The highlighted link from the New York Times does a nice job of summing up Stan Lee’s life: Stan Lee, dead at 95. Superhero of Marvel Comics/New York Times. I never really knew Stan Lee, since I only met him once very briefly. I can offer the following… My own two cents. I used to…
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Marvel’s “Iron Man” ten years later…
The Marvel shared cinematic universe first came online with 2008’s “Iron Man.” There’d been many other Marvel Comics properties adapted as films (“X-Men”, “SpiderMan”, “Hulk”) but “Iron Man” was the first that was deliberately designed to be part of a greater whole. It’s a universe that (10 years and 19 or so movies later) shows no…
“Avengers: Infinity War” is a rollicking rollercoaster ride on a tightrope track…
In my previous reviews of “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Black Panther” , I’d noted my acute case of ‘Marvel fatigue.’ Too often these movies are ridiculously top-heavy with CGI eye-candy, Dolby Digital-booming explosions, and butt-numbingly long sequences of flying super-people punching away at cars, planes and buildings like so many LEGOs. Dialogue in these kinds of films consists mainly…
