• Home  /
  • Posts tagged "Marvel Cinematic Universe"

Watch What You Want (We Need Junk Food Stories)

February 12, 20240

After a few years of relative quietude from the highbrows, becalmed by the pandemic’s rocky release schedule, the elitist film…

Read more

WandaVision: Grief on the Small Screen (RWT Podcast S8E5 + Bonus Episode!)

March 18, 20220

Don’t worry. Nothing is wrong here. We’re not stuck inside a hex, kept prisoner by a chaos witch who literally…

Read more

The Unavoidable Allure of Alternate Universes: Right Place, Right Time

August 28, 20210

Alternate universe stories give us a chance to see what the characters in the narratives we love are really made…

Read more

The Unavoidable Allure of Alternate Universes: Women in the Room

August 19, 20210

There’s a real seduction to multiverse stories. Seeing how all the same pieces rearrange themselves into a recognizable but different…

Read more

The MCU is Trying to Kill Reel World Theology

July 19, 20211

Marvel is trying to put Reel World Theology out of a job with phase four of their cinematic universe. In…

Read more

10 Things That Make Perfect Sense About The Captain America Trilogy If You Actually Watch It

February 4, 20210

In three movies over nearly seven hours, Captain America is showcased at length, and if you actually watch the movies…

Read more

Editorial: Martin Scorsese and the Marvel-Go-Round

October 30, 20190

Around the middle of the decade, Harper’s critic Charles E. Whittaker gave a scathing film review. Art is supposed to…

Read more

Beautiful and Necessary: The Empowerment of “That Scene” at the end of Avengers: Endgame

May 3, 20191

I am now four days out from my first and, so far, only viewing of Avengers: Endgame and I have…

Read more