‘Thunder Force’: A Perfect Storm Of Lame & Unfunny Superhero Comedy [Review]

Martin Compston has crushed fans by claiming Sunday's Line of Duty season finale could be the last ever episode.The hit BBC crime drama has been running for nine years, and has so far produced six seasons, gripping viewers as they try to work out who 'the fourth man' making up a corrupt group of police officers titled 'H' could be. But Martin, 36, who plays Detective Inspector Steve Arnott on the hit show, has hinted it may not return for a seventh season.

Fans of Big Little Lies will be thrilled to hear that series penned by the same author is coming to screens soon, and will also star Nicole Kidman.

EXCLUSIVE: Thunder Force, Netflix’s superhero action comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, is on pace to draw 52 million global views in its first 28 days.

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Guy Lodge Film CriticTo take one glance at Joaquim Calçada, you might expect him to have a story as tall as his hair. Pushing 70 years of age, zipped tightly into a leather bomber as glossy and black as his shellacked pompadour, he has the look of a grizzled Elvis impersonator, way adrift in small-town Portugal.

Have you ever noticed Chrissy Teigen seems to post more photos of Luna than she does of Miles?

Also Read: 'Thunder Force': How Exactly Did Tracy Get Her Powers?Now obviously, McCarthy and Bateman couldn’t eat actual raw chicken on set — that would be super gross and unsafe — so what they actually used were pears.

Thunder Force, a starring and , is currently the number-one movie on But that doesn’t mean everyone who streamed it loved it. In fact, it has viewers divided.

Melissa McCarthy‘s new movie Thunder Force is streaming now on Netflix and the film’s writer and director is someone very special to her… husband Ben Falcone!

Pom Klementieff is one of the stars of the new Netflix movie Thunder Force and you probably won’t recognize her from her best-known role!

If Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man. Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is.

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Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, have managed to put out not one but two movies during this global pandemic.

(Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s “Thunder Force.” Read on at your own risk.)“Thunder Force” has all the staples of a typical superhero movie — except when it comes to our heroes’ origin stories. There are no radioactive spiders or gamma radiation; just good old-fashioned science.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe “Airplane!” school of chock-full-of-jokes conceptual parody, with its fourth-wall-smashing stupido-smart goofiness, had a pretty impressive run.

Ben Falcone called me to say, 'Hey, do you wanna be in a superhero movie and play a supervillain,' what's the first question you ask?" Bobby Cannavale posits, then answers his own question: «What's my power? You gotta know what your power is.»Falcone has directed wife Melissa McCarthy as a reformed white-collar criminal, a middle-aged co-ed and the savior of all humanity from an apocalyptic A.I. Now, they're adding superhero to that list.

Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week.MOVIES— Against the odds, Melissa McCarthy and her husband, filmmaker Ben Falcone, have managed to put out two movies during the pandemic. Last November came HBO Max's “Superintelligence," about a regular woman (McCarthy) joined with a megalomaniacal artificial intelligence (voiced by James Corden).

Move over Michael Strahan, as Taraji P. Henson pulled off a hilarious April Fools Day prank on Octavia Spencer!