Category: Spider-Man
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Kraven The Hunter
3 outta 5 Kraven The Hunter is the latest, and potentially final, attempt by Sony Pictures to spin off various Spider-Man characters into their own franchise, without actually using the webbed wall-crawler himself. The Venom series has been consistently fun and wacky throughout all three installments, although it has been more mixed (to say politely)…
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Venom: The Last Dance
4 outta 5 Venom: The Last Dance is a fun entry into a comic book superhero series that has always been a bit askew. It offers more spectacle than the first film although it isn’t as full on crazy as the second film was. This movie strips out a few elements from the series that…
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021 review)
4 outta 5 Venom: Let There Be Carnage noticeably improves upon its predecessor by leaning into how ridiculously crazy the concept is. Tonally it bounces all over the place, much like how the lead character is bouncing off the walls arguing with himself. Somewhat surprisingly, there is a genuinely effective thematic core here about toxic…
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Venom (2018 review)
3 outta 5 Venom is a movie that could easily be called dumb, cheesy and corny. But that is not necessarily bad. Cheesy is still be enjoyable even as the horror movie serious elements clash mostly with the comedy elements. This is a bit strange because director Ruben Fleischer deftly mixed horror and comedy in…
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Madame Web
3 outta 5 Madame Web, the latest attempt by Sony pictures to spin-off multiple Spider-Man supporting characters into their own franchise is ok. Its not terrible or terrific. It has nifty moments, lots of pointless bits and is a tad too long even at under 2 hours. This is basically a supernatural vision of the…
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Best of 2023 Films
Honourable Mentions: Godzilla Minus One, Dream Scenario, Flash, Cocaine Bear, Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe, Asteroid City, Air, M3GAN, Next Goal Wins, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Evil Dead Rise, Sisu 10. The Creator Director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) creates a compelling narrative about humanity versus AI, and how the…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a fantastic sequel to the already fantastic Into the Spider-Verse. It takes the incredible animation style of the first film and evolves into several different visually lush and amazing looking universes. The film has huge dramatic beats and large-scale action, but it also remembers to keep things…
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Blog: Trippin’ ’round the Spider-Verse
I’ve been spinning the dial of the various Spider-Man animated series as a lead-up to Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (and reposted my Into the Spider-Verse review here). Mostly because a few of these versions (Unlimited and Spectacular) are in Across the Spider-Verse and with an infinite multiverse everything is canon, even if they don’t appear.…
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (’18 review)
5 outta 5 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a truly exuberant celebration of all things Spider-Man and showcasing innovative ways the animated format can collide with sequential comic art to make something really new and different. For all of the extradimensional bells and whistles and the cavalcade of deep cut Spider-Man continuity references it actually…
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Spider-Man 3 (’07 review)
4 out of 5 The original Spider-Man film is pretty good: a dramatic and stirring adaptation of Spidey’s origin for the 1st half of the movie, then it goes on autopilot for the 2nd half with somewhat bland superheroics. Its sequel, Spider-Man 2, is fantastic. The amount of abuse shoveled onto Peter Parker is inspired,…
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