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Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
What time is Andor out on Disney Plus? Release explained
Watch more of our videos on and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Disney has confirmed when the next batch of Andor episodes will be out 🚀 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Andor is back with more episodes this week. The final half of the season is set to begin on Disney Plus. But what time will Andor be out on streaming? The rebellion is gaining traction and the action will continue to ramp up in Andor. Disney Plus is set to release another batch of episodes in just a few hours. The acclaimed Star Wars show will begin the second half of its final season this week. The show has been releasing multiple episodes a week - and that is set to continue. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Diego Luna has returned to star as Cassian Andor in the show. But what time will the next episodes be out? What time is Andor out on Disney Plus this week? Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic in Andor season two | Disney Plus Unlike Netflix, Disney tends to release its original shows weekly - especially for properties like Star Wars and Marvels - instead of all in one go. It continues this week with three more episodes set to arrive on streaming. Andor's next batch of episodes will be released today (May 6) in America and tomorrow (May 7) in the UK and Europe. For US viewers, they will drop on the streaming service at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad While for British and European fans they will be released at 2am GMT/ 3am CET. So it might be an early start if you want to avoid spoilers. How many Andor episodes will come out this week? Andor is in its second and final season on Disney Plus and for the show, Disney has opted to release three episodes every week. This is a change from season one when just a single episode came out on most weeks. Fans can expect the 12 episodes to come out over the space of four weeks. It takes the show's total to 24 - the same as The Mandalorian. The second series is the final season of the show and will cover the period in the run up to the start of the 2016 film Rogue One. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at . It's free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers.
Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
What time is Andor out on Disney Plus? Release explained
Disney has confirmed when the next batch of Andor episodes will be out 🚀 Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Andor is back with more episodes this week. The final half of the season is set to begin on Disney Plus. But what time will Andor be out on streaming? The rebellion is gaining traction and the action will continue to ramp up in Andor. Disney Plus is set to release another batch of episodes in just a few hours. The acclaimed Star Wars show will begin the second half of its final season this week. The show has been releasing multiple episodes a week - and that is set to continue. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Diego Luna has returned to star as Cassian Andor in the show. But what time will the next episodes be out? What time is Andor out on Disney Plus this week? Ben Mendelsohn as Orson Krennic in Andor season two | Disney Plus Unlike Netflix, Disney tends to release its original shows weekly - especially for properties like Star Wars and Marvels - instead of all in one go. It continues this week with three more episodes set to arrive on streaming. Andor's next batch of episodes will be released today (May 6) in America and tomorrow (May 7) in the UK and Europe. For US viewers, they will drop on the streaming service at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad While for British and European fans they will be released at 2am GMT/ 3am CET. So it might be an early start if you want to avoid spoilers. How many Andor episodes will come out this week? Andor is in its second and final season on Disney Plus and for the show, Disney has opted to release three episodes every week. This is a change from season one when just a single episode came out on most weeks. Fans can expect the 12 episodes to come out over the space of four weeks. It takes the show's total to 24 - the same as The Mandalorian. The second series is the final season of the show and will cover the period in the run up to the start of the 2016 film Rogue One. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
The Star
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Star
'Thunderbolts' review: Brings the thunder to the MCU once again
Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Most comics-derived superhero movies really wouldn't be much of anything without buried rage, and what happens when it won't stay buried. Their stories' relentless emphasis on childhood trauma and the crippling psychological load carried by broken souls (heroes and villains both) – that's the whole show. With its adorable little asterisk in the title, Thunderbolts* goes further than most Marvels in its focus on psychological torment, mental health and, more broadly, a shared search for self-worth among a half-dozen also-rans who learn what it takes to be an A-team. Their sense of shame isn't played for laughs, though there are some. Mostly it's sincere. And it's more effective that way. Look! Up in the sky! It's a Super... er... person! 