Hot Takes: Filthy Business, Love Stories and a Marvel Film Fest

The Marvel Studios Film Festival will feature all your favourite superheroes.

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If the International Film Festival was a touch too cerebral for your viewing pleasure, the Marvel Studios Film Festival may be more to your liking. Starting this Saturday and running every weekend until September 22 at selected Hoyts cinemas, the movie marathon will feature all of Marvel's biggest hits from the past decade - from Iron Man through to Ant-Man and the Wasp. See all your favourite superheroes back on the big screen for just $10. Tickets are limited so make sure you book in advance.

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Filthy Business is playing now at the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

Auckland Theatre Company's latest production Filthy Business should probably come with a warning about filthy language. Set in London's East End, it's only fitting the play comes with its fair share of colourful language. It's also a highly entertaining and bittersweet tale of familial love and obligation. Former Shorty star Jennifer Ludlam is excellent as the formidable matriarch Yetta, leading an accomplished cast of Kiwi actors. On now until next Wednesday at the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

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Love Stories with Dolly Alderton is essential listening.

With the Northern Hemisphere basking in the lazy days of August heat, several of my go-to podcasts are on summer hiatus. The result is I've been casting my net a little more widely to discover some new (or rather new-to-me) gems. One of those is How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, which sees the British journalist speak to other successful Brits about their biggest failures. I'm also enjoying Love Stories with Dolly Alderton, which is not nearly as sweet and saccharine as the name suggests.