With Avengers: Infinity War just weeks away, we have decided to revisit the first Avengers film. This gives us a chance to relocate the narrative thread of the Avengers movies and help us prepare for the upcoming battle against Thanos.
This podcast is a discussion of Joss Whedon's first Avengers movie. We discuss not only our favorite moments in the film, but also how the story set up the films that would follow.
Avengers: Infinity War is one of the most ambitious ensemble films ever attempted by a studio. It will bring together all parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that has been established in 18 films in the last 10 years.
The newest trailer for the film recently dropped and we are here to give you our thoughts on the trailer, as well as to speculate as to what may happen in the film. So beware of potential spoilers. We also discuss the future of the MCU after Avengers 4.
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Marvel's Netflix series Jessica Jones has returned for it's second season and we are giving our full breakdown and review.
This season focuses on the internal turmoil that can arise when revisiting past trauma in search of closure. Where many Marvel series focus strongly on establishing the contrast between heroes and villains, Jessica Jones Season 2 challenges those ideas and puts forward a more personal story. This serves the series will in that it differentiates itself from the other shows in the Marvel/Netflix universe.
Season 2 has more than it's fair share of subplots as well. The secondary characters all have their own stories that branch off of the main narrative. Some of those subplots are more successful than others, but the core of the story remains that arc of Jessica Jones herself.
Annihilation is the latest film from Alex Garland, whose debut film Ex Machina, was a critically acclaimed work of sci-fi filmmaking. Garland sticks with that genre with his adaptation of the Jeff VanderMeer's book Annihilation. The adaptation is loose as Garland, after reading the book, wrote the screenplay based on his memory of the book, never referring back to it so that he could retain the "dream-like" quality of the story.
Annihilation follows the story of a biologist who enters into a natural phenomena called "The Shimmer," that seems to be having an impact on the environment around it. Within the deeper story we find evident themes of self-destruction, refraction, creation and metastasization. These themes are well explored as a work of science-fiction, but a film in this genre would not be complete without stunning visuals and world-building which this film does so well. It also includes a creature so unsettling that the mere realization that it exists on film will make you recoil while also grinning with delight.
In this podcast we give our full review of Annihilation while also discussing the film's many themes. It is a thoughtful work of science-fiction cinema that deserves to be seen in theaters.