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Unknown Origins could and should have been so much better: a self-aware buddy cop movie with a crime-fighting duo investigating murders inspired by superhero origin stories. Fast, fun, and exciting with...

Spider-Man: Far From Home is the perfect film to follow the triumph and heartbreak of Avengers: Endgame, and deliver a fitting epilogue to Marvel’s Phase 3. It’s a teen film in every meaning of the word,...

There’s a whole subgenre of superhero comics that came about from asking ‘what if?’ As in, what if Batman was a vampire? What if the Avengers had been around in Elizabethan England? Now David...

As the "will they, won't they?" saga of the X-Men's migration into the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues following Disney's takeover of Fox, the mutant franchise returns for what could be the final go-around...

To be the DCEU's brightest, funniest film so far is a pretty low bar, but Shazam! clears it effortlessly. The story of a 14-year-old boy suddenly becoming endowed with superhuman powers is ripe with comedic...

Deadpool 2, the latest in Fox’s recent attempt to inject the superhero format with a little more blood and badmouthing, opened last week to a generally positive critical reception and the beginnings of what...

10 years and 18 movies in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has taken a superhuman grip of both the box office and modern popular culture – and, for now at least, it shows no signs of letting go. But...

What makes a great blockbuster? Action? Romance? Explosions? A huge budget? We’ve made it our mission to answer that question once and for all, ahead of our upcoming ORWAV blockbuster season. We’ll be...

Here it is, finally: a female-fronted superhero movie directed by a woman. But does Wonder Woman live up to its name or squander its landmark potential? Our very own Tom Bond believes DC have finally got...

It’s hugely satisfying that Wonder Woman marks the moment where DC got their act together enough to make an unequivocally good film. A leading female superhero has been a long time coming, and Gal Gadot and...

It may be a sad fact to many but the '90s are officially nostalgic now, and if ever there was a much-loved show from that decade crying out for a cinematic reboot, it's Power Rangers. Gone are the tight lycra...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZe6y8eaDA Superheroes, like the gods and myths of old that predate them, are steeped in formula and archetypes. Dom Fera understands this, because Adam, the protagonist...

1. Has Ben Affleck revealed the identity of the latest Batman villain? Yeah, probably. It sure looks like Batman has himself a new villain, and Jared Leto is nowhere to be seen. On Monday, the growl behind...

All statistics correct at time of writing. We were all a little worried for Josh Trank's embattled vision for Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and the Storm siblings, but nothing prepared us for this: already,...

Fantastic Four holds restraint, care and pride in the hands of its new-found origin story, but that seems to be all it cares about. As the story develops, real effort and exposition runs its course,...