Tag: Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Notes on the End of an Era
I fully anticipate that was the last time I’ll enjoy myself at a Marvel theatrical screening. I don’t know that for sure—I found a handful of Phase Four / Five movies somewhere between enjoyable and great (Spider-Man: Far From Home)—but there’s been something off-kilter post-Avengers: Endgame (2019) that the third and (if God is real) final Guardians…
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A Sad Lesson from Pitching Articles
I don’t hate all Marvel movies, I promise. But as an aspiring film (and culture, whatever that means) writer, it’s not what I want to write about. I’d prefer to be commissioned to write positive re-evaluations of twentieth-century films on major anniversaries, essays about visual effects in Indian cinema, or think-pieces about how we watch movies. These are the…
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The Movie that Did it for Me: “Guardians of the Galaxy”
“What movie made you realize there is something more than what’s on the surface?” For me, the answer is Guardians of the Galaxy. Reading the introduction to Emily Nussbaum’s new book I Like to Watch, she, a Pulitzer Prize winning television critic for The New Yorker, reveals that she ended her Ph.d literature program to…
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Reflections on the James Gunn Scenario
James Gunn is one of the only public figures to largely survive ‘being canceled.’ Gunn, the director of the Guardians of the Galaxy series, was fired by Disney in 2018 for a series of bad-faith tweets from a decade prior. His misguided humor led him to make jokes about rape, child abuse, and pedophila —…
The Transcendent Cinema 