{"id":25059,"date":"2025-07-27T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=25059"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:07:13","slug":"thunderbolts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/thunderbolts\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolts*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We are the evidence and this is the shredder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thunderbolts*<\/strong>, released in 2025<\/p>\n<p>Yelena is doing jobs for Valentina, but she&#8217;s bored. Bucky is in Congress, but is not very good at talking to the press. Valentina is under investigation and could be impeached &#8212; of course, she did all the things that they think she did. Yelena goes to see her dad, Alexei, and says she&#8217;s thinking about quitting. Valentina asks Yelena to do one last job &#8212; prevent OXE Group&#8217;s vault from being robbed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is a sequel to various things including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/black-widow\/\"><strong>Black Widow<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier\/\"><strong>The Falcon and the Winter Soldier<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fun story about people who don&#8217;t normally work with others working with others. It&#8217;s about revisiting dark moments from your past.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike most superhero movies, the heroes defeat the villain in an interesting way.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Harbour, and Olga Kurylenko. Directed by Jake Schreier (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/robot-frank\/\"><strong>Robot &amp; Frank<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;We are the evidence and this is the shredder.&#8221; Thunderbolts*, released in 2025 Yelena is doing jobs for Valentina, but she&#8217;s bored. Bucky is in Congress, but is not very good at talking to the press. Valentina is under investigation and could be impeached &#8212; of course, she did all the things that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-25059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25059"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25218,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions\/25218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}