'A' stands for Avengers, among other things, and with the legendary Avengers AWOL for now (hence the asterisk in the title), there's a vacuum in need of filling. Targeted for elimination, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus returning for duty as U.S. intelligence weasel Valentina, the combatants of the title have their work cut out for them. Who can they trust? If not Valentina, taking a more central role this time, then who? Joining forces are Yelena/Black Widow (top-billed Florence Pugh); her gone-to-seed father Alexei/Red Guardian (David Harbour); the tetchy John Walker/Captain America (Wyatt Russell); Antonia/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko); the quicksilver invisible Ava/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen); and the Winter Soldier himself, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), whose entry into the Thunderbolts* storyline is most welcome. I look good in this suit, but it was a pain to get my metal arm in it. Their mission: To neutralise as well as rehabilitate the all-too-human lab experiment known as Bob, aka The Sentry, aka The Void, played by Lewis Pullman. He's Valentina's little project, more dangerous than anyone knows. The misfits scenario guiding Thunderbolts* is nothing new. Suicide Squad did it, Guardians Of The Galaxy does it, and this motley crew keeps the tradition alive. It works, even when the material's routine, because Pugh's forceful yet subtle characterisation of a heavy-hearted killing machine with an awful childhood feels like something's at stake. Call us the Suicide Squad again. We dare you. She and the reliably witty Harbour work well together, and while there's a certain generic-ness at work in the character roster – these insecure egotists are meant to be placeholders, with something to prove to themselves and the world – the actors keep the movie reasonably engaging before the effects take over. Even those are better than usual, for the record. That sounds weird when you're dealing with another US$200 million production budget commodity. Shouldn't they all look good, preferably in wildly different ways? It's a matter of simplicity and selectivity, not assault tactics. The poor, tormented newbie Bob has a superhero guise (The Sentry, fearsomely powerful, essentially all Avengers packed into one fella). but SuperBob has a dark side. Wait, what do you mean this isn't the Seinfeld reunion show? When The Void takes over, it's insidious psychological warfare, with The Void's victims suddenly, quieting disappearing into a massive black handprint. His targets must relive the worst guilt and shame they have known, whoever they are, wherever that shadow of anguish and rage may lead them. Sounds heavy, and it is. But at its best, the visualization of this part of Thunderbolts* feels like something relatively new and vivid. And there you have it. The 36th MCU movie, if you're interested. It's the most pretty-good one in a while. – Michael Phillips/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service
Chicago Tribune
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
‘Thunderbolts*' review: Tormented superheroes in the first pretty-good Marvel movie in a while
Most comics-derived superhero movies really wouldn't be much of anything without buried rage, and what happens when it won't stay buried. Their stories' relentless emphasis on childhood trauma and the crippling psychological load carried by broken souls (heroes and villains both) — that's the whole show. With its adorable little asterisk in the title, 'Thunderbolts*' goes further than most Marvels in its focus on psychological torment, mental health and, more broadly, a shared search for self-worth among a half-dozen also-rans who learn what it takes to be an A-team. Their sense of shame isn't played for laughs, though there are some. Mostly it's sincere. And it's more effective that way. 'A' stands for Avengers, among other things, and with the legendary Avengers AWOL for now (hence the asterisk in the title), there's a vacuum in need of filling. Targeted for elimination, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus returning for duty as U.S. intelligence weasel Valentina, the combatants of the title have their work cut out for them. Who can they trust? If not Valentina, taking a more central role this time, then who? Joining forces are Yelena/Black Widow (top-billed Florence Pugh); her gone-to-seed father Alexei/Red Guardian (David Harbour); the tetchy John Walker/Captain America (Wyatt Russell); Antonia/Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko); the quicksilver invisible Ava/Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen); and the Winter Soldier himself, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), whose entry into the 'Thunderbolts*' storyline is most welcome. Their mission: To neutralize as well as rehabilitate the all-too-human lab experiment known as Bob, aka The Sentry, aka The Void, played by Robert Pullman. He's Valentina's little project, more dangerous than anyone knows. The misfits scenario guiding 'Thunderbolts*' is nothing new. 'Suicide Squad' did it, 'Guardians of the Galaxy' does it, and this motley crew keeps the tradition alive. It works, even when the material's routine, because Pugh's forceful yet subtle characterization of a heavy-hearted killing machine with an awful childhood feels like something's at stake. She and the reliably witty Harbour work well together, and while there's a certain generic-ness at work in the character roster — these insecure egotists are meant to be placeholders, with something to prove to themselves and the world — the actors keep the movie reasonably engaging before the effects take over. Even those are better than usual, for the record. That sounds weird when you're dealing with another $200 million production budget commodity. Shouldn't they all look good, preferably in wildly different ways? It's a matter of simplicity and selectivity, not assault tactics. The poor, tormented newbie Bob has a superhero guise (The Sentry, fearsomely powerful, essentially all Avengers packed into one fella). but SuperBob has a dark side. When The Void takes over, it's insidious psychological warfare, with The Void's victims suddenly, quieting disappearing into a massive black handprint. His targets must relive the worst guilt and shame they have known, whoever they are, wherever that shadow of anguish and rage may lead them. Sounds heavy, and it is. But at its best, the visualization of this part of 'Thunderbolts*' feels like something relatively new and vivid. And there you have it. The 36th MCU movie, if you're interested. It's the most pretty-good one in a while. 'Thunderbolts*' — 3 stars (out of 4) MPA rating: PG-13 (for strong violence, language, thematic elements, and some suggestive and drug references) Running time: 2:06 How to watch: Premieres in theaters May 1 Michael Phillips is a Tribune critic.
