The road to Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel has been a long, hard journey. Announced in August 2019, with the first footage in December 2020 (see below), a number of potential changes, and then a major one-year delay: Life hasn’t been easy for Kamala Khan fans. But thankfully today I can share a glimmer of light from the end of the tunnel.
Read MorePeter Parker is a character defined by his relationships. But at the end of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland’s Peter has been stripped of everything and everyone. “Who is Peter Parker in a vacuum?”* is the main question posed at the end of this movie. I am so excited to see the answer, even if I am a little nervous.
Read MoreSpider-Man: No Way Home is a great movie and I had a blast with it. But I also had some issues, which I talked about briefly in my spoiler review last week. One of the issues that really stuck with me was how few women are in the movie, and whether or not the filmmakers did justice to those characters. It rubs
Read MoreSpider-Man: No Way Home is great. It’s magical. It’s complicated. It’s messy. Don’t think about it. It’s amazing. You’re amazing. Help me with my back? I had a blast. I was screaming, I was gasping, I was pointing at the screen and shaking the person who came with me. It was so much fun. An unforgettable, surreal, magical experience. The last
Read MoreWhile working on my recent piece comparing X-Men ’97 to the original X-Men ’92 designs, there was one huge difference I couldn’t overlook: Charles Xavier was nowhere to be seen. And on a deeper look, Xavier’s voice actor Cedric Smith is the only living actor from the main cast of X-Men who is not returning for X-Men ’97 without comment. (The
Read MoreUPDATE (NOVEMBER 25, 2021): In a new interview with the Play Comics podcast, X-Men ’97 consultant Eric Lewald has clarified that “the show’s not going to come out for another 18-20 months, you know, mid-to-late 2023.” This gives us a sharper timeframe of when ’97 is being projected to release, which also matches a past Marvel pattern. 18 to 20 months
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