Patrick Macnee, who just died, embodied the ultimate gentleman adventurer for millions of people. As John Steed in The Avengers, he proved that an old-school gent could be ready for anything—whether it be robot killing machines, or a tough, self-assured lady in a catsuit.
Black Widow’s rise to badassery arguably began in 2004, when Richard K. Morgan wrote a miniseries that revamped her backstory and gave her a much stronger inner life. And now that we’re all talking about Black Widow in the wake of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Morgan has some thoughts about how to achieve her full…
When Joss Whedon quit Twitter last week, many speculated that it was because of criticism he was receiving about the latest Avengers movie, which he wrote and directed. But now, in a lengthy interview with BuzzFeed, Whedon says that any analysis (including some from Patton Oswalt) that he did so because people were…
Over at Esquire, Stephen Marche—who you may remember from that time he described one single Megan Fox eyebrow as “the sublime, a force of nature, the patterns of waves crisscrossing a lake, snow avalanching down the side of a mountain, an elaborately camouflaged butterfly”—did a great thing by getting a nine-year-old…
In between marketing winding up for its May release and Toy Fair around the corner, merchandise for Age of Ultron has been showing up everywhere. But one Avenger has been largely absent: Black Widow. It's not something new to Marvel — and that's starting to be a problem.
Phase 3 has been announced, and it's everything — everything you could want. Captain Marvel! Black Panther! Inhumans! And most incredibly, a two-part Avengers: Infinity War!!! We've got all the details right here!
Caption this: Mark Ruffalo and Chris Hemsworth onstage at Marvel's Hall H Panel for 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron' during Comic-Con International 2014 at San Diego Convention Center.
Tom Hiddleston's impression of Owen Wilson playing Loki is remarkably spot-on, and it turns out that he has a bunch of these actors-as-Loki bits up his sleeve. His Samuel L. Jackson impression involves a bit more swearing.
Artist Robinade's Avengers dress designs looked cute—and, for the most part, quite wearable—when we first saw them on paper. This trio of cosplayers brought three of those dresses to life and make us wonder: Why can't we buy a Loki-inspired frock off the rack?
Maybe the economy has got you down — you're unemployed, and feeling droopy-face (not unlike a pug) because you've found that you have way too much time for criticizing granite fetishists on House Hunters. You need to break out of that cycle. Have you considered making short remakes of popular movies starring your…
The folks at Entertainment Weekly had Sesame Street's beloved Cookie Monster and Grover stop by their offices to express their jealousy over their coworker Elmo's recent foray into musicals. Never ones to dwell in petty envy, the two then decided to make a musical of their own by adapting pop culture favorites into…
