Sometimes I divide a year up into little milestones so I have something to look forward to every couple of months or so.

This year there’s a nice offering of Marvel content that is spread out enough that it gives me a nice array of time markers.

In the summer there will be Fantastic Four, with Thunderbolts before that…and there are TV shows between now and then and even after that for me to look forward to.

And this week, right smack dab in the middle of these dreary winter months, we had Captain America: Brave New World.

For those of you who have not been following along for years, I came to the Marvel Cinematic Universe late.

We watched all of the movies as a family together leading up to Endgame, and caught up while Endgame was barely still in theaters. (We ended up renting it to watch at home.)

So, we’ve been able to see a couple of Spider-Man movies in the theater, and a couple of others - Dr. Strange, Ant-Man, Black Panther…but this was the first Captain America movie we could see in a theatrical release.

I liked it.

I won’t do anything spoiler-y here. It was a good action movie.

I like Sam Wilson - that was my big takeaway immediately after I started re-watching ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier.’ So no surprise that I liked a movie that revolved around him.

But this felt more like Marvel fare than some of the other movies I didn’t love as much - like the most recent Ant-Man, in particular.

There was the introduction of new pivotal characters, there was the obligatory pop-in by a familiar character, there were new enemies, familiar settings…it was a lot of what I hope for out of these movies.

I mentioned this somewhere recently - While Marvel rewards you for watching, it doesn’t punish you for not watching - so there were nice, quick summaries of any background information you need. (So it’s not imperative to re-watch ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.’ It just gives you a little head start with some characters. The better re-watch is almost the first Hulk movie.) It was interesting, though, that while something from The Eternals plays a big role here, they didn’t really bring up that movie’s events a lot. I don’t know - I got the impression that disappointing movie might not be revisited.

I always wish I had seen those original movies when they first came out and how they all built up to the big events that culminated that first round of movie phases.

Watching this movie, I felt like I was in on the ground floor of a new round of quality Marvel movies.

The next release I’m looking forward to is the new Daredevil series, in just a couple of weeks.