Captain Marvel catches up with everything that’s changed since the 1990s

Captain Marvel

She has her origin in the 1990s, goes away for a couple of decades then gets summoned back by a pager in time for Avengers: Endgame this week. That means that Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel has some catching up to do, including learning about the strange relationship between Instagram and food.

It’s an ad for Audi, but don’t let that stop you watching it.

Author

  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.