The Pope’s Exorcist makes me hate Thor: Love and Thunder even more. This is the Russell Crowe we love, the one who’s always the best thing about a movie, who brings gravitas and complexity, joy and pain, doubt and resolve to the characters he plays. Casting him as Zeus was a masterstroke; for Ta...
Read MoreThor: Love and Thunder released in the theaters this weekend, marking the next movie in Marvel’s Phase 4 and bringing with it all the cheap and shallow comedy for which both Taika Waititi and the MCU are now known. The film raises some interesting questions but does not carry through on any of the...
Read MoreWhile it seemed to start late for a Marvel movie, the marketing push for Thor: Love and Thunder has rocketed forward since it began in mid-April. Today, to coincide with tickets for the God of Thunder’s next adventure going on sale, Marvel released a series – a seemingly unending series – of n...
Read MoreQuite possibly the most unnecessary sequel of all time is coming. Ridley Scott announced that after Kitbag, a movie documenting the rise and fall of Napoleon Bonaparte starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular Emperor of France, he will be moving forward with a sequel to the 2000 Academy Award-winning...
Read MoreNever have more fans been scared of a little lightning, as Time Out has revealed some details about Thor: Love and Thunder. Most of these were already either known or assumed: Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster will pick up the hammer and gain Thor’s powers while also somehow becoming the new Thor; C...
Read MoreThis’ll take the wind out of your sails. Deadline exclusively reports that 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th – and then 21st – Century Fox, till Disney bought it) is developing a new movie based on a series of novels by Patrick O’Brian. The books center on British Navy captain Jack Aubrey ...
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