Author: Andreas Petersen

Netflix and Marvel have decided to ring in the Chinese New Year with a “bang”. A new promo for the highly anticipated second season of Netflix’s show was released today, in conjunction with the year of the monkey starting tomorrow.. The promo shows Daredevil standing on a building, with the Chinese new year celebrations commencing in the background (with fireworks and Chinese lanterns).  The words “The time has come to settle all debts” then appear above our hero.  A tradition commonly practiced on the first day of the Chinese new year is to settle all your financial debts to start…

When Jessica Jones premiered on Netlfix last November, people were immediately captivated by its mature storytelling and unflinching look at issues that have previously been unexplored in a mainstream comic book movie.  However, it being a piece in the giant cinematic puzzle that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, people instantly examined every side character and wondered what they meant to the bigger picture. One such character was Trish Walker, played by Rachel Taylor.  In the comic books, Jessica Jones’ best friend eventually becomes Hellcat. and it would seem that Taylor is eager and ready to suit up for the part in…

As both super hero films and video games continue to evolve into something that can be accepted as “art” by the mainstream, it’s easy to forget a day and age when a crappy video game based on a crappy super hero film was a forgone conclusion.  It seems that when Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight came out in 2008, it changed the landscape, not only in what a “super hero” film could be, but also in terms of the existence of the video game tie-in game.  Considering the movie’s success in both commercial and critical categories, many thought it odd…

By now, everyone knows that the MCU’s favorite green wrecking ball is going to team up with the son of Odin in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.  This left many wondering what kind of Hulk we’d be getting in the third Thor movie?  Mostly Bruce Banner?  Mostly hulked out Hulk?  Looks like the answer may be somewhere in the middle. In an interview with HitFix, Ragnarok director Taika Waititi said that they are still trying to figure out how to utilize Marvel’s green goliath: “It’s interesting, because at the moment, there’s a big conversation that’s happening about how far to push that. Whether…