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Andy Ottone | Thursday, September 7, 2023
“My Adventures with Superman” is a refreshing take on the beloved hero, but it isn’t quite obvious why at first. We’ve had stories about Superman as a young adult and we’ve seen him learn about his origins countless times. So what makes MAWS different? Is it the fact that it’s animated, or the serialized storytelling
Andy Ottone | Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Before the release of Marvel’s “Iron Man” in 2008, if you asked someone on the street to name a superhero, you weren’t likely to hear much beyond Spider-Man, Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman. If you were to ask that same question now, there are dozens of heroes that the casual fan would know as a
JP Spoonmore | Thursday, February 24, 2022
With DC’s “Extended Universe” (DCEU) dueling against Zach Snyder fans and comic-book accuracy, director James Gunn seems to be a lucrative gift that keeps on giving. His retcon-reboot/sequel of “Suicide Squad” — titled as “The Suicide Squad” to really highlight it as a replacement rather than a follow-up — was a huge success on HBO
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
Nicole Bilyak | Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Marvel Studios has been hitting it out of the park lately with successful movie after successful movie. In 2018, Ruben Fleischer directed “Venom,” a film based in the “Spider-Man” universe. The film, despite making more $800 million in the box office, garnered negative reviews. Three years later, famous actor Andy Serkis took the director’s chair
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
Sophia Michetti | Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Warning: “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” spoilers ahead! Looking back to six weeks ago when I started watching “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” I was a bit hesitant to say the show would be one of Marvel’s finest. I asked myself, “How could Marvel outdo the masterful sitcom gold that was ‘WandaVision?’” “Am
Aidan O'Malley | Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Last Friday, movie theaters opened their doors for the first time in what felt like forever. All across the country — or rather, across certain parts of it — you could have seen “Unhinged,” a road rage B-movie starring Russell Crowe. You could have, but evidently you did not. Netflix is counting on your caution.
Hayden Adams | Wednesday, February 20, 2019
In honor of the 91st-annual Academy Awards, I have decided to use my first column to let my inner superhero nerd run wild. This column will be the award ceremony for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MCU — dubbed the Lee Awards in honor of Marvel founder Stan Lee. I am restricting this exclusively to
Matthew Macke | Tuesday, February 16, 2016
There were a lot of places “Deadpool” could have gone wrong. A movie as self-aware as this one, whose titular character knows he’s a work of fiction, requires a delicate balancing act. Lean too far to one side and the movie lacks substance, lean too far to the other and it’s uncomfortably ignorant. “Deadpool” could