Spy Games
*Author’s Note: Like my article on Captain America, this piece was written before I saw Avengers: Age of Ultron and I decided not to alter it to accommodate that film.* Starting with Iron Man back in 2008, Marvel decided to bring the world of comic books to movie screens in a way no one had […]
Marvel Wants Deadpool & Wolverine’s Shawn Levy to Direct Avengers 5
Marvel may finally be looking to one of its (probable) successes as a springboard to its next Avengers film. Deadline reports that the studio wants Shawn Levy, director of the upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine, to helm the movie previously titled Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. According to Deadline’s sources, Marvel has given Levy a copy of the current script, […]
More Trouble for Blade
You’re going to find this hard to believe, but it looks like Marvel’s Blade reboot is in trouble. The first hints of this came five days ago, when scooper Daniel Richtman claimed that Michael Green, the sixth writer to take a crack at the film’s script (and the writer of Logan, Alien: Covenant, Green Lantern, and […]
America Loves Boobs: A Sydney Sweeney Story
Yes, it’s an attention-grabbing title, but should we pretend it’s not true? Of course not; that would make us Hollywood. Well, sort of, but I’ll get to that. First, let’s talk about Sydney Sweeney. (I’ll assume I don’t have to cajole you.) She is most assuredly having a moment right now, where America and the […]
Denis Villeneuve Thinks Movies Talk too Much
Great filmmakers generate conversation about film, and Denis Villeneuve is doing that even outside of his movies. The director, whose Dune: Chapter Two opens this week, spoke to the UK newspaper The Times about his new film and said that he doesn’t like dialogue and that it is a detriment to films. Well, kind of; he said […]
Iman Vellani and Fixing the MCU
Iman Vellani is learning from her peers’ mistakes; she’s been handling the failure of her new film The Marvels well, refraining from blaming fans and, now, addressing some of the issues that are turning people off of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In an exclusive interview with The Direct, Vellani was asked how Marvel could recapture the […]