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MARVEL ZOMBIES SERIES REVIEW The dead have risen… and they’ve got superpowers. Marvel Zombies shambles onto Disney Plus, expanding the fan-favorite What If…? episode that first teased this gruesome alternate Marvel universe. Inspired by the 2005 comic series by Robert Kirkman, the animated show imagines a world where a zombie virus infects Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, […]

THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS MOVIE REVIEW In what seems to be fantasy wish fulfillment for fans who’ve been saying what they ACTUALLY want from a Fantastic Four movie, the MCU finally gets into the game with The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Set on a parallel retro-futuristic Earth (don’t expect any ties to the current […]

IRONHEART PART 2 REVIEW After the events of the heirloom heist going south, Riri finds herself no longer allied with her criminal crew, sees her new friend Joe AKA Ezekiel Stain hauled off to prison, and her AI N.A.T.A.L.I.E. dejected after Riri considers deleting her. Marvel TV’s Ironheart has come to a conclusion with many […]

IRONHEART PART 1 REVIEW Disney Marvel has dropped a new MCU series starring Dominique Thorne following her role as the tech-genius Riri Williams, first introduced to us in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. The show picks up after the events of that film and takes Riri back to her hometown of Chicago where she reconnects with […]

THUNDERBOLTS* MOVIE REVIEW The final film of Marvel’s Phase 5 (is anyone keeping track anymore) follows a group of d-listers gathered together reluctantly because of forces arrayed against all of them. No, this isn’t The Suicide Squad, it’s Thunderbolts*. Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) is our central character and first point of contact, as we watch […]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN SERIES REVIEW Daredevil: Born Again has kicked, punched, headbutted, and billy clubbed its way into placing Matt Murdock where he’s always rightfully belonged in the MCU: in more than just a cameo. In his own series and returning with the subtlety of a flaming confession booth and the fury of a thousand […]

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD MOVIE REVIEW Here we are at the 35th film in the MCU and the 4th Captain America film, albeit with a notable change. Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) once a partner to Steve Rogers, was chosen by him specifically to take on the mantle of Captain America, after the events of […]

VENOM: THE LAST DANCE MOVIE REVIEW Unbelievably, Venom: The Last Dance is the third film in the series to get made, starring Tom Hardy in the dual roles of Eddie Brock and his charming but homicidal alien symbiote Venom. This time he’s on the run from nearly everybody. The law wants him because after the […]

DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE MOVIE REVIEW Deadpool is finally in the MCU for real. He made the cut. He gets his third movie. But this time he’s bringing Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine with him on an adventure to save their universes from the ‘sacred timeline’ wiping them out (re: the MCU). So, we gotta reference the Time […]

X-MEN ’97 SERIES REVIEW In the late fall of 1992 after a previous failed pilot, the X-Men animated series hit the airwaves, ushering in a new phase of animated Marvel cartoons. Despite being plagued with production, budget, and time constraints it remained popular enough to last until 1997. A few years later, X-Men the movie […]

ECHO SERIES REVIEW Five months after the events of the Hawkeye series, Maya Lopez is being pursued by Wilson Fisk’s organization, leading her to return to her hometown in Oklahoma, where her ruthless behavior in New York City catches up with her. She must face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots, and embrace […]

THE MARVELS MOVIE REVIEW There’s a lot here to go through so keep up. Ahem. Captain Marvel is back from deep space where she tried to free the Kree from their AI intelligence but only made things much worse. Ms. Marvel is just chillin’ at home with her Captain Marvel fangirling and her family. Monica […]

SECRET INVASION SERIES REVIEW Back in the time of Blockbuster Videos and grunge rock, a young Nick Fury teamed up with a woman from outer space and together they would thwart the evil efforts of the Kree and stop the genocide of the peaceful, shape-shifting, extra terrestrials known as Skrulls. Thirty years later, branches of […]

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE MOVIE REVIEW I’m going to start by telling you something that the studios really dropped the ball on making extremely clear about Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse: it’s part one of two and ends on a huge cliffhanger. Now you can just enjoy this sequel to Into The Spider-Verse as it deserves […]

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA I never expected the Ant-Man movies to make it to three, even with Paul Rudd’s inexhaustible charm. I DEFINITELY never expected the third film to be the one that opens wide the gates on the major villain for the Multiverse Saga. But here we are. The whole ant-family reunites and […]

