Tag: Iron Man

  • The Spider-Verse Movies Are So Far Ahead Of Other Superhero Movies That It’s Embarrassing For Everyone Else

    The Spider-Verse Movies Are So Far Ahead Of Other Superhero Movies That It’s Embarrassing For Everyone Else

    This post contains spoilers for “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.”I don’t write much about superhero films. You can probably count my superhero-related pieces on two hands, maybe even one. Despite being the cinematic cultural dominator of the 21st century, every passing year brings me further and further away from the genre. 15 years ago, with the…

  • The Marvels: Everything We Know About the Captain Marvel Sequel

    The Marvels: Everything We Know About the Captain Marvel Sequel

    The Marvel Cinematic Universe is easily the most recognizable fictional superhero universe to have won audiences’ hearts all over the world, or perhaps the entire universe. After the franchise released the first MCU film, Iron Man (2008), it was the beginning of something significant for American filmmaking. The franchise has come a long way since…

  • ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Little Mermaid’ and ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Added to National Film Registry

    ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Little Mermaid’ and ‘When Harry Met Sally’ Added to National Film Registry

    Marvel’s original superhero blockbuster “Iron Man,” Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” and Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal’s classic romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally” have been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.Every year, the Librarian of Congress names 25 motion pictures that are at least 10 years old and register as “culturally, historically or…

  • How to Watch Black Adam: Streaming, Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD Release Dates

    How to Watch Black Adam: Streaming, Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD Release Dates

    In the past decade or so of cinema, there has been one genre that continues to dominate our screens. Superhero films have long been a staple of modern media dating all the way back to the first known comic strip in 1936, with Lee Falk’s ‘The Phantom’ character. That being said, much of their time…

  • MCU Timeline Explained: Infinity Stones, Infinity War, Endgame, & Beyond

    Editor’s Note: This includes updates up to the end of Black Panther Wakanda Forever.Any Marvel fan worth their vibranium could tell you that the MCU as we know it launched in 2008 with Jon Favreau’s Iron Man. A tougher task by far is to deliver a blow-by-blow retelling of the events that occurred within the…

  • This Is the Next Horror Title Marvel Should Adapt

    This Is the Next Horror Title Marvel Should Adapt

    Since the original Iron Man, Marvel Studios has stuck strictly to superhero content, focusing on the Earth’s Mightiest Heroes as they battle corporate criminals, alien invaders, secret societies, and otherworldly demons alike. Even now, this branch of the Disney conglomerate still deals largely in superhero media, be it feature films, television events, animated series, and…

  • The 14 Best Robert Downey Jr. Movies, Ranked

    The 14 Best Robert Downey Jr. Movies, Ranked

    Robert Downey Jr. has had one of the most amazing careers of any actor working in Hollywood today. Once a heartthrob in teen movies, Downey Jr. completely revitalized his career when he was cast as Tony Stark in Jon Favreau’s 2008 comic book movie “Iron Man.” The role nearly wasn’t his, as it had previously…

  • Best Superhero Families, From Fantastic Four to The Incredibles

    Best Superhero Families, From Fantastic Four to The Incredibles

    We’re arguably living in the Golden Age of Superhero Movies. In the years following the releases of the 2008 films Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, we’ve seen some of the best superhero content in decades. When The Avengers made its mark in 2012, people fell in love with how the superhero team overcame their…

  • How A Fast & Furious Cameo Earned Vin Diesel The Rights To Riddick

    How A Fast & Furious Cameo Earned Vin Diesel The Rights To Riddick

    Vin Diesel’s surprise appearance at the end of “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” was a bit of a mind-blower at the time. What was initially an unconnected entry in a series about street racing turned out to bridge previously existing characters within a shared universe, predating the “Iron Man” post-credits scene by two…

  • The Russos Reveal Jon Favreau Tried To Convince Them To Not Kill Tony Stark In ‘Avengers: Endgame’

    The Russos Reveal Jon Favreau Tried To Convince Them To Not Kill Tony Stark In ‘Avengers: Endgame’

    While it remains to be seen if Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark will truly stay dead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the narrative move was undoubtedly shocking to many audience members, given how beloved Stark and Downey was to fans. While everyone at Marvel obviously agreed it was the right move, one person really was…