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Disney and Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok got the 2017 holiday movie season started in strong fashion, debuting with over $120 million as the Marvel Cinematic Universe continues to fill theaters. Additionally, STX's A Bad Moms Christmas brought in over $20 million for its five-day start, but it's the road ahead that will tell the full story as it hopes to play well into the holiday season. Overall, the top twelve delivered a combined $166 million, which is a massive improvement over last week but still falls short of the $183 million for the same weekend last year, which not only featured...

After the dreary Dark World, Marvel’s hairiest hero makes a thunderous comeback in the bright and very breezy Thor: Ragnarok. ndie director Taika Waititi may have seemed an odd choice for the Asgardian’s third solo movie and the 17th instalment in Marvel’s “Cinematic Universe” but it turns out the man behind Kiwi comedy Hunt For The Wilderpeople (my favourite film of 2016), is the comic book giant’s most inspired signing. If you’re making a film about a flaxen-haired, hammer-wielding god from outer space there’s no point keeping a straight face. And Waititi’s love of the ridiculous makes this the funniest...