What started as a tense exchange at the end of Hawkeye episode three turned into an emotional gutpunch. After all that, we got a fairly decent set of action and then a reveal connecting this show to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Black Widow. For those who didn't see Black Widow, Florence
Marvel Studios' What If...? is a show that had massive potential and promise. The whole idea of a show that subverts our universes expectations for these characters and changes them, is fascinating. Through the course of the first season of the show, we got alternate takes on: Captain Carter,
It seemed like the eighth episode of What If...? was getting derivative of itself. We've seen this story before. Avengers are in a bad place because they lost a previous battle to an unspeakable evil. This time it's Natasha/Black Widow and Clint/Hawkeye. They're fighting off the evil Ultron bots
After a couple of truly dark episodes of What If...?, we've got one that is... happy? This time around, it's all about Thor. The God of Thunder makes his arrival on Earth in a re-do of his first film, Thor. This time around, it's just him, and a bunch of other cosmic heroes and a Frost Giant Loki.
It had to happen at some point. The writing and stories told on Marvel Studios' What If...? have all been satisfactory to amazing so far. In episode six, "What If...Killmonger Rescued Tony Stark?" we get the first real stinker. There are a couple things that add to this one that don't put it
What's better than combining our favorite Marvel characters with a zombie movie? That was the fun of the original Marvel Zombies series of comics. It furthered with Night of the Living Deadpool and now we have this episode of What If...?. Our story here is, what if the Avengers and our world were
The last episode of Marvel's What If...? proved that they can use the concept well to heighten the stories that we already know. This week's episode gave us another story that used the concept of the show to its full advantage. So what was the concept this week? Well what if Nick Fury didn't get
Marvel's origin films do have a formula at this point in the franchise. They closely follow the heroes journey structure that many other films follow. It's just how these types of stories work. Some cases like Captain Marvel buck that trend a bit with some plot devices that change the formula a
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
