Humiliation

I didn’t expect Steve Martin to be funny. Sure, it was his skewwhiff sensibility that made The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains, LA Story and Bowfinger so deliriously inspired. And he was comedy’s first double-platinum-record-selling, stadium-touring megastar; he began wearing a white suit on stage only so that he could be seen by fans in the cheap seats several postcodes away. He crafted riotous slapstick crescendos in All of Me and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and displayed a literary flair even at his silliest. No one who has…

Today in the Marvel universe, we’re both looking back to last summer and also glancing into our crystal balls to this coming fall. First of all, it turns out Thor: Love and Thunder isn’t going to get any wiser with age as its anniversary has been spent suffering its worst humiliation yet. Elsewhere, Brie Larson‘s The Marvels fails to earn an accolade you’d think would be an easy win, thanks to some unexpectedly strong competition. Last but not least, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is up to its old tricks as it emerges on…

Well, it’s officially Christmas week, and Marvel have started the run-up to the big day with a huge treat for MCU lovers by bringing back one of the franchise’s most beloved and biggest breakout characters several months early. Meanwhile, Phase Four finds itself on the receiving end of fresh humiliation as Charlie Cox opens up about his true feelings on the wildly different Daredevil we got to see in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Let’s unwrap what today has got for us… Tom Hiddleston’s Loki return is an early Christmas…