Every so often, Marvel would release a collection of comics known as the ‘What If’ series, in which a cosmic being named The Watcher peers into a darker, oftentimes wackier, alternate universe. Some notable stories include What If The Punisher Became Captain America, What If The Fantastic Four Had Not Gained
Author: Toby Amigo
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KYLO: Regarding that Star Wars Trailer
Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away, you’ve no doubt heard about The Last Jedi trailer that dropped earlier this week. There’s also an overwhelming chance that you’ve seen it. Multiple times. Despite the director’s warnings not to. You scruffy-looking nerfherder. To your potential disappointment, this isn’t
Dunkirk
The beach is cinema’s favorite battlefield. Muddy trenches are best left for exposition. And once you’ve seen a desolate, run-down town, you’ve seen them all. But the shorelines are where war has been depicted at its best. And therefore its worst. In Normandy, wave after wave of American forces were
Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2
Whoever said “Nothing lasts forever” didn’t live long enough to see the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For better or worse, this lean, mean, money-makin’ machine is gonna be churning out sequel after sequel long after Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Chris Evans’ muscles hang up their capes — figuratively speaking.
Star Trek Beyond
Upon the launch of the first trailer for Star Trek Beyond – a fast and furious (sorry) ninety-five seconds, frantically scored to Sabotage by the Beastie Boys – the Internet did what it did best: it overreacted. The general concern was that JJ Abrams’ iterations of the beloved franchise
X-Men: Apocalypse
Looking back, the year 2000 was pretty weird. Y2K paranoia aside, in 2000, Shaq and Kobe were friends, computers shrieked when you were connecting to the internet, and superhero movies were a joke – campy novelties with a thing for rubber nipples. Then Bryan Singer’s X-Men came along. Depth, wit,
Zoolander 2
Blue Steel. Ferrari. Le Tigre. Toward the end of 2001’s Zoolander, the megalomaniacal Mugatu accuses the really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking male model of recycling the same look over and over again. Fifteen years later, the same could be said again about Zoolander — both the character and the movie.
Sicario
After seeing Sicario, I had a few questions running through my head: Is it really that bad in Juarez? Should Emily Blunt play Captain Marvel? When did Benicio Del Toro transform into Mexican Brad Pitt? How can we live in a world where Roger Deakins hasn’t won an Academy Award
