COVID forced a two-year break of Marvel Cinematic Universe entries, from “Spider-Man: Far From Home” on July 2, 2019 to “Black Widow” on July 9, 2021. By the time we hit July 8, 2022, Disney will have released SIX MCU movies in a 365-day period. Talk about making-up for lost time. The Mouse House and […]
Watch as LCJ completes a 1,000-piece puzzle celebrating the characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. (Puzzle provided by MondoShop.com) ————————— Lights Camera Jackson (a.k.a. Jackson Murphy) began his career as a film critic/entertainment reporter in 2006 at the age of 7. Jackson has written over 1,000 reviews of new releases. And altogether he has seen […]
If you’re a big movie fan, and especially a big SUPERHERO movie fan, what were you probably doing around this time last April – and the April before that? Gearing-up for an “Avengers” movie! But here we are, in April 2020, and there is no “Avengers” movie this year. In fact, there’s no Marvel Cinematic […]
From Marvel Studios comes “Doctor Strange,” the story of world-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident robs him of the use of his hands. When traditional medicine fails him, he is forced to look for healing—and hope—in an unlikely place: a mysterious enclave known as Kamar-Taj. He quickly […]
The next evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a founding member of The Avengers to the big screen for the first time with Marvel Studios’ “Ant-Man.” Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, […]
The entire world groaned back in 2010 when Sony announced an immediate reboot of the “Spider-Man” saga. 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man”, featuring a new cast with a new take on the origin story, was released only five years after “Spider-Man 3”. For me this new take was bland and surprisingly boring, saved only by the […]
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has raised the bar yet again with the return of The Star Spangled Man with a Plan. “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is the sequel to 2011’s highly entertaining “The First Avenger”. In that film we were introduced to a scrawny Steve Rogers (played by Chris Evans) who was asked to […]