Countdown to Endgame #22: We Made It

I love you three thousand.

Countdown to Endgame #21: Infinity War Goes Dark

In which we fully explore our complicated feelings about Thanos.

Countdown to Endgame #20: Not Even a Great Morrissey Joke Can Save Ant-Man and the Wasp

Maybe your kids will like it?

Countdown to Endgame #19: Ragnarok is Out of This World

Zeppelin meets synthwave.

Countdown to Endgame #18: Oh Man, It’s Black Panther Time

Complex and joyous, Black Panther wins in all the ways that are actually important.

Countdown to Endgame #17: In Which We Get Real Sassy About Doctor Strange

Steven Strange is a hard man to love.

Countdown to Endgame #16: In Spider-Man, the MCU Takes Heroism to High School

Bopping around to the Ramones, all nervous and spazzy, getting sweaty-palmed over a pretty girl and stressing about Academic decathlon, this 15-year old Peter Parker is a trademark high school movie hero.

Countdown to Endgame #15: Dense and Deep, Civil War Levels Up

Captain America: Civil War kicks off phase 3 with a banger. All the Avengers are here (well, almost) – and things are not going well.

Countdown to Endgame #14: Ant-Man Is Charming Enough, I Guess

Definitely watch it if it happens to be on already.

Countdown to Endgame #13: Age of Ultron is Homework

Take notes, kids – this will be on the test.

Countdown to Endgame #12: I Got Something in My Eye During Guardians, Vol. 2

Emotional realness in a super weird can. Only these films.

Countdown to Endgame #11: The Guardians Crank it Up

As The Avengers hunt down Hydra on earth, elsewhere in the universe, a very different kind of team is about to meet up.

Countdown to Endgame #10: Time for a Winter Soldier Lovefest

Though it sold itself as a political spy thriller – and it does excel at that, in its heart, The Winter Soldier is also an exploration of the lasting trauma of violence, the transformative power of friendship, and the inherent risk in choosing to trust.

Countdown to Endgame #9: The Dark World is Serious, You Guys

Asgardian history so ancient it has been lost to the fog of time for all but the eldest of its residents, who remember it not as myth but history. In earth terms, that’s the kind of old you get into arguments on holidays with your parents about.

Countdown to Endgame #8: Iron Man 3 is a Real Mess

Aldrich Killian is the Guy Pearce of superhero villains – he’s rich, successful, white, and handsome. No one’s really sure why he keeps doing what he’s doing, but I guess we can’t stop him?