By now it’s no secret that I’m a huge comic book fan and, although I nitpick them while in theatre, I live fascinated with the comic-book-movie-adaptation genre….that’s a coined term right? I’m not just making stuff as I go along? Good

And of course, I’m once more feeling like the 11-year-old that spent more or less one hour waiting with his father queuing up to see Sam Raimi’s Spiderman all the way back in 2002….all thanks to the next step in the big marvel cinematic universe!….The infinity war!

For those not aware, most of Marvel’s latest movies (and some television shows) are part of the same world….well the same universe, or in other words the stories take place on roughly the same period and if something happens in New York in a movie will be part of the franchise lore from that point onward (take the Chitauri invasion from “Marvel’s The Avengers” that is later referenced in a myriad of instances throughout the other movies/shows).

More than anything this serves to either introduce new characters or hype up already known ones. The First Phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a perfect example, as it starts off by introducing the main Avengers and climaxes with the aforementioned movie…Marvel’s The Avengers”.

The second phase isn’t as good an example, but is still worth mentioning, apart from Ant-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, the second phase is dedicated to expand the lore and to create the tension needed for Civil War (that I keep forgetting that its a Captain America movie and not an Avengers movie).

This brings us to phase three, where things get REALLY exciting! As with most expanded universes (or long-running series of any kind), there are a lot of plot points and references that seem to come out of the blue, that seems to finally be paying off. You see apart from few stints in Thor and Thor 2 (and all of guardians of the galaxy), these adventures have been pretty grounded, but now those weird gems and mystical objects that have appeared all over the franchise (the infinity stones) take off into space, bringing new enemies and allies to battle against or with.

And well the next BIG chapter is almost upon us, Avengers: Infinity War, where our heroes will finally be facing that weird guy that popped into our mid-credit scene in 2012…THANOS!

Well, all of this is fine and dandy, but I promised both infinity war AND a countdown, so in preparation for the big Spring (?) blockbuster I’ll be watching and reviewing all of MCU’s (Marvel Cinematic Universe) on a weekly basis! You see I was browsing online when I stumbled upon this picture and decided to give it a shot!

Although…..I’m not following this “war Calendar” 100%, as I’ll review Black Panther after I see it in theatres!

Phase One:

Phase Two:

Iron Man 3 (2013) – 16th February

Thor: The Dark World (2013) – 23rd February

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) – 2nd March

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) – 9th March

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – 16th March

Ant-Man (2015) – 23rd March

Phase Three:

Captain America: Civil War (2016) – 30th March

Doctor Strange (2016) – 6th April (in the meantime you can check my first review of this movie here)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) – 13th April

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) – 20th April

Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – 27th April

Black Panther (2018) – 9th February