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More Raimi than Marvel; more WandaVision than Doctor Strange, Multiverse of Madness is as close to horror as the MCU is likely to get - Updated for 3D IMAX  

May sees Disney going back to the Star Wars well for its next big series, Amazon Prime brings in a contractor and Apple treats subscribers to the wonders of the prehistoric world.  

Updated 07-APR-2022 Amazon Prime - NO TIME TO DIE ADDED: It’s Amazon and Apple which grab the headlining shows and movies in April but all the streaming services feel like they’re taking a pause before unleashing their flagship series in early summer.  

With Moon Knight arriving on Disney+ Marvel tries something a little different, venturing a ways down the horror-comedy route, but getting off to a rather inauspicious start.  

Despite the Best Actress win for Jessica Chastain, her Tammy Faye’s a whole load of makeup and furious televangelism, with not a great deal to actually say.  

Coming in on a mini wave of thrillers which take their cues from the horrors of dating, Mimi Cave’s Fresh is a cut above most. But does it make a meal of its blend of grisly horror and dark comedy?  

Disney/Pixar's coming-of-age romp Turning Red gets off to an energetically great start, and looks and sounds great in 4K Dolby Vision.  

Due to launch in the US in 2022 and internationally in 2023, the additional subscription tier will include adverts to compensate for the lower monthly fee.  

Spielberg's immaculately orchestrated remake of the classic Romeo & Juliet riff, West Side Story, flopped at the Box Office but lands on Disney+ in Dolby Vision ahead of its disc release.  

Disney has officially announced that the Marvel Netflix shows which were recently pulled from the streaming service will, as fully expected, join the likes of Loki, Hawkeye and upcoming MCU series like Moon Knight and She-Hulk on Disney+ in territories around the globe.  

Another Fox production lands on Disney, and it's another low budget, high concept jobbie, but this time it kinda works.  

Wes Anderson's love letter to fantastical journalistic stories is an engaging triptych of colourful tales, but only one of them is really up to his enticingly quirky standards.  

UPDATED 01-MAR-2022: Marvel’s Moon Knight rises on Disney+, Picard minds his Ps and ‘Qs' on Amazon Prime Video and Samuel L. Jackson remembers to get serious on Apple TV+ with his latest drama.  

Disney+ rounds out the year with the opening episode of its latest Star Wars spin-off, as fan-favourite Boba Fett's past and future get fleshed out - UPDATED WITH FULL SEASON REVIEW  

Marvel's biggest misstep is like a pathetically melodramatic riff on Watchmen, with the 4K seeking to double down on its pointlessness by landing long after it's come to Disney Plus in 4KDV IMAX Enhanced, here boasting neither DV nor IMAX.  

A videotape, a disgruntled contractor with links to the porn industry, and the most iconic power couple of their time make for a solid period drama of nineties excess. But does Pam & Tommy have anything to say about the manipulative systems that shot its eponymous characters into infamy?  

Inexplicably getting a physical release AFTER being made available on Disney/Star, Ridley Scott's Rashomon-esque The Last Duel isn't even available on general 4K, with this Zavvi Exclusive Steelbook the only way to own it.  

UPDATED 25-JAN-2022: Disney+ goes all celebrity sex tape, Amazon said nothing and Apple has a solution for work / life balance.  

Spies and Samurai, Scorsese and the Spider-Verse, Strange and Sam Raimi - 2022 is shaping up to be stunning, but the real question is will Top Gun: Maverick finally get released?  

Star Trek, Indy, and Second Sight coming into their own, it's been a pretty spectacular year for 4K.  

Still reeling from the ongoing pandemic, cinema has come back with a bang arguably better than anybody could have expected, with a few strong Big Screen hitters, and plenty of heavyweight smaller support.  

Enjoying a perfectly-timed Christmas vibe, solid origin storytelling, charming wit and fun street-level action, Hailee Steinfeld's Hawkeye is a great end to an impressive year of MCU TV shows.  

An almost unparalleled year of unmissable TV. Audiences may still be navigating their return to the cinema but let's take a look at 10 reasons to stay home.  

UPDATED 13-Jan-2022 (Amazon Prime): The start of a new year can feel like a yawning chasm of existential panic as the wheel turns on another 365 days and we shuffle lemming-like closer to the edge… so what are the streaming giants going to do to make us feel a bit better? Well, rebooting Fraggle Rock’s a start!  

SharePlay is now available on the Disney+ streaming service for Apple TV, iPhone and iPad customers, enabling group watching and interaction among Apple users.  

A semi-fictional account of the horribly real Opioid Crisis that the US is still reeling from thirty years later that, while somewhat failing to land dramatically, wholly succeeds in helping understand and humanise the stories behind it.  

UPDATED 30-Nov-2021: Disney has a couple of Yuletide showstoppers, Amazon Prime’s output follows a suspiciously familiar pattern to last year while Apple prunes its end of year output.  

An almost overwhelmingly intimate look into one of popular music’s most iconic and infamous episodes, the break-up of The Beatles. Peter Jackson sifts through hundreds of hours of footage to present this superbly detailed and intricate look into three weeks that shook the world of popular music...  

Lin-Manuel Miranda continues his seemingly unstoppable reign with a fresh new Disney feature that hits all the right notes.  

Whilst Eternals flounders at the Big Screen, Marvel's ode to Wuxia, Shang-Chi, smashes down onto home formats, not only on 4K disc, but actually - arguably more impressively - in IMAX Enhanced 4KDV on Disney+.  

Coming in below analysts’ predictions, Disney’s hitherto resilient streaming service managed only 2.1 million new subscribers in the latest quarter.  

Disney is bringing 13 of its Marvel movies to the Disney+ streaming service in IMAX’s exclusive Enhanced Aspect Ratio for its Disney+ Day celebration on November 12th.  

Best Director Oscar winner Chloe Zhao’s much anticipated entry into the MCU is everything you imagined it would be. The good... and the not so good...  

UPDATED 28th OCT: Disney+ hits the not-so-terrible-twos and is now a streaming toddler as it celebrates its 2nd birthday, Amazon Prime sees the return of one of its most popular original series and Apple TV+ has an appointment with a shrink.  

Hisense is rolling out the Disney+ streaming service across its 2021 range of VIDAA powered TVs.  

One of Willis' rare nuanced performances, and Shyamalan's now increasingly rare gems, Unbreakable is an impressively atypical superhero thriller gifted a 4K release which struggles to top Disney+'s 4K DV/DA streaming version.  

UPDATED 28-Sep-2021: October sees the usual array of family friendly spooky goings on (Disney+) coupled with genuine horror and chills (Amazon Prime) as Halloween gets its annual foot in the door for video streaming services and content providers to go thematically darker.  

Disney's answer to Netflix's eclectic anime blend of Love, Death and Robots affords a bevy of colourful and varied Jedi-fuelled Star Wars tales.  

Part swan-song, part origin story - for not one but two characters - and all quirky family drama, Marvel's unsurprisingly action-packed Big Screen return enjoys a kooky blend of fun, thrilling exploits.  

Disney’s flagship direct-to-consumer streaming service, Disney+, is now available on compatible Panasonic TVs launched from 2017 onwards.