Thunderbolts was a smash hit, and the hype for The Fantastic Four: First Steps continues to rise. But what about Marvel’s first big-screen outing of 2025, which just a few months past release feels like it barely made a blip on the radar? If you passed on seeing Captain America: Brave New World in theaters, […]
Captain America 4’s Ending Almost Had an Illuminati Tease
The post-credits scene of Captain America: Brave New World sure is…something, huh. Chances are you already know what it is, but if not, both it and what it could’ve been will be spoiled here. At the end of the film, Sam Wilson visits the captured Samuel Sterns in the lower levels of the Raft. Sterns ominously […]
Captain America: Brave New World Always Had a Bucky Cameo
If someone took bets on which, if any, Avenger was going to appear in Captain America: Brave New World, the odds-on favorite would be Bucky. Bucky, played by Sebastian Stan, and Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, have a Marvel bromance going back almost a decade to the third Captain America film, Civil War. They’ve […]
Marvel Insists Liv Tyler Was on Set for Captain America: Brave New World Despite Her Scenes Looking Like That
Captain America: Brave New World is one of the most peculiar MCU watches we’ve had in a while. While there are certainly narrative reasons that could be the case–mostly in that it is, bizarrely, more of a sequel to 2008’s Incredible Hulk film much more than it is a fourth Captain America movie–it’s mostly because it feels […]
Captain America 4 Flies To a Brave New Box Office
Captain America: Brave New World is the big new movie of the weekend, and it’s already off to a solid start for Marvel’s 2025 movies. Per the Hollywood Reporter, Sam Wilson’s solo outing has opened to $192.4 million worldwide, at time of writing. Of that, $92.4 million is from international audiences, stateside take is currently $88.4 […]
Open Channel: Tell Us What You Thought of Captain America 4
Deadpool & Wolverine was Marvel’s sole movie for 2024, but the studio’s got a larger output in 2025. First up is Captain America: Brave New World, the first movie for Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson after he took the mantle in 2021’s The Falcon & Winter Soldier. If things have been weird for Marvel post-Avengers: Endgame, Brave New World is in […]
A Field Guide to Marvel’s Multicolored Hulks
We all know the Incredible Hulk. He’s big, we won’t like it when he’s angry, and, of course, he’s very, very green. But that’s not the only hue Bruce Banner, or several other characters to take on the irradiated moniker of Hulk, has been over the years. As the MCU prepares for Captain America: Brave […]
The Complicated History of Sabra, Marvel’s Israeli Superheroine
Ever since Captain America famously leaped into action decking Hitler 85 years ago, Marvel Comics has been fascinated with the idea of superheroic nationalism. In Steve Rogers’ wake, flag-bedecked heroes representing a plethora of world powers, either as a response to the American creation of the supersoldier serum or the simple necessity of a superheroic […]
The First Reactions For Captain America: Brave New World Are In, and All Over the Place
Anthony Mackie makes his standalone solo film debut with Sam Wilson taking up the mantle in Captain America: Brave New World and the consensus on this outing is in. Was Harrison Ford’s Red Hulk versus Cap everything it’s been built up to be? Are we ready for what the Serpent Society has in store? Here’s […]
Anthony Mackie Hated a Huge Part of His Falcon and the Winter Soldier Cap Costume
When you’re playing a well-established superhero, certain parts of the super-suit are set in stone. But while the shield is always going to be part of Captain America‘s get-up, turns out there’s some wiggle room for parts of the costume that the star wearing it—in this case, Anthony Mackie in Captain America: Brave New World—can […]