Can superhero films regain the cultural relevance they once had, or does this year suggest there is no going back? It was just over a month into 2023 when audiences saw their first tentpole ...

Both Marvel and DC are, in other words, entering 2025 not all that unlike David Corenswet’s Clark Kent in the first Superman trailer: battered, but not completely dead. Looking ahead, there’s no doubt ...

Whether they’ll actually do so over the next 12 months ... truly mainstream superhero movie (the last one arguably being 2022’s The Batman). Marvel’s 2025 TV year seems, in other words ...