Marvel’s First Family finally arrives in the MCU in July with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.  Set in a retro-futurist parallel universe, the Fantastic Four are well-established as the Earth’s primary defense against any threat but they’ve never faced anything like Galactus (Ralph Ineson), whose herald the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) declares the planet marked for […]

It’s been almost 20 years since the Fantastic Four were on the big screen, but Marvel’s first family is joining the MCU in July with The Fantastic Four: First Steps.  Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star as Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm in a retro-futuristic 1960s.  Transformed […]

It’s been 24 years, but Ridley Scott finally took us back into the Colosseum for Gladiator II. While it lacks compared to its 2000 predecessor, it also shares many of its strengths. Paul Mescal plays the grown Lucius Verus Aurelius, who was forced to flee Rome after the events of Gladiator. Finding a new life […]

Ridley Scott returns to Ancient Rome in November with Gladiator II.  Paul Mescal plays Lucius, who fled to Numidia in the two decades following the events of Gladiator and tries to live in peace with his wife and child.  When Rome invades, his family is destroyed, and Lucius is captured as a slave and sold […]