endgame” martyrdom tried quite diligently to signal “‘the end of an era,’ punctuating a sprawling filmic enterprise” with the
Jim Moster | Monday, April 29, 2019
The accomplishments of Marvel Studios rival those of its own heroes. Through the 20 films that followed “Iron Man” in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe single-handedly defined the superhero genre and earned the reverence of a burgeoning fan base. Audiences of all ages have reveled in a franchise that continues to innovate with its origin stories