With Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Marvel Studios delivers one of its most creative movies yet. Doctor Strange always lent itself to impressive imagery but this is a film which manages to bring the mind-bending and reality warping … Continue reading Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness (2022) Review
I’ve been a comic book fan for as long as I can remember and Spider-Man No Way Home is as close to reading those comic books as you can get. Not because of the great realisation of Spider-Man on-screen but … Continue reading Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) Review
Once you have gotten past the origin story, established a character true to the comic books and pleased the die-hard fans with your initial interpretation of the character, you can let loose with your superhero movie sequel. That is exactly … Continue reading Spider-Man 2 (2004) Review
Before all of Marvel’s movies were linked and part of some huge master-plan, before every superhero movie felt like an “event” and before there were at least 3 comic book movies a year, Sam Raimi delivered the perfect Spider-Man. Superhero … Continue reading Spider-Man (2002) Review
You can’t fault Marvel for changing the scope and ambition of their stories. Not content with stories which span galaxies and time, we now we have immortal creatures who are tied to the creation of the universe itself, including a … Continue reading Eternals (2021) Review
At a time when people are making the argument that there too many superhero movies, Venom 2 does very little to prove them wrong. We are still in the “Golden Age” of the superhero movie but with there being so … Continue reading Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Review
It’s difficult to remember a time when a movie based on a Marvel comic wasn’t a guaranteed success but that was the prospect facing vampire action movie Blade. Comic book movies were not the sure thing they have become today … Continue reading Blade (1998) Review
Shang-Chi had its work cut out for it as a Marvel Movie. While Black Widow ended the stories and strands left by Avengers: Endgame (while introducing some potential new characters) Shang-Chi is the first of Marvel’s new “phase” and setting … Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Review
From the very outset of Black Widow, it is clear that Marvel wants to go somewhere a little darker with this movie. After a blistering and very well-staged action opener, which sets-up some of the future players very well, we … Continue reading Black Widow (2021) Review
It would be easy to look back at the ten years and over 20 films that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe and see it as a complete success but Thor: The Dark World is an example of a miss … Continue reading Thor: The Dark World (2013) Review
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