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Deadpool & Wolverine: Marvel Actioner Brings Wolvie Home

Deadpool & Wolverine: Marvel Actioner Brings Wolvie Home

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 24, 2024Deadpool & Wolverine, Disney, Shawn Levy, Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Superheroes, Action, Adventure, Marvel Cinematic UniverseComment

What If...? S2: Stan Lee’s Legacy of Dreams and Visions Realized for a Second Time

What If...? S2: Stan Lee’s Legacy of Dreams and Visions Realized for a Second Time

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 22, 2023What If...?, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Animation, Bryan Andrews, Hayley Atwell, Chris Hemsworth, Lady Bell, Karen Gillen, Jeffrey Wright, Jon Favreau, Kurt Russell, Jeff Goldblum, Michael Douglas, Disney+, Season 2Comment

Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania: Into the Quantifiable Realm

Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania: Into the Quantifiable Realm

By John Kirk

ReviewJim SlotekFebruary 15, 2023Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Stan Lee, Superheroes, Ant-Man, Peyton Reed, Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Kathryn Newton, Bill Murray, William Jackson, Katy O’BrienComment

Morbius: Not Quite a Horror movie, Just Another Super-Hero Movie

Morbius: Not Quite a Horror movie, Just Another Super-Hero Movie

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekMarch 31, 2022Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man nemeses, Morbius, Vampire themes, Jared Leto, Matt Smith Comments

Eternals: Marvel's New Wannabe-Avengers Franchise is Too Busy to Be Fun

Eternals: Marvel's New Wannabe-Avengers Franchise is Too Busy to Be Fun

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 3, 2021Marvel Cinematic Universe, Eternals, Chloé Zhao, Angelina Jolie, Kumail Nanjiani, Salma Hayek, Kit Harington, Indie filmmakers gone Marvel Comments

Black Widow: Latest Marvel Entry Is Big, Bold, Smart and Soulful

Black Widow: Latest Marvel Entry Is Big, Bold, Smart and Soulful

By Karen Gordon

ReviewJim SlotekJuly 6, 2021Black Widow, Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, Ray Winstone, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Cate Shortland, Action, Adventure, CGI, Female directorComment

Loki: Marvel's God of Mischief turns time-cop in a trippy mix of sci-fi influences

Loki: Marvel's God of Mischief turns time-cop in a trippy mix of sci-fi influences

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJune 9, 2021Tom Hiddleston, Loki, Avengers, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney+, Avengers: Endgame, WandaVision, Douglas Adams, Kate Herron, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Time paradox plotsComment

CRAVE CORNER: We relive the late Chadwick Boseman's Hollywood 'entrance,' and his thoughts on playing Jackie Robinson in 42

CRAVE CORNER: We relive the late Chadwick Boseman's Hollywood 'entrance,' and his thoughts on playing Jackie Robinson in 42

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekFebruary 8, 2021Crave TV, Black History Month, Jackie Robinson biopic 42, Chadwick Boseman, Nominated for a Golden Globe, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, James Brown in Get On Up, Thurgood Marshall, Marvel Cinematic Universe, T’Challa in Black Panther, Harrison Ford, Brian Helgeland, Rachel Robinson, Alan Tudyk, Branch RickeyComment

WandaVision: Turns out, what Marvel needed all this time was a laugh-track

WandaVision: Turns out, what Marvel needed all this time was a laugh-track

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 14, 2021Marvel Cinematic Universe, WandaVision, Avengers: Endgame TV sequel, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Marvel series set in sitcom universe, The Twilight Zone, Pleasantville, I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, Kathryn Hahn, Debra Jo RuppComment

PODCAST! Ep. 21. Is Avengers: Endgame good for us or bad for us?

By Jim Slotek, Karen Gordon, Bonnie Laufer and Thom Ernst

PodcastJim SlotekApril 26, 2019Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney/Marvel, Corporate manipulation, Emotional manipulation, Genre films, Fandom, Superhero films, Critic-hating, Emilio Estevez, The Public, Mary Kay Place, Diane, Andrea MartinComment

Avengers: Endgame - If you must say goodbye, this is the way to say it!

By Karen Gordon

Original-Cin Q&A: Lashana Lynch, Captain Marvel's high-flying BFF talks working with Brie and multi-Gs in an F-16

By Bonnie Laufer

InterviewJim SlotekMarch 7, 2019Lashana Lynch, Captain Marvel, Brie Larson, Marvel superhero films, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers, Women in previously male roles, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Annette BeningComment

Captain Marvel: Girls just wanna kill Skrulls

By Jim Slotek

Venom: Turning a classic Marvel villain into my-best-friend-inside-me

By Jim Slotek