There is something very appealing in the gee-whiz earnestness and plucky patriotism of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), a red, white and blue superhero journey wrapped up in the nostalgia of the World War II era, where American pluck and moral certainty made the battle. As the title hints, it is something of a […]
Doctor Strange (2016), the Sorcerer Supreme of Marvel Comics, is the latest comic book hero to join Marvel’s cinematic universe and Benedict Cumberbatch (in his best impression of American arrogance) plays the broken neurosurgeon who dons the Cloak of Levitation and the Eye of Agamotto to bring magic to the MCU. He’s Stephen Strange, a […]
Netflix dropped its first full-length trailer for The Defenders, the superhero team series that will unite Daredevil (Charlie Cox), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), and Iron Fist (Finn Jones), the four grounded New York heroes of the Netflix MCU. This is the first real footage of the heroes interacting and in action […]
The buzz—for better and for worse—for the week in streaming debuts is over Iron Fist, the fourth original series in the Netflix Marvel superhero universe and the first to face disappointing reviews. Finn Jones stars as Danny Rand, the an American-born scion of a corporate billionaire who returns home after surviving a plane crash in […]
The first full trailer for Iron Fist, the fourth Marvel Comics series in the Netflix Defenders Initiative, dropped today. Finn Jones plays Danny Rand, survivor of an “accident” that killed his father, a powerful corporate player, and mother, who returns to reclaim his birthright after ten years in the East studying the secrets of martial […]
Jessica Jones, the second series in the Netflix ‘Defenders’ universe of Marvel Comics characters, is still a couple of months away but the first trailer is now out. Krysten Ritter plays Jessica Jones, one of the lesser-known characters to the general public but a major player in the comic books since 2001, a person with one […]
If you are a fan of a certain strain of popular entertainment, the big news this week is the launch of Daredevil (or, as it’s been branded across the web, Marvel’s Daredevil), the first of five announced Netflix original shows based on Marvel Comics titles. Daredevil is the costumed alter ego of Matt Murdoch, a […]
