Far From Home is far above its competition [Heavy Spoilers!]

I have great things to say about Spider-Man: Far From Home; Marvel's first Cinematic Universe film following the bombastic conclusion to their Infinity Stone saga. When the first teaser trailer came out, I was skeptical. It dropped before Endgame and felt like the worst example of draining tension out of character deaths. Then the trailer …

We’re through the Endgame

For days, all I've heard about Avengers: Endgame is that it is perfect. There was not a single bad thing said about the 22nd Marvel Cinematic Universe film. That couldn't be true. This movie is three-hours long. It simultaneously culminates two-dozen films, sequelizes a massive blockbuster and ends stories for characters we've known over 10 …

Captain Marvel is an excellent, if flawed, lynchpin for the MCU

So, guess who just saw Captain Marvel? The movie which Meninism Magazine voted worst blight on masculinity since Paul Feig's Ghostbusters. I kid. Any relation to real-life absurdist magazines or misogynistic straw polls is purely coincidental. It's just hilarious to me how reactionary the hate for this movie has been leading up to its release. But that's …

The Umbrella Academy precipitates to the top

I don't talk about seasons of television very often when reviewing things. More self-contained projects like movies tend to be easier to watch and digest, in my experience. But it has been a while since I've seen a binge-watchable show that hit me quite as hard as The Umbrella Academy. So much so that I …

A post-Stan Lee world

I don't know that I had anything planned to talk about today amid a storm of homework I've been putting off. But once I saw this news come through, I knew there was really only one thing I could do: Pay tribute. Within the last hour or so, rumors began to trickle around Twitter that …