Marvel
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The Masculine, the Feminine, and the Struggle for Balance in Marvel’s Eternals
What if Eternals wasn’t a failure of Marvel storytelling, but its most radical, visionary film yet? It may have taken me four years to fully realize it, but this movie quietly redefines what it means to be strong, heroic, and a true leader. And the reason so many of us missed it? We were too busy expecting…
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Things I Want in the Next Batman Movie
As you have likely heard by now, Robert Pattinson is our next Batman. Which is fine. I actually like Pattinson and feel that he’s been generally underrated. I don’t feel super strongly either way about the casting yet. That’s going to depend largely on what version of Batman we’re going to get. And that is something I do have…
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Marvelthon #1: Iron Man (2008)
I came across the image above about a month ago, and decided it sounded like the perfect time/excuse to introduce my 9-year-old son to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the coming of the new year. And thus was born The 2018 Father-Son Marvel Movie Marathon Extravaganza, or The Marvelthon, for short. When I shared my…
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Iron Fist and the Lack of Stylistic Consistency
Since posting my last post on Iron Fist, I’ve completed the series and kept telling myself that I was done with it. As the show went on, I liked it less and less but wanted to write about it more and more. I still have some Iron Fist demons that need to be exorcized, because…
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Netflix’s Iron Fist and the Failed Expectations of Chinese Martial Arts Cinema
So I’m finally getting around to Iron Fist (I’m only 6 episodes in at the time of this writing) and I think I’ve come to certain realizations. Episode 6, in particular, helped crystallize a lot of the thoughts that were bubbling and percolating in my head throughout the first five episodes. Let’s start with the…
Munib Rezaie, PhD 