Another year, another hype cycle for some hopefully good superhero movies, but online discourse always needs to complain about something… Yes, we’ve finally had a good look at both James Gunn’s Superman and Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, marking the introduction of Marvel’s most iconic family to the MCU, and the Internet’s first reaction … Read more
When Disney announced Disney+ back in 2018, I was immediately excited. I loved Marvel, I loved Star Wars and I loved Disney’s original animations, whether that was from Walt Disney Animation Studio or Pixar. The horizons of these properties became so much bigger in my mind overnight. The Star Wars universe is vast, and what … Read more
I’ve been a fan of Marvel for a long time. I watched The Avengers in the cinema like seemingly everyone else in the world at the time, and felt that sense of wonder seeing these heroes together on screen for the first time. From that point I enjoyed almost every movie that followed in the … Read more
If you’re one of the millions of people tuning into The Last of Us every week, you probably know by now that it’s a great show. Packed with emotional and smartly written dialogue, exciting action scenes and gut wrenching drama, it’s easily one of the best video game adaptations ever, and some of the best … Read more
I’ll start off with a simple admission: Until now I’d never watched Friends. I was familiar with particular moments throughout the show’s run, from Ross’s slip up at the altar to “Emily” (Rachel), to Monica and Chandler and the Joey memes. When asked why I’d never watched the show, I’d remark that I wasn’t a nineties … Read more
WandaVision‘s first few episodes were onto something brilliant. Equal parts heart-warming and disturbing, we watched Wanda live out the life she deserves: loving, stable, idyllic. Many rejoiced in how the often formulaic Marvel Cinematic Universe was stretching its creative muscles. Far from the world-ending stakes of Avengers: Endgame, here, we were tuning in every week to … Read more