Ant-Man

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum-meh-nia

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  • Title: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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With several of the big Marvel heroes phased out, it falls on Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) to move from plucky comic relief to tentpole of the MCU. Rudd’s third Ant-Man film as a lead is his weakest, although he’s certainly not to blame. Scott Lang continues to be fun and charming as the script moves characters through brightly colored CGI-manufactured sets for both joke and sight gag payoffs. And while many of those do offer a chuckle, ultimately that’s not much more to the script as when screenwriter Jeff Loveness attempts to get serious your attention will shrink to quantum levels.

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Avengers: Endgame

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  • Title: Avengers: Endgame
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Avengers: Endgame movie review

More than the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that began back in 2008 with Iron Man, Avengers: Endgame is the coda to the series that climaxed in the last chapter and now offers an opportunity for one last hurrah, for heroes to take their final bow, and for Marvel to usher out one set of lead characters and set the stage anew.

For my money, the most successful films of the past 11 years have been The Avengers, Avengers: Infinity War, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Excluding Winter Soldier, a great standalone film which cares nothing at all about larger continuity (it basically wrecked Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. after all), both Avengers and Infinity War faced enormous obstacles in pulling together various threads of the MCU into a single story. And both succeeded brilliantly. Avengers: Endgame comes off like their less-successful younger brother. I’m not going to call Endgame the Frank Stallone of the Avengers franchise as it may outshine Avengers: The Age of Ultron, but it’s a messy final chapter that offers plenty of memorable moments while failing to live up to what has come before.

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News and Notes

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news-and-notes-01142013-newsroomThe Hollywood Reporter is reporting The Newsroom will return for a third and final season and that former showrunner of The Office Paul Lieberstein will join the series as and executive producer

Marvel has confirmed that Michael Douglas has been cast to play Hank Pym, the scientist responsible for the Ant-Man technology stolen by Scott Lang (Paul Rudd)

Deadline is reporting FX has ordered a Pilot for a proposed comedy created by and starring Zack Galifianakis and co-written by Louis C.K.

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