Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Thor: The Dark World, Marvel/Disney We’ve known for a while that Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), the astrophysicist who also happened to be Thor’s love interest in the God of Thunder’s first two movies, was not appearing in Thor: Ragnarok. At first, Marvel’s answer was simply that most of the movie wouldn’t take place on…
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Daredevil season 2. Sometimes, it feels unfair to overanalyse plot holes in comic book adaptations. The genre relies on suspension of disbelief, and as long as the narrative makes emotional sense, who cares if there are a few discrepancies? Daredevil‘s second season, however, went further than most. Its…
Editor’s note: This review is spoiler-free. Iron Fist arrives with more baggage than its creators intended. Dogged by accusations of cultural appropriation (was it really a good idea to cast a white man as the protector of a mythical Asian culture?), it’s a show with something to prove. And in the six episodes made…
Magneto is a Jewish Holocaust survivor. But Marvel might be making him allies with Hydra, an organization with Nazi roots. In the eyes of its most fervent fans, Marvel has assassinated Magneto, arguably the most beloved villain the comic book company has ever created. And they did it with just one cover. This past week, Marvel revealed…
How ‘Captain America: Steve Rogers’ Is Trying To Disassociate HYDRA From Nazis And Why It Won’t Work I’ve written about this on Twitter a few times, but I think it’s worth getting down all in one place. In the pages of Captain America: Steve Rogers it was revealed that Steve — through Cosmic Cube related…
GIF It’s nice that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has enough self-awareness to recognize how ridiculous it is to pretend that every single moment of this movie is an epic, end-of-the-universe adventure. Sometimes, Drax just needs to eat. As much as trailers for trailers are usually annoying and mostly just a snippet of the…
It’s been a tumultuous few weeks behind the scenes of the upcoming Batman film, but now it’s official. Warner Bros. announced that Matt Reeves, the director of Cloverfield, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and this summer’s War for the Planet of the Apes, is directing a standalone Batman film. “I…
Hugh Jackman might be hanging up his claws after Logan, but director James Mangold is determined to keep the Wolverine saga going with X-23. Mangold recently told We Got This Covered that he’d love to work with Dafne Keen on a follow-up film, showing Laura’s transition into becoming the new Wolverine. As you might know,…
Chip Zdarsky, Kris Anka, and Matthew Wilson’s Star-Lord comic, which released its third issue this week, is great so far. It’s telling a fun tale of Peter Quill making his way while stuck on Earth without his fellow Guardians of the Galaxy around. But we’re not here to talk about that. We’re here to talk…
Image via screengrab. It’s been nearly a year since the release of the critical disaster that was Batman v. Superman, and most chatter about the upcoming standalone Batman movie—the one that’s supposed to star Ben Affleck—has died down. But it’s not because Affleck is trying to mend his relationship with Jennifer Garner or add some…