Author: Maurice Mitchell

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) – Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland), Quentin Beck / Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) Spider-Man: Far From Home is a good movie, but not as good as others. Jon Watts’ second Spider-Man movie succeeds on many levels. As the end of Phase 3 of the Marvel movies, it excels but as a stand-alone movie, it lacks something. Warning: Minor spoilers for Spider-Man: Far from Home. The movie picks up five years after the events of Avengers: Endgame and everyone including Peter Parker (Tom Holland) are trying to rebuild life after “The Blip” where everyone disappeared for five…

Which classic Superman actor died? What does a Thanos bathing suit look like? How many people have watched Netflix’ Stranger Things 3? What scene was cut out of Justice League? How long has Nick Fury been a [SPOILER]? We can’t always cover everything, so here’s everything you missed this morning Tuesday, July 09, 2019. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). Above Image: Bucky cosplay by RemnantShade | Redditt – /MarvelStudios Warning: May Contain Spoilers 1. Actor Vinnie Jones’ Wife Tanya, 53, Dies ‘Peacefully’ in Their LA Home | MSN The wife of the actor, best known to geeks for playing…

Here are all the science fiction marathons airing television on July 4, 2019. Tomorrow a lot of people will be out barbecuing. Because it’s a federal holiday most people will be out enjoying family and friends on this date. But if it’s too hot to sit outside or you and your friends just like catching a bunch of sci-fi movies together it’s also a great time for TV. Here are all the sci-fi marathons running on July 4th, 2019. All airings are listed in the Eastern time zone. Stranger Things 3 (Netflix) The third season of Netflix’ original series Stranger…

Did Batman begin…production? Is Killmonger coming back for Black Panther 2? How did the Batman soundtrack save Prince’s career? Which network is planning a Sandman series? Is Falcon in Spider-Man: Far From Home? We can’t always cover everything. So here’s everything you missed this morning Monday, July 01, 2019. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI). Above Image: Batman’ Soundtrack Saved Prince & More | /Film 1. Kevin Feige Debunks Killmonger’s Return in Black Panther 2 | Screenrant “The honest answer to that is that is pure rumor and speculation, because Mr. Coogler is just only in recent weeks sitting down…

Who might Lady Gaga be playing in the MCU? Why aren’t Vulture and Scorpion in Spider-Man2? What movies inspired Stranger Things season 3? Which villain has been spotted on Black Widow? How does Tom Holland drink? We can’t always cover everything. So here’s everything you missed this morning Friday, June 28, 2019. In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) Above Image: Tom Holland can’t take off his mask. So he drinks water from a straw stuck in his mask. He says he can eat and drink too. | Huffington Post 1. SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME Director Reveals Why The Vulture And Scorpion…

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) – Peter Parker / Spider-Man (Tom Holland) Spider-Man: Far From Home is coming to theaters and with it the very first interracial relationship in the MCU. This is a problem. For all the studio’s promises of diversity, they’ve fallen way short in this area. First, they took forever to bring one in. Then they dropped it. Finally, they’ve shoe-horned one into the movies without explanation. Mixed couples were literally illegal at one time. Now the numbers have expanded to about 15% in the US. As recently as the 1960s, movies with interracial love stories faced…

Action Comics #1012 cover by Jamal Campbell Read this review to find out if Action Comics #1012 is worth buying If you want to avoid spoilers for this comic then skip to the overall section at the end. Warning: Spoilers for Action Comics #1012 This Superman comic opens with a faux social media account that includes a tongue-in-cheek reference to Aquaman 2 (“to be mostly water ballet”) and a conversation between Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen. Then it cuts to crime boss Mr. Strong and his men talking about Superman’s fight with Red Cloud and how it ended with him retreating.…

Find out the top 10 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. 1. Action Comics #1012 Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Szymon Kudranski Cover Artist: Jamal Campbell Summary: Artist Szymon Kudranski joins superstar writer Brian Michael Bendis as the attacks of Leviathan threaten targets across the globe, and the agents of the invisible mafia continue to infect Metropolis in this tie-in to EVENT LEVIATHAN! On Sale: Jun 26th, 2019 Price: $3.99 Buy Action Comics 1012& on Comixology 2. Spider-Man Annual #1 – Featuring Spider-Ham! Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Jason Latour Artist: Jason…

We can’t always cover everything. So here’s everything you missed this afternoon Tuesday, June 25, 2019 1. Steven Seagal Was Considered for ‘Batman’ Before Michael Keaton Landed the Role | /Film “There were a lot of people at Warner Brother who wanted to cast it with an action star. They wanted to cast the part as Batman, as opposed to casting it as Bruce Wayne. You have to make Bruce Wayne work, because Batman is, for the most part, going to be a stunt guy, or it’s going to be somebody running around in a costume in long shot. You…

Black Leather Jackets sent us a shirt for review. While the styling is nice, the fabric is not what I expected. Black Leather Jacket sent us a shirt styled after the “Quantum Realm” suits seen in Avengers: Endgame. It was used to allow the team to go back in time. It also helped to set the movie apart from the previous films. “We call them the team suits. And we early on decided [revealing them] was a big differentiating factor between [Endgame] and the other films,” Marvel Studio head Kevin Feige told io9. “The Avengers have never had matching outfits…

