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He’s the best at what he does, and what he does isn’t very nice.

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Antony Starr, who plays Homelander on Amazon's The Boys, is set to star in Lionsgate's thriller Cobweb alongside Lizzy Caplan, Cleopatra Coleman and child actor Woody Norman, Collider has learned. Samuel Bodin (Marianne) will direct from a script by Chris Thomas Devlin that topped the 2018 Blood List and was voted to The Black List the same year. Roy Lee will produce under his Vertigo Entertainment banner along with Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver of Point Grey. Jon Berg will also serve as a producer on the project, which will be executive produced by Andrew Childs …

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While it’s hard for people to agree on anything nowadays, the one thing I’m sure about is everyone loves Antony Starr’s work as Homelander on the Amazon hit series The Boys. The way Starr can switch from his smiling Superman persona to someone with zero humanity that might kill you in in an instant is fantastic and he constantly makes you wonder what Homelander will do next. In The Boys Season 2, which premieres on Amazon this Friday, Homelander is dealt a surprise when a new hero, Stormfront (played by Aya Cash), joins the Seven. As you …

From showrunner Eric Kripke and based on the best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the eight-episode Amazon Prime Video original series The Boys (which has already been picked up for a second season) is an irreverent look at what happens when the popular and influential superheroes abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good, and often need someone to cover up all of their dirty deeds and secrets for them. But when Hughie (Jack Quaid) suffers a devastating loss as a result of one Supe’s recklessness, he becomes so outraged that he teams up …

Another masterclass in what to cut, and what to keep.