The MCU Doesn’t Have the Guts to Make Heroes Unlikeable – But Spider-Man 3 Did Joni Blyth July 1, 2019 Analysis, Features, Opinion We’re back in the MCU after the Endgame – and where better to start over than with Spidey? Everyone has their favourite Spider-Man, but Tom Holland’s iteration will certainly go down as one of the best...
Spider-Man: Far From Home – Review Tom Bond June 30, 2019 Reviews Spider-Man: Far From Home is the perfect film to follow the triumph and heartbreak of Avengers: Endgame, and deliver a fitting epilogue to Marvel’s Phase 3. It’s a teen film in every meaning of the word,...
Jake Gyllenhaal: The King is Dead? Chris Edwards April 2, 2019 Analysis, Features, Spotlight "What do you mean my reviews have 'fallen off'?", Jake Gyllenhaal’s art critic Morf Vandewalt snaps defensively in the latest entry into the actor’s impressive filmography, Velvet Buzzsaw. It’s been four...
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Review Jack Blackwell December 14, 2018 Reviews A new Spider-Man? Another one?! Scepticism about Into the Spider-Verse is more than understandable – after all, how many different versions of an arachno-powered youngster do we need? Spider-Verse answers...
Who’s the Best Spider-Man? Carmen Paddock December 11, 2018 Analysis, Debate, Features With Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse out tomorrow, audiences will be treated to a new version of a beloved, oft-portrayed superhero. Or more accurately, new versions – Miles Morales might be at the heart...
Team Talk – Venom Naomi Soanes October 8, 2018 Reviews Shrouded by rumours of production difficulties and creative differences in the cutting room, Ruben Fleischer’s iteration of Venom hit cinemas this week with the almost universally preconceived – perhaps...
Venom – Review Phil W. Bayles October 3, 2018 Reviews There's a line in Venom about a "turd in the wind" that seems tailor-made for angry critics. But to use it in a review would give the screenwriters too much credit. It would be easy to blame all the...
For Better or Worse: How Has Marvel Changed Cinema? James Andrews April 26, 2018 Analysis, Features, Opinion 10 years and 18 movies in, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has taken a superhuman grip of both the box office and modern popular culture – and, for now at least, it shows no signs of letting go. But...
Team Talk – Spider-Man: Homecoming David Brake July 9, 2017 Reviews In the past 15 years, we've had three Spider-Man franchises, and three web-slinging crusaders. With Spider-Man: Homecoming out this week, we get our youngest of them all in Tom Holland, with able support from...
Tom Holland: Entry Level Hollywood Carmen Paddock July 5, 2017 Analysis, Features, Spotlight Spider-Man’s third film series in 15 years kicks off on July 7 with Spider-Man: Homecoming. Unlike its predecessors, however, this will not be an origin story and fits into a much larger universe, with...
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man: An ORWAV Marathon Kambole Campbell July 4, 2017 Analysis, Features, One Off Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy. One good movie, one great movie, and one movie we don't talk about. Or is there more to it than that? In anticipation of the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Kambole and...
Spider-Man: Homecoming – Review Tom Bond June 29, 2017 Reviews Forget Tobey Maguire. Forget Andrew Garfield. Tom Holland is Spider-Man. He blows away all past competition with a star-making performance full of endearingly hyperactive charisma and a formidable screen...
Your Week In Film: Spider-Man, Nasty Women, Batgirl and more! Stephen O'Nion March 31, 2017 News 1. First Tomb Raider photos reveal no tombs. Sorry Although it's early days, with its release coming in March 2018, Warner Bros. has uploaded a few images of that infamous raider of tombs, Lara Croft. The...
Your Week In Film: Missions, Magic And Men Of The Spider Variety Stephen O'Nion November 11, 2016 News 1. Fox goes back to the drawing board for the X-Men franchise With Hugh Jackman bowing out of Wolverine duties after Logan and Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult all out...
Your Week In Film: Spielberg, Spidey, Spies, Sequel Splicing, and Strange Stephen O'Nion April 15, 2016 News 1. AMC Theatres reject text-friendly theatres, evil The CEO of AMC Theatres, Adam Aron, has admitted in an interview with Variety that the company have been looking to experiment with text-friendly cinemas...