Irish Times
29-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Thunderbolts* review: The least bad in the ‘Who the Bucky are these people?' trilogy of obscure MCU team-up flicks
Thunderbolts* Director : Jake Schreier Cert : 12A Starring : Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen Running Time : 2 hrs 7 mins If nothing else, the eccentrically punctuated Thunderbolts* can convincingly claim to be the least bad in the 'Who the Bucky are these people?' trilogy of obscure Marvel Cinematic Universe team-up flicks. Eternals (never heard of them) was soporific. The Marvels (yeah, beats me) was maybe the worst entry yet in the series. The new film does, at least, seem sure in its intentions. We have here an irreverent semi-comic romp that allows decent actors an opportunity to stretch their deltoids and test the limits of their vocal cords. It is a shame the project feels flimsier than the average TV-show pilot, but, after the catastrophe that was Captain America: Brave New World , one can celebrate something that at least has a middle between its beginning and its end. That opening has something to do with Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Valentina Allegra de Fontaine – an evil contessa and sometime director of the CIA – luring a ragbag of superpeople, each of whom knows something incriminating about her, to a remote bunker with a mind to mass eliminations. We know these people are 'antiheroes' as, unlike Superman or Mighty Mouse, their costumes are all a bit drab and muddy. Florence Pugh is, of course, Yelena Belova, current wearer of the Black Widow mantle. Hannah John-Kamen reprises her role in Ant-Man and the Wasp as a creature that can walk through walls. Wyatt Russell plays a cut-price Captain America with whom, apparently, I'd be more familiar if I'd bothered to watch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier on telly. READ MORE Anyway, the team escapes from de Fontaine's trap and embarks on a journey that, though sometimes irreverent, doesn't skirt the supposed 16-cert outrages of Deadpool & Wolverine . People do get shot dead here. Other people get punched in the face. But nobody says the F-word before they die. 'None of us can fly. We just punch and shoot,' one of the number says. This does downplay the supernatural element somewhat, but for the first hour or so the film is, indeed, in old-school action mode. Fight direction has a crunch that feels satisfyingly in debt to distant Asian influences. As we move into a deeply peculiar final act, attention turns to the most elaborate of de Fontaine's schemes. Lewis 'Son of Bill' Pullman plays an apparently harmless fellow named Bob who, unaccountably present in the opening bunker scenes, turns out to be the subject of ambitious experiments. Elaine out of Seinfeld seeks to turn him into a superbeing more powerful than all the Avengers combined. Because that's the sort of thing that happens in these films. Louis-Dreyfus has proper fun aping Hackman-era Lex Luthor as she taunts the team with her messianic ambitions. She, like most of the cast, has a true grasp of the project's absurdity. This makes the final slip into existential gloom all the more puzzling. I initially laughed at the notion that Bob moving a water glass with his mind alone might be a reference to Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. But the literal and metaphoric pall that later falls over New York suggests the nod may really be intentional. For all that, not least thanks to a final gag that points towards an unexpected future, Thunderbolts* works best as a jokey romp at home to tolerable quips amid mounting chaos. David Harbour , returning as Yelena's father figure, continues an agreeably diverting double act with Pugh. Both do more than merely drop the definite article in their comic exaggeration of Russian diffidence. Will it revive the uncertain fortunes of the MCU? Impossible to say. The Fantastic Four: First Steps, awaiting us in July, will truly test the brand's health. * The asterisk references a note on the poster that 'the Avengers are not available'. And maybe something else. Who knows? Thunderbolts* is in cinemas from Thursday, May 1st
