After eleven years, 20 movies, and much brouhaha, with Captain Marvel, Marvel finally let one of their female characters lead an installment of their expansive cinematic universe, as well as hire a female (co-)director. The film has traits that make it unique and stand out, but at the same time, it often becomes a paint-by-numbers MCU origin story. Full of ups and downs, it’s still an engaging, entertaining addition, one that will have a lingering on-screen impact moving forward and also carries surplus revelatory weight simply by existing.
2018 was a great year for movies. (Read about my favorites HERE.) So were 2017, 2016, and so on and so forth as far back as long as you care to look. I’m a big believer that every year has great movies if you look for them, and 2019 is shaping up to be another in an unbroken line. With that in mind, here are my 50 most anticipated movies of the upcoming year.
Oh hey, after however many dozens of movies Marvel has
cranked out in their expansive cinematic universe, we finally get one with a
female protagonist. It’s almost like women like things, make up half the
population, or that there are great female comic book characters to put on
screen. That sounds just crazy enough to work. All sarcasm aside, this first
Captain Marvel trailer looks damn sweet and I can’t wait,
especially because I’m pretty sure Brie Larson punches an old lady in the face,
and I think that’s funny because I am a bad person. Take a gander below.
