Chloe Zhao’s take on Eternals is a highly character-driven one. It is somewhere that risky step Marvel has taken to try out a new way of approaching its stories. Yes, the movie does miss the punch when you look at it as a superhero movie in the MCU. But the exposition-driven treatment isn’t entirely bad… Continue reading Eternals
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, the new addition to the Marvel cinematic universe, is typical for sure, but at the same time, it is highly entertaining. It is that classic origin story that prefers to establish the life of its central protagonist comprehensively. Hence, even the main conflict is also happening in… Continue reading Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Black Widow
Black Widow, the stand-alone movie for the first female Avenger, has a story that surely clears the mist around that character. Natasha Romanoff’s past and the backdrop are something that was least explored during the first major phase of the MCU. And we do get a fair enough idea about what has happened with that… Continue reading Black Widow
Loki
The evolution of the MCU in the OTT space is dramatic and fantastic. While every other superhero movie had this world-saving agenda, the MCU films were able to humanize some of its key characters in a unique way. And with the new Disney Plus original contents, they are now trying to tap into the conflicts… Continue reading Loki
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, at its core, has that texture of realness we have seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War. In both those films, especially in Civil War, the story had that perspective to look at the practical implications of the acts we have seen in that particular universe.… Continue reading The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
WandaVision
What amuses you the most by the time you finish watching all the nine episodes of the new Disney + original series WandaVision is how the storytelling expands, similar to how the screen aspect ratio expands. I paused watching the show in the middle of the first episode and wondered for a second whether I… Continue reading WandaVision