Avengers

2024 might be an unusually barren year when it comes to Marvel movie releases — although hopefully Deadpool 3 will be special enough to make up for that — but 2025 will treat us to four full films. Fantastic Four, Blade, and Thunderbolts are coming, but the year’s first offering is Captain America: Brave New World. The Captain America trilogy is arguably the most consistent of all the MCU’s trilogies, so it’s a bit of a gamble in resurrecting the franchise for a fourth go-around. And yet letting Anthony Mackie’s Sam…

Apple Vision Pro is going to change the way we consume our favorite movies, bringing incredible immersive 3D versions of some of the best films into your living room.At launch, Apple says you’ll be able to watch “more than 150 3D movies from the world’s top studios with remarkable depth” from wherever you choose to sport the Vision Pro headset. You’ll feel like you’re part of the story, experiencing jaw-dropping scenes like the final fight with Thanos in Avengers: Endgame or the Sandworm in Dune like never before.So…

Even superheroes rarely fly so high only to fall as far as Joss Whedon. The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator was already popular among nerd circles, but he became a true geek god upon directing The Avengers in 2012 and helped Marvel reshape the face of cinema as we know it. What happened next would probably take its own blockbuster-sized movie to cover, but suffice it to say mixed reactions to sequel Age of Ultron and hideous reviews for his theatrical cut of Justice League saw the wheels already begin to come off the…

Image: Marvel StudiosThe MCU started with Robert Downey Jr.’s career-defining turn as Iron Man all the way back in 2008. Over the next 11 years, Downey would reprise the role for numerous sequels and team-ups, and now that he’s had some distance from the whole shebang, he thinks his Marvel tenure was intentionally overlooked. How Ewan McGregor Helped Bring Back Obi WanRecently, Downey appeared on Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast and mentioned how he feels like his Iron Man work—which he considers “some of the best work I…

Marvel Studios made a lot of the fact that Echo, its latest series to drop on Disney Plus, is the first to be released under the brand-new Marvel Spotlight banner — we’re still not entirely sure what that means but basically it’s to be applied to those projects that are standalone and don’t require a doctorate in MCU-ology to understand. At least, that’s what we’ve been told. In actual fact, Echo is arguably more dependent on Marvel’s history than most — it’s both a follow-up to Hawkeye and Daredevil, for one, with your…

Firaxis and 2K’s Marvel’s Midnight Suns was one of my favorite games of 2022, but it ended up falling by the wayside in 2023. Amid a deluge of great games and an busy year, it was hard to carve time out for the tactical RPG. But as 2023 wound down and with 2024 just days into being, I’ve come back to the game and found myself easily re-charmed by what seemed like a fairly unconventional game. The Woman Who Would Be PhotonThere are plenty of reasons to love Midnight Suns, but all of it is ultimately rooted in just how well…

The Last of Us, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Our Flag Means Death, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury, Doctor WhoImage: HBO, Paramount+, Max, Crunchyroll, BBC/Disney+With a dizzying array of streaming services available, there was no shortage of great TV this year—and while io9 has already shared our top 20 shows of 2023, today we’re revealing our top TV moments... all 50 of them. These are the moments when we laughed, cheered, shed a tear, shrieked in disbelief, and/or realized we were witnessing game-changing turning…

Kang is out, so what’s to become of Avengers: The Kang Dynasty? As we come to terms with the fact that Marvel Studios has ultimately let go of Jonathan Majors following his domestic violence trial going against him, our next thoughts for the franchise’s future concern the status of Avengers 5. With director Destin Daniel Cretton recently exiting the project, it might seem like the movie is in danger of being scrapped, but screenwriter Michael Waldron being brought on to revamp the script (he’s already writing Avengers:…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe forthcoming Avengers film will have its title “changed” after lead star Jonathan Majors was found guilty of assault.On Monday (18 December), The Independent learnt that Majors, 34, was dropped by Marvel Studios in the immediate aftermath of the verdict, which saw a jury find him guilty of assaulting his ex-girlfriend.Majors’ presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) was in…

Image: Marvel StudiosThe future is uncertain for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. Marvel’s planned crossover film, set for release May 1, 2026, will likely feature a new face taking over the role of Kang the Conqueror as Jonathan Majors has been ousted as the MCU’s reigning big bad.What Did the Actors Bring to Their Back to the Future: The Musical Performances? After the verdict in Majors’ court case, in which the actor was found guilty of third degree assault and harassment, Marvel now purportedly has a big role to fill. The…