Marvel's second Ms Marvel is sparkly and spunky, infusing heartfelt social and family situations - born out of relatable cultural constraints - with a little bit of superpowered mayhem.
UPDATED 02-JUN-2022: June appears to be the month of returning favourites with Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+ all seeing fan approved and critically rated shows coming back for second or third outings. It does mean though that, across the board, Ms. Marvel is the only real standout debutante.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
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
Spider-Man: No Way Home 4K Dolby Vision Blu-ray Review
by Cas Harlow
Like a live action Into the Spider-Verse, No Way Home blows the doors open to the multiverse and ties up over two decades of Spidey adventures, with Sony's 4K Dolby Vision and Atmos release as spectacular as the titular character(s).
Moon Knight (Disney+) Season 1 Premiere TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
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.
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.
What's new on UK streaming services for March 2022
by Andy Bassett
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.
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.
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?
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.
What's new on UK streaming services for January 2022
by Andy Bassett
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!
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 4K Blu-ray Review
by Cas Harlow
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+.
Disney+ launches IMAX Enhanced Marvel movie lineup
by Andy Bassett
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.
What's new on UK streaming services for November 2021
by Andy Bassett
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.
What's new on UK streaming services for October 2021
by Andy Bassett
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.
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.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Movie Review
by Mark Costello
Marvel shows that yet again, its genre jukebox is in full working order as Feige and co give us an effortlessly entertaining, honest-to-goodness, full on mythical wuxia fantasy...
What's new on UK streaming services for August 2021
by Andy Bassett
UPDATED 06-Aug-2021: Marvel launches its first Disney+ animated series, Prime Video takes us on an intimate journey with Val Kilmer and there are some returning favourites on Apple TV+.
UPDATED: 15-Jul-2021: July sees Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ all bring some highly anticipated content to UK TV streaming but it's Disney that is flexing hard in the locker room with two Premier Access blockbuster movies.
Marvel trailer reveals cinema release dates into 2023
by Andy Bassett
While it’s far from business as normal for everyone, cinemas around the world are starting to open their doors again and Marvel’s latest trailer reminds us all just what audiences have been missing.
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier (Disney+) Premiere TV Show Review
by Tom Davies
The second Marvel serial to come to Disney+, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier shows potential but little novelty in its first episode. UPDATED FOR THE COMPLETE SEASON
Disney gives Black Widow dual 9th July theatrical and streaming release
by Andy Bassett
Disney has rejigged the launches of a number of its high profile, upcoming movies resulting in changes for Black Widow and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
Falcon and the Winter Soldier Disney+'s most watched series premiere
by Andy Bassett
Disney has announced that the series premiere of its second Marvel TV series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been its most watched season debut, beating both WandaVision and The Mandalorian.
As expected, Disney confirms it has topped 100 million subscribers to its streaming service and also holds fast with Black Widow’s upcoming theatrical release.
What's new on Disney+ UK and Amazon Prime Video UK for March 2021
by Andy Bassett
UPDATED 26-Mar-2021: Disney and Amazon are bringing a couple of big gun movie releases to their streaming services for March in the form of Raya and the Last Dragon and Coming 2 America.
Updated 11-Feb-2021: A notable month for Disney+ UK sees the launch of the Hulu-esque Disney Star service on the streamer, opening up access to the more mature library of content that the House of Mouse is sitting on from the likes of 20th Century Studios, FX and ABC.
Updated 12-Jan-2021: There’s a double header of new Marvel releases to get things rolling for Disney+ in 2021 with WandaVision the first of the promised shows with MCU characters making the switch to the small-screen, long-form storytelling.
The success of this tremendous pre-Matrix superhero actioner basically kicked Marvel into high gear, with an effortlessly cool Wesley Snipes slicing and dicing with the edge of a blade, earning a superb native 4K release with one hell of a bass-laden Atmos track.
Agents of SHIELD Season 7 (Disney+) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Marvel's longest running TV property goes out with a bang, packing some superbly entertaining time-travel shenanigans into its 13-episode final run and signing off with some fitting, albeit bittersweet, closure.
LG Display, has announced an innovation partnership with Walt Disney Studios’ StudioLAB to develop the use of cutting edge OLED displays in the content production process.
It's the film that's pulling everyone back to the cinema! The film everyone's been waiting for! The most anticipated movie of the year!...What? Is something else out at the moment?
Finally, The Not-So-New Mutants. A time capsule for teen stars of yesteryear.
Disney Plus has proved an absolute hit for Walt’s media behemoth and since it’s initial rollout, subscribers have been flocking to view its precious horde of content (54 million and counting). However, just what has the streaming service got to offer in the way of new material for the coming month?
Avengers meets Star Wars for some Indy-flavoured full-throttle sci-fi-western-fantasy hi-jinks in the vein of Whedon’s Serenity. Still one of the biggest surprises in the MCU pantheon, Guardians finally goes 4K.