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The history of Marvel Merchandise’s long, confusing and mostly terrible history with Black Widow’s presence on toy shelves is exactly that: long, confusing, and mostly terrible. But never fear, true believers — somehow toy-based representation of Black Widow can get even worse! Wait, what? Remember that shot of Natasha riding her motorbike out of the…
View this image › Joss Whedon at an event for Avengers: Age Of Ultron in Seoul, South Korea, on April 17, 2015. Ahn Young-joon / AP When filmmaker Joss Whedon decided to delete his Twitter account on Monday, the day after his movie Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-highest domestic opening weekend ever, it…
May 7, 2015 1:00 PM Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: About a year ago, we singled out some of our favorite unloved summer blockbusters. With the event-movie season upon us again, it’s time for the sequel. Mystery Men (1999) When Mystery Men was…
Start: GPT End: GPT Begin comScore Tag End comScore Tag Google Tag Manager End Google Tag Manager May 06, 2015 9:00am PT by Lesley Goldberg ‘Powers’ Renewed for Second Season at PlayStation (Exclusive) Courtesy of Sony Pictures Television The comic book drama was the first original scripted series for the Sony-owned video gaming console. Powers…
[Editor’s Note: The author of this piece is a former Marvel employee and wishes to remain anonymous.] Disney does not care about Marvel’s female market, which makes us virtually invisible. I could probably populate Pluto with the amount of Princess items Disney makes. But where are Gamora and Black Widow? This exclusion of women from Marvel…
The arguments over Black Widow have gotten ugly. Last night, Joss Whedon quit Twitter, with an image that pointed the blame at Twitter haters. But there’s a real issue with Black Widow, and her role in Avengers: Age of Ultron, and it’s worth talking about. It’s worth talking about it like adults. After Whedon abandoned…
Today in “This is why we can’t have nice things” — Joss Whedon has left Twitter. After a blockbuster weekend for “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the writer and director took an abrupt leave of social media Monday. In his final two tweets, he posted, “Now I may me down to sleep, I pray the lord…
If you aren’t a moron idiot, you probably enjoyed the first Avengers movie from 2012, because it was great. The sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, came out this past weekend, and it’s pretty good, but also, in parts, incredibly fucking stupid. Here are many of the ways that it sucks. Tony Stark is an idiot…
There are so many damn superhero movies out there that it’s easy to feel like any movie pitch based on a comic book is automatically greenlit into a trilogy and corresponding spinoffs. However, that’s not actually the case — for every Spider-Man reboot, there are countless comic book adaptation projects that never made it past…
Spoiler alert: it’s a rom-com! “For Black Widow, falling in love can be hard, but it can also be … INCREDIBLE!” Cardigan-clad Scarlett Johansson, last night’s Saturday Night Live host, is a true hero for participating in this (probably depressingly accurate) sketch. [Via] core-decorated SNL Hilariously Skewers Marvel’s Idea Of “A Girl Superhero Movie”.