GETTING THERE For my wife’s birthday we decided to go to Iceland to try to see the Northern Lights. Since the Aurora Borealis are a natural phenomenon and there is no guarantee of seeing them we planned

Week 15 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch There's a degree of ambiguity about where this film fits on the timeline and how long a period it covers. However, slotting it in after Civil

Week 14 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch After the Giant-Size crossover of Civil War the timeline lets us focus on the two new characters it introduced, via a couple of spin-off sequels.

Week 13 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch Wow! This might be peak MCU. It manages to be the perfect blend of taking the subject matter seriously, but also just being a joy seeing filmmakers

Week 12 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch After the epic but crowded Avengers: Age of Ultron this (intentionally) narrows the focus to a small team, a smaller mission, and the smallest

Week 11 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch Since the climax of The Winter Soldier we've been off in space for Guardians 1 and 2, so it makes sense that on returning to Earth the Avengers

Week 10 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch We rejoin the motley crew two months after Guardians of the Galaxy (and four years before the events of Avengers: Infinity War). After the smash

Week 10 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch Although the Thor films led the way, the MCU now fully commits to the cosmic side of things as the chronological rewatch takes us to outer space

Week 9 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch Following the big Marvel Team-Up of The Avengers, we have seen how Tony Stark has been coping, and we've seen what Thor has been up to, so now

Week 8 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch I actually re-watched this not so long ago as prep for the release of Thor: Ragnarok so I wasn't that keen on watching it again so soon. Since

Week 7 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch A sweary prison-set epilogue to Iron Man 3 where we find Trevor Slattery enjoying his notoriety and being interviewed by a documentary film maker.

Week 7 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch After a break for the cinema release of Black Panther I am back to my Infinity War Re-Watch, picking up maybe six months after The Avengers and

Week 5 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch A fun little coda to The Avengers that also worked as a 'proof of concept' for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D TV show that followed. To Infinity: N/A

Week 5 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch I can't imagine ever not enjoying this film; especially as part of a chronological MCU rewatch. It just brings together the characters, events

Week 4 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch This short film fleshes out the characters of S.H.I.E.L.D Agents Sitwell and Coulson but it's main purpose is to retroactively explain and expand

Week 4 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch This oft-maligned chapter of the MCU works surprisingly well as part of a chronological re-watch. Although the story is mostly standalone there's

Week 3 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch Over several viewings I've grown to really love Thor's first solo film. As well as performing a crucial role in bringing full-on Fantasy into the

Week 3 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch This short film takes place after Agent Coulson leaves Tony Stark in Iron Man 2 and before he reaches the crater created by Thor's Hammer - as

'Shared Universes' are big business nowadays with the Marvel Cinematic Universe being the most well known and successful. However, back in 2012 DC started to create their own shared universe using TV shows

Week 2 of my Infinity War Preparation – 2018 MCU Re-Watch This gets a lot of hate and regularly ranks near the bottom of MCU lists but I think it is somewhat underrated. While it is definitely flawed,