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13 Thor-some things to know about Love and Thunder
All about the most muscly Thor yet, Natalie Portman’s turn with Mjolnir, and space sharks and goats.
NZ tickets for Thor: Love and Thunder now on sale
Taika Waititi reunites with star Chris Hemsworth to continue the Asgardian’s humble journey.
The Boys is still disgustingly entertaining but risks becoming the machine it’s mocking
As fun as it is, this third season poses a serious problem to the show’s identity.
The new Doctor Strange is a fun Sam Raimi movie but a weak MCU film
This is the worst example yet of an MCU film requiring you to have a lot of prior knowledge to understand what’s going on in it.
12 mad things to know about Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness
Nothing can prepare you for Doc Steve’s psychedelic descent into madness—but this list is at least going to try.
Retrospective: superhero series Legion was stranger than Doctor Strange and deeper than Moon Knight
Now streaming, this artsy series went for Kubrick psychedelia in its portrait of a schizophrenic mutant hero.
5 Marvel horror comics we want to see adapted into movies
Spooky heroes Morbius and Moon Knight are getting adapted, so here’s our picks for other fearsome MCU wannabes.
Marvel’s Morbius takes the idea of a superhero who sucks way too literally
The climax looks like a fight between two human-sized gas leaks.
With a brilliantly mopey R-Patz, The Batman is a bold new start for DC’s overrepresented hero
Robert Pattinson and Matt Reeves put the ‘graphic’ back in ‘graphic novel’, with this visually striking blockbuster.
Retrospective: Halle Berry’s Catwoman was a Razzie-winning cat-astrophe
The super-flop hasn’t aged well—unlike Berry herself and her hilarious Razzie acceptance speech.
Batty for The Batman: 13 things we know about R.Pattz’s new movie
All about the bat, the cat, the car, the bad guys, and the people behind it all.
The 50 biggest new movies arriving in 2022
Bookmark our monster list of the year’s most exciting releases: it’s gonna be a big one.
Big heroes on the small screen: the 5 best Marvel TV shows so far
Whether they’re on Netflix or Disney+, the MCU’s made-for-TV stories still manage to be cinematic.
The only thing eternal about Marvel’s pompous epic Eternals is its running time
It’s wild that director Chloé Zhao can go from Oscar-winning brilliance…to this, the tedious nadir of the MCU thus far.
John Cena kills for justice in full trailer for Peacemaker series, coming soon to NZ
Murder. Eagle hugs. Cena dancing in his grundies. This show has it all.
The many ways Zack Snyder’s Justice League improves upon the original
It shows how much the overall feel of a film can be affected by editing decisions.
Why The Boys is the best superhero property since Endgame
Two Kiwi screen legends lead a show that feels like a rebellious act of defiance.
Brightburn is a bloody watchable superhero/horror genre mash-up
What makes Brightburn tick is a tight focus, and an embrace of the grim and gory
Can’t watch all the Marvel films before Endgame? Just watch these 6 instead
We’ve turned a huge task into a do-able task.
Looking back on the insane parkour rocket launcher scene from Punisher: War Zone
Maria Lewis dives into this films’ most wild and memorable scenes.
