A rewatch of Practical Magic finds a thin story saved by Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and a properly fun family dynamic. An easy 4 out of 5.

Rewatching Captain America Brave New World ahead of Avengers Doomsday, where the adamantium subplot finally looks like deliberate setup rather than filler.

Rewatching Deadpool and Wolverine before Avengers Doomsday, where the Fox handover and one Comic-Con announcement turned out to matter far more than the plot.

Rewatching The Marvels before Avengers Doomsday. Marvel put its first real step toward the X-Men crossover at the end of its least-watched film.

Betrayed By The Hero’s Party has a lovely cozy LitRPG concept and prose that reads like it came out of a machine. Both of those things are true at once.

Rewatching Loki season 2 before Avengers Doomsday. He is the reason the multiverse still exists, and nobody has mentioned him in three years.

Antdustrial Revolution swaps conquest for trade deals and world-building. A slower Chrysalis, and a bridge to whatever the fifth stratum turns into.

Rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before Avengers Doomsday, where staying out of the multiverse machinery turns out to be the reason it still works.

Rewatching Quantumania before Avengers Doomsday. It was built to launch a decade of Kang, that decade was cancelled, and the film is now a museum piece.

Rewatching Black Panther: Wakanda Forever before Avengers Doomsday. The treaty I disliked in 2022 turns out to be the most useful thing in the film.

Rewatching Thor: Love and Thunder before Avengers Doomsday. It set up three things in 2022 and four years later not one of them went anywhere.

Rewatching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness before Doomsday. It said incursion out loud in 2022 and nobody was really listening.

Rewatching Shang-Chi before Avengers Doomsday. Five years on, the rings are still broadcasting to something and nobody has ever said what.

Rewatching Loki season 1 before Avengers Doomsday. The doubts about Kang turned out to be shared by Marvel itself, and Sylvie’s choice reads very differently now.

A review of Through the Storm by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. Great Lynn material, but the middle book trades the alien plot for fame, bullying and doxing.

Rewatching WandaVision before Avengers Doomsday. A grief story with a hopeful ending turned out to be the first step toward the whole multiverse.

A review of Into the Real by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer. The AR gaming premise is fine, but the hidden-identity story underneath is the real reason to read it.

Rewatching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier before Avengers Doomsday. I called it muddled in 2021 and it was, but nearly every loose thread became a film.

Rewatching X-Men: Days of Future Past before Avengers Doomsday. It repaired the timeline in 2014 and the franchise ignored the repair within three years.

Starting a nine-month MCU rewatch before Avengers Doomsday with the four early Fox X-Men films, and the two actors who have been arguing since 2000.

A review of Mark of the Fool Book 2 by J.M. Clarke. Alex finds new ways around the Mark’s limits, and Claygon and Baelin remain the best things in it.