Rumors suggest an actor from the Sam Raimi films may be coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). This could be a major spoiler so I’ll put the full details after the warning banner but a major character from the comic books and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy may be coming to the MCU. We don’t post a lot of rumors, but this one is very exciting. A lot of source material from the comics has been brought to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Characters like Aunt May and putting Peter Parker in high school are straight from the early comics.…

Here’s what will be coming from the re-release of Avengers: Endgame next week. We reported earlier that Avengers: Endgame is being re-released into theaters. Now let’s figure out what it means. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told numerous publications that Avengers: Endgame will be re-released in theaters with extended footage that didn’t make it into the initial film. The movie already clocks in at just over three hours. But the movies have plenty of material left. The two editors Jeffrey Ford and Matthew Schmidt spent two years editing the MCU tentpoles back to back. They told Business Insider they had…

We can’t always cover everything. So here’s everything you missed this morning Wednesday, June 19, 2019. Avengers: Endgame to beat Avatar, Dark Phoenix director says the timeline makes sense and Doritos is giving away a Spider-Man: Far From Home suit. All this and more in today’s ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) 1. AVENGERS: ENDGAME One Step Closer To AVATAR’s Record As Kevin Feige Confirms Re-Release With New Footage | Comic Book Movie Avengers: Endgame is currently only $44 million away from the top spot at the global box office from Avatar. “Not an extended cut, but there will be…

Dark Phoenix (2019) is a bad movie, but not in the way you’d expect. In some ways, it’s better than X-Men: The Last Stand which came out 13 years ago. In some ways (most ways) it’s worse. First a mini-review. Dark Phoenix is a good example of a poorly executed plan. If you haven’t seen X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) it was an attempt to adapt the beloved comic book storyline known as the “Dark Phoenix Saga”. It started in Uncanny X-Men #101-108 (1976–1977) and written by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, and John Byrne. That’s the story where Jean Grey aka Marvel…

Late last year it was revealed that Marvel Studios is “fast-tracking” a movie about Shang-Chi and making the first Marvel movie to have a lead Asian character. It’s pretty awesome and could change the face of Asian representation in American films. The only problem is that Shang-Chi is racist. Very racist. So racist that Chinese people are already talking about boycotting the film. I’m a huge fan of the character but there are some improvements that would make him even better. First, I’ll talk about the history of Shang-Chi. Then I’ll talk about how Shang-Chi was born out of the…

News broke today that the new DC Universe show Swamp Thing has not been renewed for a second season. Basically, it’s been canceled less than a week after airing. Does that mean DC Universe is shutting down too? What is DC Universe? DC Universe is a subscription-based streaming video service that includes original television shows, access to some of the animated series and films from DC’s back catalog, a rotating selection of comics from DC Comics, forum discussion space, and a merchandise store. It formally launched in September of 2018. It has three original live-action series running including Titans and Doom…

War of the Realms #5 cover by Arthur Adams Find out the top 11 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. Will Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel get their lives back? Can the Super Sons stop Rex Luthor from destroying Earth? Can the might of Superman stop the World Forger? 1. Adventures of the Super Sons #11 Publisher: DC Comics Writer: Peter J. Tomasi Artist: Carlo Barberi, Matt Santorelli Cover Artist: Dan Mora Summary: Superboy and Robin have been chased through the galaxy by Rex Luthor and his band of murdering minors…and at last the final battle has begun! Using…

Spider-Man: Far From Home is less than a month away and Marvel is cranking up the marketing material for International audiences. The newest batch of promotional character sheets spotlights the main characters Michelle “MJ” Jones (Zendaya), Happy Hogan (Jon Favreau), Peter Parker (Tom Holland), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and Quentin Beck aka Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal). A new Chinese poster shows a few more characters and adds the stone elemental (not Molten Man). New International trailer for China. Here are the new promo photos Betty Brant (Angourie Rice), Ned Leeds (Jacob Batalon), and MJ look on in horror as the water…

Read on to find out about Robert Pattinson’s new role as Batman. Last week news broke that Robert Pattinson has been cast as the billionaire superhero Bruce Wayne aka Batman. He’s starring in the movie tentatively titled The Batman scheduled for 2021. Matt Reeves is best known for the Cloverfield (2008), before making the Planet of the Apes prequels. The announcement has been met with applause and disdain but here’s everything you need to know about Robert Pattinson’s Batman. 1. Pattinson is More Than Twilight The Lighthouse (2019) – Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson Pattinson is best known as the hunky…

Read the review to find out if Doomsday Clock #10 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank is worth buying. If you want to avoid spoilers for this comic then skip to the overall section at the end. Warning: Spoilers for Doomsday Clock #10 This series has been in the works for a long time. The first issue was released in November back in 2017! Years later we finally get the answer to the big question of who’s manipulating the timeline of the DC Universe. After waiting all this time is it worth it? Yes! Doomsday Clock is a 12-issue limited…

