The Middling Captain Marvel is Best as a Period Piece and Prequel
Captain Marvel excels as a period piece and a prequel, but it’s far from the feminist equivalent of Black Panther
Lex Luthor and Lolita
Far from being a simple slugfest between gaudily garbed do-gooders, Snyder has created a true work of cinema that continues to reward careful rewatching
“Teen Titans Go! to the Movies” critiques the over-importance ascribed to film
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies rejects that cinematic adaptation offers validation for characters and storylines from “lesser” media such as comics and cartoons
Solo shows us the Dark Side to a Star Wars cinematic universe
Solo fails at being either a standalone story or an essential episode in the Star Wars saga
The Moral Philosophy of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War
How Thanos’ disagrees with Steve Roger’s mantra “We don’t trade lives”
The Dialectic of Killmonger, Wakanda, and T’Challa in Black Panther
On the competing ideologies of Killmonger and Wakanda in Black Panther and their ultimate synthesis in T’Challa
“The Last Jedi” succeeds in surpassing the legends that inspired it
Future generations will cite Episode VIII as “the spark that ignites the fires” of their imaginations.
