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The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Post author By Mark A. Lester
Post date July 29, 2025
4 Comments on The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the first MCU entry in some time where prior knowledge of previous films/TV Shows is not entirely needed.

Admittedly, I was thrown off at the start when I found out the setting was Earth-828, which is not the main earth from the prior MCU films (that was…let me check…oh right, Earth-616). This is an interesting approach, since the Fantastic Four are, as far as I can tell, behind only Spider-Man and the X-Men when it comes to the most prominent of Marvel characters.

Tags Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Fantastic Four, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner, Matt Shakman, MCU, Movie Reviews, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, Pedro Pascal, PG-13, Ralph Ineson, Rated PG-13, The Fantastic Four, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Vanessa Kirby

3 1/2 Stars

Materialists (2025)

I won’t lie and pretend I know the history of online dating apps, but I am pretty sure that the last 15-20 years or so are when they began to explode in popularity (two of my brothers met their wives that way).

The thing is, I can not think of every coming across anyone in my life who used an in person match making service like the one shown in Materialists. Still, that is focus taken by writer/director Celine Song (who, I have learned, was once a match maker herself for a few months before becoming a film maker).

Tags 2025, Celine Song, Chris Evans, Comedy, Dakota Johnson, Drama, Madame Webb, Materialists, Past Lives, Pedro Pascal, R, Rated R, Romance