Superman: Leviathan Rising Special #1 cover by Yanick Paquette Find out the top 10 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. Spider-Man and Heroes in Crisis storylines end. Ms. Marvel goes to space. Superman faces death by Leviathan. Plus, T’Challa’s history as a slave is revealed. All this and more in this week’s comic book pull list. 1. The Amazing Spider-Man #22 Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Nick Spencer Artist: Humberto Ramos Cover Artist: Humberto Ramos Summary: THE CLIMACTIC CONCLUSION OF “HUNTED” IS HERE! Spidey faces an impossible situation that will push him as far as he’s ever been pushed.…

For decades Thor’s hammer has been unliftable by those “unworthy”. But, in the comics, several very unworthy people have lifted and used Mjolnir. There are lots of “rules” set in comic books that get broken by creative writers. Nothing can break Captain America’s shield. Batman can’t beat Superman. No one unworthy can lift Thor’s hammer. In Avengers: Endgame Captain America lifts the hammer of Thor. Thor says “I knew it!” But who else can lift his special hammer? Here’s a list of supervillains, and some who used to be supervillains, that have lifted Thor’s hammer for various reasons. 1.​ Magneto…

Find out everything you never noticed in the Picard teaser. The first teaser for the CBS All Access series Picard dropped this week. The Picard Vineyards Most of the trailer shows Picard walking through a vineyard. This is his family wine vineyards in La Barre, France named “Chateau Picard”. In The Next Generation, it was established that Picard was French thanks to his namesake. In the season four episode “Family”, Picard visits his estranged brother at the vineyard. In the series finale two-parter “All Good Things” it established that one of his possible futures was tending to the family business.…

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) – Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) The first trailer for the new Terminator movie Terminator: Dark Fate dropped this morning and it features some very familiar faces and insane action. We talked about the movie trailer when it was released at ComiCon and now we have more info. Schwarzenneger has always been the star but Linda Hamilton is now the new Queen of the Terminator series. Here’s the official poster. Linda Hamilton played Sarah Connor thirty-five years ago and she’s still our best defense against Skynet delayed plans for humanities destruction. In Terminator: Dark Fate, the actress returns as…

Shuri #8 cover by Kirbi Fagan Find out the top 10 comics featuring ethnic characters or talent this week. It’s a fun bag this week from DC and Marvel. The Thor Frost Giant event crosses over to Moon Girl. Batman discovers the shocking identity of the Arkham Knight. Miles continues his adventures (relationship?) with the new WOC superhero Starling. Shuri gets a new costume and a new mission to save the African nation of Wakanda. A Nazi Superman fights the Freedom Force. Plus, Superman faces the final end of the massive “Leviathan” story arc! 1. Action Comics #1011 Publisher: DC…

Vanity Fair released a new behind-the-scenes article on the making of the newest Star Wars movie Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). It includes in-depth interviews with the cast and crew and lots of amazing photos by masterful portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz. The whole article is worth reading but here are the biggest highlights. First, here are the covers: 1. The Return of the Knights of Ren While we got a brief look at the Dark Side order of elite warriors led by Kylo Ren under Supreme Leader Snoke. They showed up in a flashback of the fall of Luke…

Avengers: Endgame is quickly climbing up the box office ladder. It earned an estimated $63 million this past weekend and Avengers: Endgame is now the number one movie at the box office for the third straight weekend in a row. It’s domestic cume now stands at $723.5 million. Endgame is the third movie to ever make more than $700 million domestically. It’s now the third highest grossing domestic release of all-time ahead of Marvel’s Black Panther. At the time of this writing, there have been 39 movies to make over one billion worldwide and each movie has taken a different path…

For years fans have speculated that Chris Evans was retiring from his role as Captain America in Avengers 3 or 4 and another actor would take his place. Many fans expected his old friend Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) would take over, but that didn’t happen. Sam Wilson is the new Captain America and it makes perfect sense. Warning: Spoilers for Avengers: Endgame follow In Avengers: Endgame the team has to do a “Time Heist” and steal all the Infinity Stones from the past. In the last moments of Endgame, Steve goes back in time to return the six Infinity Stones. To the surprise…

Find out which superhero has the best beard. Who do you think will be number one? Throughout history attitudes about beards have varied widely. Whether people love them or hate them has a lot to do with where and when the person lives. Some religions (like as Islam and Sikhism) consider a full beard a requirement. Some cultures look down on a beard as showing the man to be savage or uncivilized. Others see a beard as a sign of a man’s virility, wisdom, strength, sexual prowess. Superheroes with beards are relatively rare in movies mainly because they contradict the idea…

Thor: The Dark World (2013) – Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgård) One thing about the Marvel films is there is a fair amount of foreshadowing. A random image can open the door to new characters and movies. It turns out a big one from Thor 2 didn’t pay off till six years later. Since the Spider-Man: Far From Home trailer dropped fans have been talking about the shocking reveal that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) contains multiple universes. In the trailer, Quentin Beck aka Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal) says Spider-Man (Tom Holland) exists in Earth-616 while he’s from Earth-833 (which is a lie).…