Chris Hemsworth‘s Thor finds himself facing a showdown with a galactic killer hell-bent on destroying the gods in the trailer for the newest Marvel movie, Thor: Love and Thunder. Written and directed by Academy Award-winner Taika Waititi, the movie promises “a harrowing cosmic adventure,” according to a Marvel release, with …
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When we last left Peter Parker, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, he’d just watched footage of his battle in London with Quentin Beck, a.k.a. the charlatan savior Mysterio, being broadcast throughout the greater Manhattan area. Then J. Jonah Jameson, a man who never met a webslinger he didn’t want to string …
Read More »The Wanderlust of Chloé Zhao
The clouds have parted over Ojai, California, on November 7th, and Chloe Zhao can’t stop smiling. She’d planned to spend the dismal Saturday hunkered down inside, in postproduction on Marvel’s Eternals, due out later this year. But when the sun broke through, right after the news that Joe Biden had …
Read More »Best Movies to See In Dec.: 'Aquaman,' 'Spider-Man,' 'Mary Poppins Returns'
What a year it’s been: Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman, First Reformed and First Man, Gotti and … well, Gotti. And now we finish 2018 nice ‘n’ strong this month with a last gasp of award contenders (Natalie Portman goes pop; Christian Bale bulks up; Steve Carell plays with dolls) and …
Read More »Stan Lee, Creator of Marvel Universe, Dead at 95
Stan Lee, the writer, editor, and former publisher and president of Marvel Comics who co-invented Spider-Man and was responsible for turning superhero comic books into a phenomenon, died Monday at the age of 95. Lee was taken to Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai Medical Center on Monday after suffering a medical …
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