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Photo: Hopper Stone / Netflix There’s always been something faintly hilarious about superheroes, both the naked fantasy of abruptly gaining special abilities and becoming superior to everyone else, and the idea of celebrating that specialness by putting on a colorful, skintight suit and running around punching people. But pure superhero comedy has always been comparatively rare. Making fun of power fantasies undercuts them, and makes them less thrilling. And even full-on superhero comedies st...

Mick LaSalle April 9, 2021 Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer in the comedy “Thunder Force.” Photo: Hopper Stone, Associated Press The strengths and the weaknesses of “Thunder Force” are apparent from its first minutes: The strengths are Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer. The weaknesses are emotional phoniness and a tendency toward sentimentality. Still, the new Netflix comedy, out Friday, April 9, has a decent share of laughs and a shrewd science fiction premise behin...

NETFLIX © 2021 This week, Netflix released a bombshell announcement that the streaming giant had secured the exclusive U.S. rights to stream Sony Pictures’ upcoming slate of releases including Venom: There Will Be Carnage and the upcoming The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. As for new releases of films available to stream and rent at home, we’ve got the much-delayed and finally released Biggie Smalls murder thriller City of Lies, Netflix’s new superhero buddy comedy Thunder Force star...

31 March 2021 Watch/Listen Our Ludicrous Future occupies the minds of Joe Scott, Tim Dodd and Ben Sullins. Each week, they try to keep pace with how wild the world of tomorrow will be, from space exploration to new tech. Watch via YouTube or listen as a podcast. Read The God Equation is out there, says futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. His latest book is about the search for a “theory of everything”, travelling from Newton’s universal law of gravitation, ...

Sport by Jordan Gerrans Premium Content   The South Australians entered the Friday night contest in Cairns with a slim finals hope, needing to defeat the north Queensland side to keep their ambitions alive as well as having other results go their way. And, they failed at the first hurdle. They failed miserably. The Townsville lead was 29 early in the second term and the door was slammed shut on Adelaides finals hopes. The Lightning has now lost six of...