the kino park

     one of the more dynamic images in Thunderbolts* * this review includes non-specific spoilers for the film*      Perhaps it is surprising, if tragically still not a saving grace, that the first Marvel movie in several years to actually somewhat get me, if not to the theater then at least to press play, features its characters grappling to reconcile “nothingness.” In the six plus years that have somehow elapsed since Avengers: Endgame , it has become a conventional take that the once mighty Marvel Studios has lost its way, however, as can happen, sometimes convention is accurate. Even allowing for the odd glimmer of life, the (seemingly) endless onslaught of Marvel properties of the past few years have by and large verged from outright unwatchable to merely poorly made. Diagnoses for these conditions have come from everywhere and everyone, perhaps even all at once, and while I readily admit that I held on longer than some, quitting somewhere around Moon ...