Captain Marvel-ous debut for Brie Larson

Rating: 8/10 (8 March 2019)

There is an extra scene at the end of the end credits.
Released in 2019, Captain Marvel is the penultimate film of Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the 21st MCU film overall.
Starring Brie Larson as the title character this is the first MCU film to be solely headlined by a female superhero.
The early setting of this film is the Kree Empire and that earlier been the setting in Guardians of the Galaxy and has Djimon Hounsou as Korath and Lee Pace as Ronan the Accuser reprising their characters from that earlier film but Captain Marvel is set before Guardians of the Galaxy.
When Captain Marvel literally falls down to Earth it is in 1995 and she crashes inside a Blockbuster store.
Just after seeing Captain Marvel, came news that the last Blockbuster store in Perth, Australia is to be closed down.
This marked a sense of irony as Blockbuster in Captain Marvel is the kind of publicity that would have helped Blockbuster.
However Blockbuster had been mostly defunct due to advancing technology changing the way that people acquire home entertainment.
In the 1990s setting Samuel L Jackson played Nick Fury and Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson.
For Gregg he is back as Coulson in a MCU film since The Avengers in 2012 and of course in the meantime he had been playing Coulson by headlining the TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Overall a pretty enjoyable debut by Brie Larson as Captain Marvel and how it ties up with Avengers: Endgame the next MCU film which she will be a part of.
Captain Marvel touched upon the subject of refugees and at the same time I listened to Torchwood 5.8 Aliens Among Us: The Empty Hand which coincidentally also presented the subject of refugees.
The Torchwood episode has a character called Professor White who is more or less like Dr Lawson played by Annette Bening in Captain Marvel.
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