I AM GROOT SERIES REVIEW I AM GROOT: I AM GROOT! I AM GROOT? I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT. I AM GROOT… I AM GROOT! I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT, I AM GROOT, AND I AM GROOT. *TRANSLATION* […]

THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER MOVIE REVIEW You’re Thor? I’m so thor from laughing I can barely breathe. That was pretty much Chris, Danni, and Wright’s reaction to Taika Waititi’s follow-up to his wonderful (sorry haters) Thor: Ragnarok. Now with Asgard on Earth being run by Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) as a tourist attraction and Thor taking […]

DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS MOVIE REVIEW Benedict Cumberbatch returns as the Master of the Mystical Arts (but not the Sorcerer Supreme…that’s Wong now) and boy does he have his horribly injured hands full. While attending the wedding of his ex, Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams) a giant monster starts tearing up the town, […]

MORBIUS MOVIE REVIEW Sony’s grip on Marvel characters extends largely to Spider-Man adjacent villains and anti-heroes and they continue down this ‘MCU is not directly involved’ film path with Morbius. Jared Leto plays Michael Morbius, a brilliant scientist who is dying from a rare blood disease who is determined to crack it, to help both […]

DIGITAL NOISE EPISODE 297: THIS SHOW’S CALLED DIGITAL NOISE Chris and John do their home-release-review thing with a cool stack but wait! What’s this? They don’t see eye-to-eye on everything this week and there’s some amount of discussion on Edgar Wright’s latest in 4k, a big swing and arguably a miss from the MCU, and […]

HAWKEYE SERIES REVIEW It’s Christmas time in NYC and all poor Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) wants to do is get home and be with his wife and kids. But here comes this teenager, Kate Bishop (Hailee Steinfeld), to mess up his holiday plans. She’s a very young woman who during the process of trying to stop […]

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME MOVIE REVIEW In retrospect, it seems like it would have made more sense to record this entirely as a spoiler review. Because those anxious to avoid spoilers aren’t looking at ANYTHING that even potentially could spoil something about “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and the rest of you already saw it. Some […]

ETERNALS MOVIE REVIEW Director/co-writer Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”) unexpectedly joins the MCU to take on one of the most sprawling, esoteric, world-building tales in Marvel’s canon, the story of the group of immortals called Eternals, originally created by the legendary Jack Kirby. The ensemble of superpowered beings guides and watches over humanity, but only intervenes with […]

WHAT IF… SERIES REVIEW We grew up reading those wacky “What if…” comics from Marvel that speculated sometimes seriously about alternate worlds where events happened differently in the comics, like ‘What if Captain America had not vanished during WWII?’ and sometimes not so seriously like with ‘What if the Avengers defeated everybody?’. This new animated […]

LOKI SERIES REVIEW The third of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Disney+ tie-in shows is here as Tom Hiddleston returns as Loki. Yes, he died in “Avengers: Infinity War”. But if you were paying attention in “Avengers: Endgame”, that earlier version of Loki who was captured and still a big-bad right at the end of the […]

BLACK WIDOW MOVIE REVIEW The time has finally come, decidedly long overdue, for Scarlett Johansson as the Marvel character Black Widow, to have her own movie. This new adventure, while being released post-mortem, explores what happened to Natasha when she was on the run from the US after the events of “Captain America: Civil War”. […]

MARVEL’S M.O.D.O.K. SERIES REVIEW Hulu, Robot Chicken, and Marvel team-up! Sounds like a one-off Marvel title in the 80s that probably would have had the “Not Brand Echh!” imprint on it. And so, in some ways, is this stop-motion animated show featuring Patton Oswalt as the voice of the giant-headed, hoverchair bound, supervillain (that was […]

WANDAVISION SERIES REVIEW Continuing where the MCU films left off, this first in a series of Disney+ mini series follows Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) as she lives an idyllic and literally sitcom life with her formerly dead partner Vision (Paul Bettany). It soon becomes clear (like, immediately, if you’ve watched “Endgame”) that something is way […]

