Film of the Week — Thor: Ragnorak

The Marvel sausage factory here delivers one of its funniest episodes, thanks largely to the inspired decision to hire What We Do in the Shadows director Taika Waititi. Fully leaning into the Thor sub-universe’s inherent Flash Gordon-ness, this third film sees Thor and Loki’s long-lost sister Hela, the goddess of death, released from her spectral prison – don’t think about it too hard, the movie definitely doesn’t. She sets about bringing the Viking apocalypse of the title to Thor’s home world, but the real fun is seeing Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston flex their comic chops as they both find themselves exiled onto an alien world governed by Jeff Goldblum’s groovy space tyrant-cum-Ibiza lifer. You may not have known you needed Goldblum DJing as he presides over the torture of his alien underlings, but trust us – you do. Times