Shallow, uninspired and indulgently inconsequential, WHAT IF…THOR WERE AN ONLY CHILD? takes our favourite Asgardian and amplifies the oafish arrogance we only briefly glimpsed in the movie to the point where you have to wonder how in the Nine Realms he’s still worthy of Mjolnir. When his parents take separate vacations, Thor decides to use his unsupervised time to head to Midgard to part-ay. P,…

*SPOILERS, MAYBE?* There’s a lot to take in, in the first episode of LOKI, Disney+’s latest Marvel Cinematic Universe offering. While leaning fully into the multiverse shenanigans of AVENGERS: ENDGAME, GLORIOUS PURPOSE nevertheless reaches all the way back to 2012’s AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (as visited in Endgame) to continue the story of Loki Laufeyson. Apprehended by the Time Variance Authority,…

Veteran director Michael Mann’s latest takes the charismatic screen presence of Chris Hemsworth and the white-hot topicality of computer hacking and combines them into “Blackhat”, a muddled and painfully dull misfire that sacrifices drama and spectacle in favour of technical accuracy. When a Chinese Nuclear Power Station is subject to a hacking attack which destroys its cooling systems and…

For a franchise which has often been plagued with a sense of déjà vu (indeed its first sequel was an almost note for note remake of the first film and its second was themed around the redoing historic events), the most disappointing aspect of “Men In Black: International” is how familiar it all feels, despite the so-hot-right-now re-pairing of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth.

Having seen the…

Eleven years.

Twenty-one movies.

All leading up to this.

In the wake of Thanos’ victory, the remaining Avengers regroup to figure out how to live up to their name. But there are no easy paths to setting things right and its only through the unexpected return of Ant-Man that an opportunity presents itself – one daring, desperate way to undo what was done.

“Avengers: Endgame” does everything it…

“Bad Times At The El Royale” sees “Cabin In The Woods” writer/ director Drew Goddard indulging his inner Tarantino as he sets up this lurid, pulpy neo-noir tale of deceit, desperation and death in a faded motel, still trading on its glamorous past and novelty location.

In 1959, a man arrives at the El Royale hotel to bury a bag of money under the floor of one of the rooms only to be shot dead by…

After an disastrous assault on Jotunheim, the home of the Frost Giants, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is banished by Odin (Anthony Hopkins) for his recklessness. Exiled to Earth while his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) stages a coup, Thor’s only chance of returning to Asgard is to prove himself worthy to wield the enchanted hammer Mjölnir which remains immovably embedded in a New Mexico crater. My first…

So, is “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” a prequel or a sequel? In truth, it’s a bit of both, forming a wraparound tale which actually turns the original film into the dull middle chapter of a decent fantasy trilogy. “Winter’s War” takes us back to the beginnings of the Evil Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron) and we see her power and kingdom grow while her little sister Freya (Emily Blunt) yearns for a…

If you created a Venn diagram of the casts of “Harry Potter”, “Game Of Thrones”, “Peaky Blinders” and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the sweet spot right in the middle would read “In The Heart Of The Sea”. Ron Howard’s latest offering is a star-studded retelling of the true story of the whaling ship Essex, which inspired the legendary novel ‘Moby Dick’. The story of the Essex’s ill-fated voyage…

It’s strange to think that it’s nearly been a year since we last visited the main Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, we had the awesome cosmic sidestep of “Guardians Of The Galaxy” but (for now) that remains distanced from the main action, here on Earth. Last time we met (some) of our heroes in “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, they had just brought down a Hydra-compromised S.H.I.E.L.D. and…

Veteran director Michael Mann’s latest takes the charismatic screen presence of Chris Hemsworth and the white hot topicality of computer hacking and combines them into a muddled and painfully dull misfire that sacrifices drama and spectacle in favour of technical accuracy.

When a Chinese Nuclear Power Station is subject to a hacking attack which destroys its cooling systems and nearly causes a…