What has made Peter Parker an enduring hero for the last sixty years is that he could be us. He is someone who has great highs and really low low , his sure hand maintains order, making certain everyone has their moment or two, starting with Ned (Jacob Batalon), who is shown to have mystic…
The smash box office hit , Spiders Unite⢠Weaving Jon Watt’s Web⢠2 Special Panels:⢠The Sinister Summit – Villains Panel: Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, and Jamie Foxx sit down for a roundtable discussion of their sinister characters.⢠A Meeting of the Spiders – Heroes Panel: The Heroic Spider heroes sit down for a roundtable…
Scènes à faire. Ever heard of it? It’s an interesting concept that writers and artists encounter when they work, although they may not know what it’s called. It’s French for “scene to be made” or “scene that must be done”. In practical terms, it refers to a scene in a creative work that’s pretty much…
To date, Marvel Studios has 16 released films in their shared universe. And while I have an affinity for all of them (truly, there isnât a bad one in the bunch) itâs fair now to see the cream rise to the top. Having just finished Spider-Man: Homecoming this past weekend â yes Iâm a suburban…
There’s so much to discuss. Like how much we love Tom Holland. Like how Zendaya was all over the marketing for a meh role in the actual movie. Like Donald Glover. Like how it’s so refreshing to have movie teenagers actually look & act like real teenagers. Like how Spiderman compares to Wonder Woman. And…
There needs to be a clear change in thesis statement when you reboot a film franchise. Something like “We need Batman to be more serious and less goofy” being the reason to bring Christopher Nolan in to restart the Caped Crusader, or “Star Trek doesn’t feel relatable to young people because we’ve been serving TNG…
This past weekend I saw Spider-Man Homecoming with my friend Chap. We went to the theater right by us early in the afternoon on Saturday. It was the best experience I’ve had seeing a Spider-Man movie in theaters since I saw Spider-Man 2 with fellow ComicMix writer Arthur Tebbel back in 2004. That was thirteen…
This week’s Entertainment Weekly (a “double issue” dated April 29/May 5, 2017) is its big “Summer Movie Preview” release, one that I usually really look forward to reading over my breakfast tea. But after doing that this very morning – which was yesterday by now – I realized that, in all honesty, there’s very little…
This week, the gods of the interwebs granted us a look at two dichotomous trailers for a pair of blockbuster comic book films soon to be hitting the mega-multi-plexes. Spider-Man: Homecoming and Justice League gave us somewhere around four-minutes total of titillating three-dimensional text, brief respites of prose, and the best action snippets CG could…
The movie’s out… now the real hard sell begins. The marketing. 10 Zen Monkeys has a list of the ten worst Spider-Man licensed products for this go around at the multiplex, many of which are destined to become very big discount sellers around February ’08. Here’s a sample: It’s the ultimate slipper — it’s half…
