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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 still generally have to come around to some kind of thrill or emotional catharsis in the end — which...
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 behind it. Apparently, some cosmic event caused a superhero gene to be let loose on Earth, but — and th...
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 starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, the intense homebound horror mystery thriller Held starr...
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, via relativity and quantum mechanics, to the latest in string theory. Hopper StoneE/NETFLIX © 2021...