Tagged Spider-Man

The Newest Spider-Man Film Is a Brand-New Day for Peter Parker and the MCU

Since Spider-Man: No Way Home, a film that managed to pull off the seemingly impossible feat of bringing together three generations of Spider-Man cinematic history, fans have been clamoring to see what was next for their favorite wall-crawler. Almost five years later, Tom Holland’s Spider-Man…

Nicholas Cage Swings Through 1930s New York in the Spectacular “Spider-Noir”

When I was a teenager, Nicholas Cage felt like a joke. Thanks to behind-the-scenes money troubles, he’d seemingly do anything for the right price, and it led him to some notoriously bad projects. There’s even an episode of Community about it, in which Abed takes a class called “Nicholas Cage:…

Sharing a Love of Music With My Toddler, One Geeky Song at a Time

Music has been a part of my toddler’s life since the day he was born—on our drive home from the hospital, we played lullaby versions of Queen and Panic! at the Disco. In the two years since then, my partner and I have never shied away from playing “our music” around him, whether at home…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is Must-Watch Superhero Cinema

As the first theatrical animated Spider-Man release, 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was an unforgettable experience. It dazzled with mind-blowing animation, played insightfully with the comic book lore, and had uproarious fun with the material. It also took itself seriously…

Morbius Is the Most Mundane of Marvel Movies

Morbius is another monster movie where a down-on-his-luck man encounters a strange force that transforms him into an antihero. Venom and its sequel, which exist in the same Sony universe, kind of worked because there was a chemistry between underdog reporter Eddie Brock and murderous alien Venom.…

No Way Home Delivers the Spider-Man Every Audience Deserves

Note: This review does not contain spoilers. Spider-Man: No Way Home could easily fall into the trap that so many other nostalgia-leaning retreads have fallen into. It’s certainly the way the film has been marketed, generating hype for how much previous Spider-Man movie lore will be tapped. Thankfully,…

How Does the MCU’s Fictional Multiverse Line Up with Real-World Science?

Over the past 10-plus years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has established multiple pillars from which its more fantastical elements stem. But—like its comic-book counterparts—the science we’ve seen depicted in these films is often indistinguishable from the magic we see from the universe’s…

The Ultimate Ranking of Spider-Man Feature Films

Everyone’s favorite webslinger has been gracing the pages of comic books since the early ’60s and TV screens since the ’70s, but it wasn’t until the 21st century that Spidey truly hit the big screen. Since 2002, there have been eight feature Spider-Man films, some good, some great, and…

Spider-Man: Far from Home Takes a Bold Swing into a New Phase

The Spider-Man films have a lot on their shoulders as the first Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise to get an installment post-Endgame. So, after bringing to a close one of the most successful and engaging superhero arcs that has been a constant boil for over a decade, where does Marvel go from here?…

5 of the Best Gaming Moments of 2018

Video games aren’t perfect. Bugs can break an immersive experience, 13-year-olds can wreck a 20-player kill streak, and one small line of code can disrupt an entire sequence that a developer worked for years to get just right. Video games aren’t perfect, but moments can be. When done…