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‘What if…?’ Season 2 already premiered the first three episodes. The first one dealt with the scenario in which Nebula, after defecting from the Black Order, joins the Nova Corps and saves Xandar from Ronan’s occupation and Nova Prime’s sinister plans.

She has gotten quite a big help from Howard the Duck, Miek, Korg, and our favorite Guardian of the Galaxy, Groot. Groot appeared in the first episode in a couple of scenes, and despite not having a major role, the end credits revealed that Groot was, for the first time in forever, voiced by a different voice actor as Voice actor Fred Tatisciore took over for Vin Diesel.

Diesel returned to voice absolutely all projects that featured Groot, both the adult and baby versions. Vin Diesel has earned around 55 million dollars for voicing Groot in four Marvel Cinematic Universe projects. This means Vin Diesel earned almost 14 million dollars per movie,...

"Next Goal Wins" stumbled out of the gate in its opening weekend at the box office, which is unfortunate news for director Taika Waititi. After last year's disappointing "Thor: Love and Thunder," I was hoping his football/soccer-themed comedy would feel like a return to the types of smaller, more personal movies he made earlier in his career. Sadly, the film is a total misfire. I didn't laugh a single time, and it explores its story of a team overcoming adversity through the myopic lens of its white coach, played by Michael Fassbender. There are a couple of nods to what the game means to the players and the culture of American Samoa, but the film is frustratingly committed to seeing most of the action through the eyes of Fassbender's Thomas Rongen, and basically congratulating him for eventually learning to tolerate the existence of trans people.

The movie is clearly...

Spoiler Alert: This story discusses major plot points in “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,” currently playing in theaters.

Over the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there have been several characters pulled from the comic books that have pushed the boundaries of verisimilitude and just common sense, including Rocket and Groot from “Guardians of the Galaxy,” Korg and Miek from “Thor: Ragnarok,” Goose from “Captain Marvel” and Morris from “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”

None of them, however, hold a candle to M.O.D.O.K.

One of Marvel’s earliest characters, created in 1967 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, M.O.D.O.K. — which stands for Mental (or Mobile or Mechanized) Organism Designed Only for Killing — is the nom-de-guerre of a human whose physique was horrifically contorted to give him a giant head and a tiny body. In order to be able to move,...

The following article contains spoilers for "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania."

"Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" has been out for a few days now. We've had some time to digest the adventures of the buggy superheroes in the Quantum Realm and draw some parallels to other Marvel Cinematic Universe adventures. In the film, Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Cassie Lang (Kathryn Newton), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) are sucked into the world beneath ours. While there, they meet a band of refugees who are fighting against the despotic ruler of the place, Kang the Conqueror (Jonathan Majors). They band together to take him out, setting Scott (and the rest of the multiverse) on the path to their next chapter.

"Quantumania" has a whole lot in common with another uprising film in the MCU — "Thor: Ragnarok." Whatever you felt about both titles,...