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Captain America 4 Is a Go With Anthony Mackie
Sam Wilson is Captain America. And he’s getting a movie to flex his shiny new wings. The Hollywood Reporter has word that Falcon and the Winter Soldier showrunner and lead writer Malcolm Spellman has been tapped to co-write Captain America 4, which will see Anthony Mackie reprise his role as Sam Wilson and as the … Continued
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Ended… What Now?
Marvel’s six-week journey called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is over. The season one (?) finale, “One World, One People,” brought the series to its conclusion, but did so in a rather predictable, straightforward, almost disappointing way. All of the loose ends wrapped up almost exactly as you’d imagined they would, setting the table … Continued
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A Teensy Falcon and the Winter Soldier Featurette Salutes the Series’ Most Satisfying Fight
So far, at least. It’s certainly reasonable that the Disney+ series has something even grander planned for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’s final two episodes, but whatever spectacle is on the way, it’s hard to imagine it being more satisfying than last week’s episode, where Ayo (Florence Kasumba) and the Dora Milaje utterly handed … Continued
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Marvel’s Winter Soldier Success Barely Benefits His Comics Creators
Despite comic book superheroes being some of the biggest moneymakers on screens big and small lately, the creators who brought them to life in the first place rarely get more than a fraction of that financial success coming their way. But as Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier cooks up a storm on Disney+, … Continued
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This Week’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wasn’t Really About Either
Episode four of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was all about contrasting viewpoints, mainly from two people—neither of which were the Falcon or the Winter Soldier—who represent factions on a collision course for possible war. And it might be up to Sam (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky (Sebastian Stan) to make sure that doesn’t … Continued
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Falcon and the Winter Soldier Takes Marvel’s Inevitable ‘Wait and See’ Approach to Queerbait
For years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s textual approach to LGBTQ+ characters has been heavy on speculation and light on actual representation. Fans have spent years and years shipping Avengers with other Avengers in romantic crossovers to rival Endgame, while the studio has either asked them to wait, or offered them a Russo brother in trying … Continued
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The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in April
Though we may have begun turning a corner in the fight against covid-19, viewers are still turning to streaming entertainment more than ever and thankfully, companies are happy to oblige with tons of new content. At the start of each month, most streamers—such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—do a little shuffle, adding … Continued
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The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Gave the MCU’s Most Underrated Villain What They Deserved
Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier premiere reintroduces the world to Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes at a time when both heroes, like most everyone else in existence, are still piecing their lives back together in the aftermath of Avengers: Endgame. Though the series was never meant to be about Steve Rogers himself, Captain … Continued
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Starts By Exploring the Dense, Depressed, Post-Blip World
Thanks to the Avengers, half the beings in the universe reappeared out of thin air five years after disappearing. While Marvel fans saw how that occurred in Avengers: Endgame, that film, and the ones after it, only scratched the surface of what it all meant in-universe. Well, the premiere of Disney+’s The Falcon and The … Continued
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Wants to Tackle Big Issues, Fictional and Otherwise
All Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier needed to be was Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan talking shit and beating up bad guys. If it was that and only that, it would have been great—but Marvel Studios isn’t satisfied with just great. In a world where Sam Wilson has been given Captain America’s shield … Continued
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Everything to Remember Before The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Just two weeks after the end of WandaVision, the next story in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to be told. (Which is nice considering we waited well over a year between the last two installments.) That story is called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and the six-episode Disney+ series will center on two … Continued
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This New Falcon and the Winter Soldier Clip Is a Minute of Pure Delight
Okay, honestly? It’s only 54 seconds long. But if you watch this amazing new clip from the show, it’s going to be the best 54 seconds of your day, guaranteed. It features what Sam “Falcon” Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky “Winter Soldier” Barnes (Sebastian Stan) do best, which is banter with each other, flex at … Continued
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The Nerd’s Watch: The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Streaming in March
Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services—Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+, and HBO Max—can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away—and io9 is here to help you … Continued
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Anthony Mackie Fights a Robot in an Exclusive Clip from Netflix’s Outside the Wire
This weekend brings the release of several new streaming movies but the one that interests us most has Marvel star Anthony Mackie playing a cyborg. The Netflix film is Outside the Wire and stars Mackie as a secret military cyborg in charge of an important mission. He recruits a hotshot soldier (Damson Idris) to help … Continued
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Anthony Mackie’s Existence Is Classified in the New Trailer for Outside the Wire
We’ve already seen Anthony Mackie as a soldier who becomes super with a little help from technology. Next, we’ll see technology make him a different kind of super-soldier—an android, to be precise. That’s the set up for Outside the Wire, a Netflix original out next week. Set in the near future, Mackie plays an Army … Continued
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Anthony Mackie Is a New Kind of Terminator in the Trailer for Netflix’s Outside the Wire
To fight a robot, you might just need a robot. Anthony Mackie and Damson Idris star in the first trailer for Netflix’s Outside the Wire, about a drone pilot tasked with helping his superior officer located a doomsday device. There’s just one tiny detail: His boss is an android. Netflix has released the first trailer … Continued
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Anthony Mackie Is Stuck Between an Alligator and an Armored Soldier
Stuck between a gator and a man charging at you in a suit of armor? I mean, really, who can’t relate? Oh right. No one. It’s a situation so absurd it almost makes no sense. That is, unless it’s in the movie Synchronic, which comes to theaters this weekend and VOD in January. In the film … Continued
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Synchronic Tells a Dramatic Time Travel Story That Could Have Used More Time
Time travel is a drug and the results can be deadly. Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) and Jamie Dornan (50 Shades of Grey) star in the new sci-fi film Synchronic as two best friends, and New Orleans paramedics, who begin to notice kids dying in horrible, improbable ways. Stabbed through the chest with a sword, … Continued