Marvel's Mightiest Heroes are Divided in 'Captain America: Civil War' Teaser

It's the trailer that broke the internet (next to Star Wars)! Marvel fans have been clamoring for any footage they could get for the next installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As usual, Marvel has kept everything close to the vest and not giving anything away.

When we last left Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Avengers: Age of Ultron, after saving the world once again from Ultron and the fallen city-state of Sokovia, Captain America assembled a new team of Avengers. Along with founding member Black Widow, War Machine, Scarlet Witch, Vision, and Falcon made up the new team to defend the world. Once the titles were revealed for Phase 3 of the MCU, Captain America's next installment would bring a famous story line to the silver screen.

First premiering on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, November 24th and seen by millions over and over since then, here is the first teaser trailer for Captain America: Civil War

After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, another international incident involving Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Avengers results in collateral damage, prompting politicians to form a system of accountability for our heroes. This form of political interference causes a rift, which results in fracturing the team into two opposing factions - one led by Captain America who wishes to operate without regulation, and one led by Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) who supports the government oversight. Meanwhile, they still must protect the world from a new enemy.

From early art work, trailer, and clues from the previous Avengers and Ant-Man films, Team Captain America consists of: Captain America, Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Sebastian Stan), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen), and Ant Man (Paul Rudd). This team faces off against Team Iron Man: Iron Man leading War Machine (Don Cheadle), Vision (Paul Bettany), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and new Marvel cast member Chadwick Boseman playing T'Challa/Black Panther.

From the preview, it seems we pick up after the post-credits scene of Ant-Man, where we see Cap and Falcon locate a trapped Bucky Barnes and he remembers his old friend. Unfortunately, Bucky is being hunted and Steve does everything he can to protect his old friend while dealing with the Sokovia Accords (the document taking the place of the original Registration Act from the comics). Iron Man seems to have been brought in to diffuse the situation but it doesn't stop Cap and leads to the former allies battling once another. By the end of the preview, with Cap feeling he had no other choice because Bucky is his friend and Tony stating so was he, this film could have serious impact on the Avengers.

We get a better look at the Black Panther's outfit and seeing him in action and it looks incredible. What we don't get a look at is Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and what role he could play. Knowing Marvel, they will keep that under wraps and not give anything away until the film is released. Personally, this looks more exciting than DC's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Captain America: Civil War will be released on May 6, 2016.

'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2' brings a satisfying conclusion to fans of both the book and film series.

After Harry Potter ended with the second part of Deathly Hallows in 2011, the throne of young adult novel adaptations awaited its next successor. In 2012, the first Hunger Games film came out into theaters. With its savage kill-or-be-killed premise by using children for public entertainment and powered by the performance of then unknown Jennifer Lawrence, it appeared that we found that next series set to take the throne. 

This year, the final film of the movie series has abandoned hope in the darkness as it comes to an conclusion. 

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 picks up immediately after Part 1, opening midscene like a bookmark was put on directly after the first part. Our heroine Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is bruised and broken after the failed assassination attempt by her onetime friend/fiance/fellow victor Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), whose mind has been warped to a paranoid and violent point by President Snow's Capitol subjects. The rebellion seems to be falling apart, the Districts turning on each other as they look to any form of leadership, and even Snow, physically, looks to be dwindling. These days, poisoning an insubordinate only brings the thinnest wisp of a smile. 

After what happened to Peeta, Katniss only sees one way to end this conflict: Snow needs to die. As long as Katniss lives to see another day, the Rebellion still has plans to succeed. Once she has recovered enough to strap on her longbow again, Katniss joins an all-star team of Tributes and soldiers on a march towards the Capitol. However, it's more of a propaganda team to broadcast their progress ahead of the front lines - until they discovered there are no "safe zones" in the Capitol: Buildings are booby-trapped, bullets are real, and the traps are lethal to anyone who triggers them. One such sequence was a terrifying battle scene where a slithering army of mutants with boiled-frog skin and barracuda teeth attacks, turning possible safe way into a death trap. 

