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You might assume that the life of a 95-year-old would be relatively sedate. Not so for Marvel comics icon Stan Lee, who has spent the last year embroiled in a variety of worrying stories, ranging from the LAPD being called to his house to investigate a complaint of elder abuse, reports of money being siphoned from his personal bank account without his permission, conspiracies involving his daughter's inheritance being stolen from her by con-artists and, just last week, a truly bizarre story involving Lee's blood being stolen in order to create a special ink to sign comics with.
If you're a discerning and intelligent cinemagoer, you'll have recognized the scene where Luke Skywalker milks a big ol' alien titty and gulps down its suspiciously colored milk as one of the finest moments of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. One of Rian Johnson's most successful tactics in the film was to demolish the idea of Luke as some invincible hero and rub our faces in the grubby reality of his miserable life.
Marvel Japan has just released a look at some of the costumes we're going to see in Avengers: Infinity War in a couple of weeks, and it seems as if they've inadvertently confirmed the presence of a certain sardonic hero in the upcoming movie.
Karen Gillan thinks that Black Panther has opened the gates for diversity in the MCU, and would like to see an all-female Avengers movie in the future.
If the Avengers: Infinity War hype machine was an actual machine, it'd be an unstoppable ten-tonne juggernaut barreling down the highway. Disney and Marvel Studios have perfected the art of blockbuster marketing, releasing an apparently never-ending trickle of trailers, TV spots, photos and posters. And the latest piece of the puzzle is two new one-sheets that are very definitely playing it safe when it comes to design.
The post-credit scenes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have become one of the franchise's most-loved features, resulting in audiences happily sitting through minutes of credits to get a glimpse at what's next on the menu. Black Panther was no exception, with the film revealing that Bucky Barnes aka The Winter Soldier was recuperating from his brainwashing in a remote Wakandan village.
Star of Stranger Things Charlie Heaton is set to play Cannonball in the hotly anticipated X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. All reports suggest that the film is going to be a serious departure from your typical superhero fare, with both studio and director aiming for making a straight-up superhero horror movie. Now, in an interview with EW, Heaton has gone a little further and said:
“It’s basically about these mutants in a facility for damaged mutants. It’s a story about these characters coming to grips with who they are and it’s a horror X-Men movie, which we haven’t seen before. I feel like, for an X-Men movie, yeah, I think they’re going full-fledged horror. Without saying too much — I really don’t want to give away too much what it’s about, it’s very under wraps — but it is, in terms of anything we’ve seen in the X-Men world, it definitely is a horror film. It’s scarier than anything we’ve seen in that genre.”