Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger -The Avengers -Iron Man 3 -Thor: The Dark World -Captain America: The Winter Soldier -Guardians of the Galaxy Following on three more solo films and an almost unrelated side story, the Avengers return in Age of Ultron. The film … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger -The Avengers -Iron Man 3 -Thor: The Dark World Thus far, the post-Avengers MCU wasn’t looking very impressive. We first had the disastrous Iron Man 3, then the underwhelming Thor: the Dark World. The real question was whether the … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger -The Avengers -Iron Man 3 Well, almost anything short of The Last Jedi would have been an improvement after the last entry (the key word there being almost, but we'll get to that), and Thor: The Dark World is certainly a … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Thor: The Dark World’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger -The Avengers So, it should be clear by now that I really like the MCU. Even the films that aren’t so good, I still retain a fondness for. I recognize they’re bad (e.g. Iron Man 2), but I don’t … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Iron Man 3’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger This is the film no one ever thought we were going to get; the one that comic fans dreamed of, but never expected. We’d had lots of superhero films, but they were all self-contained, apart from a few jokes … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘The Avengers’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor Concluding the first round of solo films is Captain America: The First Avenger, which, like Thor, takes another sharp detour in style from its predecessors. In the first place, it’s a period piece, with the main action taking place during World War II, while … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 After three relatively grounded science fiction stories, Thor takes the MCU in a starkly new direction with world-hopping high-fantasy tale of gods and kings. It’s really kind of amazing that it works as well as it does. We open with a trio of scientists – … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Thor’