With scenes like that, you have to wonder if this movie is really for its young adult-intended audience. Even though I've read the novel and I'm an adult, some of these scenes made me jump out of my seat. To be fair, author Suzanne Collins' source material always fell outside of the conventional YA genre as far as the kids killing kids for sport. But she provided a balanced moral universe, the underlying love story, and a female protagonist who is smart, resourceful, complicated, and self-determined. Lawrence, a Best Actress award later after the start of Hunger Games, continued to be the heart and soul of the series. Since the start of the series, Katniss seemed to be tailor-made for Lawrence; from Everdeen's humble hunting days in District 12 to winning the Games to becoming a symbol of rebellion to the emotional, broken but determined young woman that we encounter in Mockingjay Part 2. Jennifer Lawrence seems to understand the symbolic weight her character has been asked to carry

The first two films managed the challenge of visually presenting the books' violence without fully diving into the territory their target audience demo couldn't handle. What separates the first two films and the two-part Mockingjay finale is that Mockingjay strays too far into the darkness: With its political power struggles and immense body count, it felt more like an episode of Game of Thrones than a YA movie. The acting of the rest of the cast was great; all of them showing the emotion, even in character, that this was the end of a three year odyssey. It was an enthralling conclusion to the films that will leave the devoted fans happy.

Daniel Craig leaves a bigger tuxedo to fill with 'Spectre'

In the lead up to Spectre, we have all heard or read about Daniel Craig's comments about him being over the role that has made him a worldwide superstar. How much you believe him is up to you but judging from those statements, it feels as though Spectre is Daniel Craig's final mission as 007. I grew up in the age of Pierce Brosnan's 007: suave, charismatic, and full of one-liners. After Goldeneye, the franchise was going down with Brosnan closing out his time with over-the-top but boring Die Another Day. The franchise needed new life.

Enter Daniel Craig. Beginning with 2006's franchise reboot, Casino Royale, the actor single-handedly rescued the character from falling into Austin Powers territory and gave Bond a gritty, brooding, bruised-knuckle intensity. He peeled back the layers of the agent and made you feel the toll that so much killing takes on a man's soul, showing the character that is under the tuxedo. There is no doubt that Craig would be leaving the franchise in a better place than when he found it. If this is truly the end of Daniel Craig's 007, I think he left a worthy swan song.

Spectre picks up off the heels of Skyfall, which saw the death of Judi Dench's M and introducing a new generation of MI6 allies: Naomie Harris' Eve Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw's Q, and Ralph Fiennes' M. Spectre opens up with Bond in Mexico City during the Day of the Dead on a mission to kill an Italian terrorist. This fight leads to an incredible brawl mid-air in a helicopter that was thrilling to watch. It turns out that Bond's current mission has been tasked to him from beyond the grave with intel from his former superior, which leads Bond into the tentacles of the criminal organization SPECTRE. While Bond is off the reservation, a new head of British Intelligence code named C (Andrew Scott) threatens to eighty-six the double-0 program.

While his license to kill is being threatened, Bond is globe-trotting from Rome (where he has a steamy encounter with 'Bond Woman' Monica Bellucci) to the snowy Austrian Alps and Tangier, Bond is hunting Franz Oberhauser, a man who sponsored Bond's past adversaries (Le Chiffre, Mr. White, Silva). Played to sinister charisma by Christoph Waltz, Oberhauser has a tie to Bond's childhood and turns out to be a familiar character known to Bond aficionados (I won't spoil that for my readers). Along with Oberhauser, Bond must do battle with a formidable, Jaws-like hitman Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista). Bond is given an strong love interest in Dr. Madeleine Swann (Lea Seydoux), who proves she can handle her own and is Bond's equal. It's definitely a move away from the usual damsel in distress of Bond's past but I saw her as more of a plot device in the grand scheme.

Personally, Skyfall is the best Bond film of Daniel Craig's tenure as 007; possibly the best Bond film of all time. Like Craig's previous turns in the tux, Spectre is full of globetrotting action, a thousand count of opulence in the story, and the typical escapism of a Bond film. Compared to Skyfall, this sequel feels undercooked. While it serves its purpose as the culmination of Craig's four-film cycle, connecting all of his previous missions in one large web of villainy, it feels like it never paid off fully. Director Sam Mendes and the writers could have had a field day with Oberhauser's place in the 007 canon, but he feels like just another enemy bent on Freudian score-settling with the agent. I think it's possible that Skyfall set expectations that were too high for Spectre to match, much less top. While Craig's Bond deserves a better send off, you can't ignore all he has done. We can only hope for one more mission before a new agent is selected.