The Latest Breaking News from Thor

The new Marvel blockbuster is a family affair

To a large degree, modern blockbuster moviemaking has depended on the appeasement of fans to keep franchise juggernauts smoothly humming. But in making “Thor: Love and Thunder,” Taika Waititi had no interest in that. He approached the film from the opposite direction. What would actually make fans angry? “I wanted…

The last full Thor movie was the overstuffed 2017 “Thor: Ragnarok,” with the God of Thunder dealing with dueling brother and sister issues, the imminent destruction of his planet, a boozy sidekick, a huge dog, pal Hulk having a panic attack and the death of his father. It was Taika…

Consider me horny AND confused.

Only a few superhero franchises have made it to a fourth movie, and you can usually sum up how bad they are in less than a sentence each: George Clooney's bat-nipples in "Batman and Robin" (1997), Nuclear Man fighting Superman on the moon in "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace"…

Hafþór Björnsson built himself up to become the World’s Strongest Man—and a nerd-world icon—but with the highs came onerous lows, and now he’s reimagining what strong even means.

Out of all the cameo appearances in Thor: Love and Thunder, New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe has spectacularly stolen the show.

Fun but uneven, 'Thor: Love and Thunder' shows that even Marvel isn't sure what to do with Thor anymore.

Someone has got to put Thor out of his misery. That’s the setup of “Thor: Love and Thunder,” but it also becomes a larger existential question after taking in this middling installment, the latest version of “twee Thor” from co-writer and director Taika Waititi. While the Oscar-winning Kiwi darling’s “Thor:…