Break Time Reviews
Captain America: Brave New World marks the 35th film entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And if you count all the various TV shows (I’m not going to right now), suffice to say we’re deep into things by now. You would be forgiven if you couldn’t remember when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) gave Sam Wilson […]
As the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Discounting 2020, you have to go all the way back 2012 for the last time only one MCU movie was released. Again, not counting 2020, every year from 2017 onward had three releases – except for 2021, which had four. That puts a lot of […]
I did not have the highest hopes for The Marvels. I was worried it would require audiences to have seen both Ms. Marvel and WandaVision. The trailers did it no favors. In particular, the humor looked like it was going to be cringey and completely unfunny. While some of my fears were realized, it was […]
James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy has been one of the stronger series within the larger MCU. Off that alone, there were already huge expectations for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Add in the perceived “superhero fatigue,” the discussion of which has seemingly increased after the mixed reception of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, […]
The MCU has been *ahem* a marvel to witness (I’m sorry). Watching it grow from Iron Man into the incredible culmination a decade later with Avengers: Endgame was truly something special. One of the bigger, nagging issues, though, was the constant tie-ins to future projects, teasing new heroes and villains, hints of storylines to come […]
Chadwick Boseman’s death in 2020 was a tragic shock to us all. Boseman was a charismatic star, one who helped elevate 2018’s Black Panther to insane heights. But above all that, he was a good person. I don’t have the words to fully eulogize him here, but his death was a huge loss on so […]
Fans and critics often lump the first two Thor movies together as two of the worst and least popular entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They have their fans, sure, but not many are championing them as pillars of superhero movies. Then came 2017 and Thor: Ragnarok, with Taika Waititi taking control of the God […]
As much as I love the MCU, one of the growing concerns is how the continuing movies will incorporate – or not – the constant influx of Disney+ shows to the already-huge lore. And so, that hasn’t really been an issue. Yes, going to every movie and watching every show will of course add to […]
“Unfathomably incompetent.” That was my initial thought once the credits started to roll on Morbius. Lazy, bland, surface level at every turn. I think the “bland” note is what I keep coming back to the most. Nearly every decision made in Morbius was the most obvious, boring decision that could have been made. (Matt Smith […]
They did it. They actually did it. This (obviously subdued) reaction was common after Marvel released Avengers: Endgame in 2019. A movie of that size and scope had no real business working, much less working as well as it did. But it did, and it’s the crown jewel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There was […]
