As a superhero movie, The Fantastic Four: First Steps has a stale feeling that gets less and less interesting as it progresses before winding up as the usual superhero routine despite the best efforts of its talented cast, notes Mayur Sanap.
The yet-to-tiled film will go on floors at the end of this year!
'Harshvardhan Kapoor will go on to become one of the finest Indian actors of this generation,' predicts Sreehari Nair. 'In Bhavesh Joshi, Kapoor treats the movie like a box and tries to break out of it.' 'It's magic to watch a young actor like Kapoor achieve intensity without overextending himself; he can hold a frame while merely being in it.'
Joginder Tuteja lists our theatrical entertainment for the month.
Comic Con India resumed after a two-year COVID-19 break.
...And that's a very good thing, feels Sukanya Verma.
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 makes you laugh, cheer, whistle and weep along with your favourite superheroes, applauds Mayur Sanap.
Amyra, Aahana holiday... Disha wraps up a film... Akhil shows off his muscles...
Akshay can take solace from the fact that Ram Setu will emerge his biggest grosser amongst all his theatrical releases of 2022.
'There were 3,400 VFX shots, which made up 80% of the run time, amounting to 125 minutes of its total 156 minutes run time.'
Black Adam's true superpower is Dwayne Johnson's likeability. He's good even when he's bad, observes Sukanya Verma. Black Adam Review
'I think I started listening to them more when I watched 'Thor'. I listened to them even a few years ago, and I watched 'Thor' in Australia.'
There is a kind of audacious large-scale experimentation which is admirable, even if the novelty and potential of the idea are not fully realised, notes Deepa Gahlot.
'When I came into the process, there was a treatment and in the treatment, there are always stories and parts that take place in Mumbai.'
'Some people believe that guys with muscles don't have a sense of humour.' 'We wanted to prove them wrong.'
The Amazing Spiderman 2 starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone opens in Indian theatres on May 2.
Homecoming fuses the kinky-swiftness of the original superhero movies with the silly concerns of a 2017's teenager, points out Sreehari Nair.
Here's a look at star arrivals for the Krrish 3 screening.
Not only the plot but a lot of characters are similar to most of the superhero movies that have released in Hollywood.
These and other pressing questions are posed to you, dear reader, so you can decide which hero best deserves to rule November.
According to reports, Warner Bros is actively pursuing Cooper to play The Flash in its long-awaited superhero team-up film, reported Digital Spy.
Shahana Goswami, who stars with SRK in Ra.One, talks about the film.
Time was, celebrities who enjoyed geeky pastimes, such as comic books, video games, computer programming and gadgets, kept their proclivities hidden. These days, stars like Nicolas Cage and Rosario Dawson are letting their geek flag fly.
'If you can live your life with honesty and bravery, then that makes you a superhero.'
Late actor Health Ledger's Joker in the new Batman movie The Dark Knight has been dubbed as "best villain in a superhero movie of all time". The critics have also started backing Ledger for a posthumous Oscar in their reviews of the actor's last completed film, The Dark Knight.
Logan is a relentless and thrilling film, a film that takes things farther than you may imagine, writes Raja Sen.
Mani Ratnam is experimenting with a real-life historical in Ponniyin Selvan, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
Dear Friend is for those who idealised Dil Chahta Hai all out of proportion, and then warmed up to the premise that friendship could be a lot more complicated, and transient, observes Sreehari Nair.
Fed up of no personal life, Kirsten Dunst almost quit acting after filming Spider-Man 3. But the major cause of her depression was the poor response to Marie Antoinette, which was booed at the Cannes Film Festival.
'This is the first of (ideally) many superhero films that will appeal to those who aren't already besotted by the comics and the characters,' says Raja Sen after watching Captain America.
Superheroes have been embedded in our daily lives through comics and movies.
An executive living in Bengaluru has been identified has one of the biggest online recruiters of the terror group Islamic State, according the Britain's Channel 4 News.
It ends poorly, sure, and has some clumsy moments on the way, but as a children's film, A Flying Jatt goes a helluva lot further than those Krrish things, feels Raja Sen.
Rediff.com takes a peek at this fanboy magnet that brings in geeks from around the world.
How superhero movies fared at the turnstiles.