Spider-Man: No Way Home: Powerful But Gimmicky
Spider-Man: No Way Home is the type of movie that could only exist in this new media environment. The draw is the spectacle of connecting reboots and pulling in actors to reprise long-gone roles.
By Brandon Scott on Apr 11th, 2022
Spider-Man: No Way Home is the type of movie that could only exist in this new media environment. The draw is the spectacle of connecting reboots and pulling in actors to reprise long-gone roles.
Directed by Marc Webb. Written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and James Pinkner. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Paul Giamatti, Embeth Davidtz, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore with Sally Field and Chris Cooper. PG-13, 142 minutes. The first Amazing Spider-Man was a serviceable, if not at all remarkable, adventure that set things…
By Carly Fjeld on Feb 17th, 2015
It looks as if Spider-Man will be making his way in a new web in the next few years. He’ll be dropping in on the Marvel Cinematic Universe after Sony Entertainment and Marvel have decided to play nice and work together, a result of the minimal success of The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Sony tried to…
Blockbuster franchises are hard to come by. When one comes along, studios will do all they can to hold onto their respective cash cows. The Spider-Man franchise proved to be as much in 2002 with the release of the mega-blockbuster Sam Raimi film Spider-Man. This success followed into 2004’s superior effort Spider-Man 2 (a film…