The three reasons that I am excited about the movie Deadpool are: 1. "Practice makes perfect." It's been tough schlepping for Ryan Reynolds in the superhero movie business. In 2004, he co-starred as the wisecracking, vampire-slayer Hannibal King in the highly-disappointing Blade Trinity, which signaled the end of the highly-successful Blade movie franchise for now at … [Read more...]
Wild Speculation on Marvel’s Phase 3 Updates
Earlier this year, Marvel announced a sweeping plan for their "Phase 3" releases that included nine films over four years. The plan was met with enthusiasm from comic book fans--it's nice to know that studios are confident enough in a genre/storyline to think that far ahead. It's also nice to know that Marvel has a plan. The MCU amended their roadmap expanding it even more. … [Read more...]
Random Superhero, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Musings
Over the past few months, I’ve sat down to write a dozen or so articles about superhero, sci-fi or movie stuff—however, each time, I’ve walked away deciding that it wasn’t quite enough for a full post. So instead, here are a bunch of thoughts, opinions and observations that I want to get off my chest: Jessica Jones was awesome. I feel really smart for hyping it before it … [Read more...]
Why You Should Watch Netflix’s Jessica Jones
Netflix recently announced that their next Marvel series, Jessica Jones, will debut on November 20th. Now, I’m pretty sure a lot of people are thinking “Who is Jessica Jones and why should I care?” It was only a few months ago, we were wondering if Netflix’s first Marvel foray (Daredevil) could be any good. And given that the last time anyone had seen him on-screen, he was … [Read more...]
Ant-Man Review: A Spoiler-Full Recap
After (finally!) seeing Ant-Man over the weekend, I wanted to share some of my spoiler-filled thoughts about Marvel’s Biggest Little film to-date in my official Ant-Man review. Going in, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. Not because I wasn’t familiar with the character, the reviews or the film’s long pre-production history (more on that in a bit), but because there … [Read more...]