HELSTROM TV SERIES REVIEW Remember when Marvel announced their “Adventure into Fear” franchise on Hulu that was going to interconnect Ghost Rider and more horror-themed Marvel properties into new shows? Well, all that’s left of it is this vestigial limb, the adaptation of their Son of Satan comics characters, siblings Daimon and (renamed) Ana Helstrom. […]

AGENTS OF SHIELD – SEASON 7 REVIEW Special Agent Phil Coulson and team are back for one last mission through time and space for the seventh and final season of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” This show started with a lot of promise but found itself losing a lot of viewers super fast during its first season. […]

MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS (SEASON 3) TV SERIES REVIEW Hulu’s adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Adrian Alphona’s comic Runaways comes to an end…kind of. In this season, we primarily follow Nico Minoru (Lyrica Okano) and the team as they lead the fight against the magic powered nemesis Morgan le Fay (Elizabeth Hurley). And at some point, […]

In this epilogue to what has now been dubbed “The Infinity Saga” (IE: every MCU film up to this one), Spider-Man returns 5 years after what people are referring to as “The Blip”. Peter is dealing with the loss of his mentor Tony Stark, Happy Hogan putting the moves on his Aunt May and trying […]

Dread it, run from it, our Ultimate MCU film ranking arrives all the same! All films ranked (pre-Avengers: Endgame) as we conclude our Public Axis Phase Three fireside chats! Plus, our Top Stan Lee cameos, post-credit scenes, and personal Top and Bottom 3! Let your friends know about Public Axis on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter […]

Dread it, run from it, our Ultimate MCU film ranking arrives all the same! So close to Avengers: Endgame with part one of Public Axis Phase Three fireside chats! Let your friends know about Public Axis on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and keep those Facebook comments coming at our Happy Campers group!

We’re closer and closer to Avengers: Endgame and Public Axis rides the hype train with their Ultimate MCU film ranking, carrying on with Phase Two! Let your friends know about Public Axis on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and keep those Facebook comments coming at our Happy Campers group!

With Avengers: Endgame right around the corner, Public Axis gets hyped and sets out to rank all 21 MCU films, kicking off with Phase One! Let your friends know about Public Axis on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and keep those Facebook comments coming at our Happy Campers group!

Our current timeline is spider-infested. This is pretty much the year of the web-crawler. Between the Spider-Man 2 trailer coming out shortly (much anticipated), the success of the PS4 game, and now, this animated film that debuts popular character Miles Morales into the cinematic spider-verse (among others), we’re positively lousy with spider-stuff. And we wouldn’t […]

Not exactly the most anticipated super-hero (sorta) movie ever, but at the same time, everyone wants to know, HOW IS IT? The expectations for Tom Hardy playing Spider-Man’s traditional symbiote-decked villain were low-to-trainwreck and our audience’s schadenfreude is palpable. Well folks, we got bad news for you. It’s not really that bad. Not really great […]

The Marvel train keeps-on-a-rolling, even while we wait on tenterhooks to see wtf happens after the last Avengers film. So here, as one of our critics put it, is a palate-cleanser, a touch of fluffy-happy-silly, to make you try to forget how much pain you’re still in from that last Spider-Man scene. If you can. […]

If you don’t like meta-superhero movie jokes, extreme carnage, and lots of filthy jokes, then Deadpool probably wasn’t your thing. In which case, Deadpool 2 won’t be your thing x2. But, if it IS your thing, man you’re in luck, as Ryan Reynolds puts back on the spandex (the trick appears to be to try […]

This week Wes and Steve discuss more Wiggles, Wes’s Horizon Zero Dawn binge, Infinity War (Spoilers: 16:30 – 20:30) and our Top 5 Make Me a Musical! What are your Top 5 Make me a Musical? Let us know! Leave a comment or e-mail us at [email protected]!

The culmination of ten years and 18 films before it, it would just be plain silly to try to deny what Marvel has accomplished here. This track record of success (whether YOU like them or not) and giant merging of story-lines is a real first. Finally, we have the long-teased Thanos (Josh Brolin) throwing down with […]

Marvel’s latest show on Netflix is the highly anticipated/dreaded, The Punisher, featuring the ideally cast Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, the veteran who is on a never-ending rampage against crime and anyone even with a tertiary connection to the murder of his family. But what did we think about it? Listen to Chris, Jeff, and […]