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Revisiting and celebrating the work of Michelle Pfeiffer,  the best actress of my lifetime. Spoiler alert: I'll be discussing plot points for the new film Ant-Man and the Wasp . ***** If you've spent any time at all on the internet this week, chances are you've noticed the gushing adulation and hyperbolic lovefest surrounding Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in the newly released, and extremely fun,  Ant-Man and the Wasp . It's fascinating to behold this lovefest—and also to be an active participant in it! Obviously, I spent some time on Twitter praising Pfeiffer's work as Janet van Dyne, the original Wasp, after seeing the movie. And of course I'll be heaping more praise on her work here. Yet, what's so intriguing about it all is that she only appears in the film briefly! It's a glorified cameo. She has, max, fifteen minutes of screen time (an awfully generous estimate on my part), but she is the highlight of the film, no questio...

I’ve recently come into possession of the first twenty issues of  Silver Sable & the Wild Pack  (1992, Marvel Comics), a mostly forgotten '90s spinoff series (Sable first appeared in a Spider-Man story). Silver is currently starring in a one-shot  that picks up the numbering of this series, so it seems like the right time to look back at her '90s output. I knew nearly nothing about the character, beyond that she shared a first name and hair color with one of my favorite Batman love interests, Silver St. Cloud (look her up, kids, she was the bomb back in the day—she figured out Bruce was Batman!). After one issue of  Silver Sable , though, I knew the important stuff: Silver's a fierce and highly skilled mercenary for hire, a shrewd businesswoman running an international empire, and a serious Type A personality who has no time for your sentimental bullshit. The oft-overused term “badass” (I'm as guilty as the next) doesn’t do her justice. She’s Adrienne B...

Danny, showing off his skinny jeans at Colleen's dojo. Well, now. Marvel's Iron Fist on Netflix certainly was a major disappointment, wasn't it? I'm a fan of the Danny Rand character and the mystical martial arts world he inhabits in Marvel Comics, which includes strong supporting cast members like Colleen Wing . I've read a lot of Iron Fist comics, so I was possibly more invested in this series than most people I know. So when the early buzz was terrible, my expectations started to plummet. It's wise to be wary of pre-release reviews, of course, especially in this case when they only screened the first six episodes of a thirteen episode series. Yet, in this instance, those early reviews were accurate. The show is a mess, and not an entertaining, b-movie style mess, but instead a convoluted and boring mess. The first few episodes were so interminably dull that I seriously contemplating quitting after the second. Things picked up a little after that, w...

I compiled a list for Sequart of film and television projects that I'd like to see Marvel Studios tackle next. You can read it here . They've done a terrific job of world building since the first Iron Man film in 2008, so I offer a few ideas on ways to expand to the further reaches of the Marvel universe. We were able to get out and catch Civil War over the weekend and it was every bit as good as I'd heard it was. It's renewed my enthusiasm for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, after Age of Ultron had tamped down that excitement quite a bit. But everything wrong with that film was corrected for Civil War , which felt more like a natural extension of Winder Soldier than Ultron . That's fine by me because I absolutely loved Winter Soldier . In fact, all three Captain America films have been aces in my book. Chris Evans owns the character of Cap at this point. I'm already saddened by the prospect of the inevitable reboot in a decade starring someone else. S...