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But, I told myself, if Thor could handle having to battle the Hulk on a trash planet, I could handle UC Berkeley. And so I did. I closed out my mostly joyful, occasionally thorny freshman year at Cal, feeling like a newly-minted adult.
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About a week from now, Marvel Studios (but really, Disney) will release “Avengers: Endgame” to what is speculated to be the biggest opening weekend of all time. Fortune magazine ran a piece saying some projections place the movie making close to $300 million in its opening weekend alone. Considering “Avengers:
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“Once Upon a Deadpool” is framed by a ludicrous premise that somehow works — Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) reciting the story of “Deadpool 2” to his captive, a now fully grown Fred Savage, à la “The Princess Bride.”
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“Ant-Man and the Wasp” serves as an ideal slice of chill-the-hell-out catharsis after the awesome but exhausting buildup and conclusion to “Infinity War.”
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After 10 years, 32 post-credit scenes, two Hulks and one record-breaking opening weekend for “Black Panther,” it’s time to rank all 18 films set in the MCU.
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That being said, if anyone can please explain why Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) needed to be in this movie, that’d be extremely helpful.
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Kyle’s excitement made my heart flutter. The movie was his — he sent me blocks of exclamation marks and little hearts, unwittingly coloring in magic marker hues over my tangle of nerves.
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It’s the height of summer, but theaters around the Bay Area are currently resplendent in a wide variety of amazing pictures right now, from tentpole superhero movies to quiet, meditative micro-budget films
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The normalcy of Peter Parker (excellently portrayed by bright-eyed Tom Holland) carries this film and helps create a new blueprint for superhero movies — movies more interested in the lives of all of the people, rather than the spectacle of putting those lives at stake.
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“The Dark Knight” is quite simply a masterpiece. It is a crime epic that has been described as this generation’s “The Godfather.”
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