It seems to me that, from time to time, we get the movie we need precisely when we need it. As the Eighties relentlessly shallowed out, Sigourney Weaver arrived in Aliens  to remind us that our mommies really did love us. During the first Trump Administration, we got back-to-back Avengers movies, reminding us that all-pervasive evil can truly be resisted. Now here we are, on the precipice of societal collapse, and we’ve never needed a feel-good movie more. Alas, Superman  alr

By SCOTT ROBINSON   She felt like she was floating – not just the absence of gravity, but a total break from the confines of her body. She felt… like a ghost? A spirit…   Her senses were inundated with a vivid swirl of living luminosity, each of dozens of hues fading into the next in a perpetual flow in every direction. She had been briefed, she knew it was pure hallucination – that the translation was instantaneous, and there wasn’t really anything for her senses to perceive

It seems to be a thing – with people younger than me, anyway – to refer to one’s circle of close peers as a ‘tribe’. I can’t bring myself...

Nerd Academy Dean Cain, who played the Man of Steel in the Nineties office rom-com Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , has...