Warning: Vague spoilers for “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Civil War” follow. I know sometimes it feels like you need a flow chart to keep the deceptively interconnected Marvel movies straight, but now that we’re coming to the final bow for several of the actors whose contracts are nearing completion, the end game is finally taking […]
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Something Fishy This Way Comes
There’s not much heart in this sea
There is quite a bit to like with Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, but there is also a plethora of things that lie there, flopping like a fish on the deck of a boat. Sorry about that. No more fish puns. Maybe. First off, the film has a strange framing device that […]
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Gods and Monsters
Thor is back—and more importantly, so is Loki
The populace has been indoctrinated. Now that Marvel and its corporate overlords at Disney can safely assume that every sentient creature on Earth is familiar with each of the Avengers, here’s Thor: The Dark World, coming just five months after Iron Man 3. Even if there are any pop cultural holdouts—no doubt they’re cold and […]