[This article will contain spoilers for Avengers: Age of Ultron] A lot has been said about the problematic treatment of women in superhero movies these days, with just about major blockbuster being pretty male dominated. A lot of times the only major female characters we get are the love interests for the heroes, and that’s really a…
Avengers: Age of Ultron feels like the movie Marvel has been building towards for years. Not in terms of plot, really – that would probably be the original Avengers, the moment that all these standalone solo movies finally came together into one. But that film still felt like it was putting the pieces into place, getting this team together…
We saw a new Avengers movie you guys. I can’t believe I get to type that sentence. We’re still kind of processing our thoughts on the movie, because there’s a whole lot to unpack in there, but here’s some very early, very raw, very tired, very spoilery thoughts on the film after our midnight premiere.
Avengers: Age of Ultron has quite a bit of stuff that it needs to get right. It has to live up to the first movie, which was among the most entertaining superhero movies ever made. It needs to set up some new characters, like Quicksilver and Scarlett Witch, that will become important in future MCU films.…
When it was revealed that Tom Hiddleston would be appearing as Loki in Avengers: Age of Ultron, a lot of people let out an exhausted sigh. Have we not seen enough of Loki at this point? Does Marvel really need to be going back to that well again? They probably do, actually, for one simple reason: he’s one…
BY BRENDAN MORROW 