It’s time for the awards announcement that nobody asked for and that has got nobody talking – well, except me, and to anyone who will listen. After a strong year for cinema it’s time for me to take my hat off to the films, performances, scores and screenplays that wowed me in 2019. It’s a…
Tag: Avengers: Endgame
Spider-Man negotiations and the court of public opinion
“I don’t want to go, Mr. Stark” You know that the movie business is fast paced when you rock up at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim this weekend only to find a Marvel poster with Spider-Man on it. What a messy week it’s been. On Tuesday, information was leaked regarding a breakdown in negotiations between…
Is this the best frame in the MCU?
If you didn’t squeal with delight during the climactic finale of Avengers: Endgame, then I challenge you to a CAPTCHA test, because you’re definitely sounding like an Android. Falcon’s call of “on your left” followed by Alan Silvestri’s already legendary “Portals” score, which served to punctuate the return of our previously snapped heroes, built to…
Endgame topples Avatar on the MCU’s big weekend
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is a pretty big place – so big, in fact, that it lost it’s greatest accomplishment in it’s own news cycle. Avengers: Endgame, the climatic conclusion to the sprawling Infinity Saga, has overtaken James Cameron’s Avatar as the highest grossing movie of all time this weekend, 13 weeks after it’s initial…
Confessions of a learner geek
When it comes to movie, TV and comicbook geekdom, I’m really not sure I can vouch for being a fully paid-up member of the club. After all, it took me until October 2017 to watch my first Marvel movie of any kind- a cinema trip with friends to witness the eye-popping and brilliantly comedic Thor:…
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