Tag: Captain America

  • New Avengers: Endgame Trailer Arrives

    New Avengers: Endgame Trailer Arrives

    Now that Captain Marvel has had its opening weekend, Marvel and Disney’s attention turns to Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and today they released the second Avengers: Endgame trailer. The ad campaign for Phase 3’s big finale has been very minimalist; no shots of massive battles, no wild special effects, not even a glimpse of Thanos (which…

  • Avengers: Endgame Trailer and Poster Finally Released

    Avengers: Endgame Trailer and Poster Finally Released

    After months of teases and rumors, false starts and vague assurances, Marvel Studios has finally released the title, poster and trailer for what we can now accurately call Avengers: Endgame. It feels a little ridiculous to say it’s been a long wait – Avengers: Infinity War only came out earlier this year, and we’ve had…

  • The Nutcracker and the Problem with the Disney Brand

    When I first saw the trailers for The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, I was excited. It looked like a brand new fantasy world for fans to sink their teeth into, though my enthusiasm was tempered a bit by this world having a veneer of “sameness” resembling other Disney features like Alice in Wonderland. Still, I wasn’t…

  • REVIEW: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

    ***SPOILER FREE*** 10 years and 18 movies later, Marvel Studios has done what no other movie franchise in history has been able to pull off successfully: a series of films with a disparate group of characters, continuously linked together through different stories, each film leading to one gigantic event. To comic book fans, this way…

  • Living Without a War

    Living Without a War

    Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will conclude with Avengers: Infinity War (or begin to conclude, anyway; the true finale will be whatever Infinity War’s sequel/second half is called, but I sincerely doubt Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will be done tangling with Thanos by then), but it began with a different, more intimate war. Captain…

  • Champions of the People

    Champions of the People

    As politics grow more and more prevalent in Hollywood’s output, segments of the audience are feeling increasingly alienated from mainstream entertainment (as dwindling movie ticket sales and the sub-basement-level ratings for the Oscars can attest – as well as the huge numbers for a show that strives to be more even-handed). While other factors are…