Spider-Man

By Fred Krone I wanted to like Transformers, Michael Bay's newest, loudest, Hollywood romp. I collected the toys as a kid and to me they were the apex of childhood entertainment. It's a car. It's a robot. It's a car again? It's a cartoon show! What else could I ask for? Unfortunately the live-action movie get...

By Matt Paprocki Of course, Bruce Campbell would become a cult icon of cinema and Sam Raimi would take over the two (and debatably a third) excellent Spiderman films. Even with all the special effects wizardry of the those films, you can see on screen that every single crew member had a blast making Army of Da...

Cinematical Seven: Ways They Could Have Made 'Spider-Man 3' Better - Cinematical

By Mel Odom When I heard about InterWorld, the premise sounded truly exciting. Imagine a boy, Joey Harker, who could run into several of his alternate selves on parallel worlds. I figured immediately that the book had kind of a Sliders or Marvel Comics Exiles feel. I had a lot of hopes for the book.

By Chris Beaumont Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer seems to pick up the team in a real time span between the first film and now. The team has been doing the hero thing for awhile. They are heroes, but they have also become celebrities and media darlings. Much like in the comics, they do not conceal their id...

By Sean Paul Mahoney On the big screen, guys like Spider-Man, Shrek, and Jack Sparrow rule. On television, though, the ladies are all the rage this summer. In particular, wives. I sampled each of the programs hopping on the estrogen bandwagon and here’s what I came up with.

By Matt Paprocki While high production values give the game a polished feel, Spider-Man 3 is anything but. Glitches are a problem, and on top of everything else wrong, the title simply falls flat. Spider-Man should stick to Hollywood. Spider-Man 3 is rated T (Teen) by the ESRB for Animated Blood, Mild Langua...

By Diesel Super rock band Jet has now a second song for a Spider-Man soundtrack, “Falling Star”. Where not as speedy as other tunes, it has a nice mellow approach. “Pleased To Meet You” by Wolfmother was one of the better tracks on the disc. It’s your typical whiny distorted rock song and it is stuck in my h...

By Chris Beaumont All of this will change next week when we get the near 3 hours of pirates filling the cinemas, attempting to break the records again. I daresay, that more may be looking forward to this than were for Spider-Man 3. Spider-Man 3$29,022,026$282,379,65533228 Weeks Later$5,454,168$18,914,9...

By Rob Stickler J. Jonah Jameson, The Bugle Staff, Dr. Connors, Mr. Ditkovitch, Ursula, and Bruce Campbell all get beefier appearances than previously, while Aunt May seems a little poorly served. Stan Lee's obligatory appearance is perhaps a little more distracting than usual; 'Nuff said.

By Daniel Cummings Once again Tobey Maguire is brilliant as Peter Parker/Spiderman. In the film he manages to bring humour, emotion, and thanks to an alien entity that overtakes his costume, a darker side too. This leads to a side-splittingly funny scene as Parker turns from super geek to super cool as he danc...

By Chris Beaumont Peter Parker/Spider-Man Mary Jane Watson Since this would conceivably take place after the three existing films, there would really be no need to recast Uncle Ben, Harry Osborne, or Norman Osborne as this will focus on new villains. Now speaking of villains, we would need to get some new o...

By Chris Beaumont Except for emo-Peter, Tobey Maguire does another fine job of portraying our hero. Kirsten Dunst was a little whiny, but I liked her too. I could have done without the songs, but I can deal. James Franco gives some of his finest work as Harry. Then there is Topher Grace, who seemed like odd casting...

By Tall Writer Eddie Brock (Topher Grace, That 70s Show) is a photographer who competes with Peter for the Spidey spotlight at the Daily Bugle. Even Peter’s landlord and his daughter make an appearance while Raimi movie vet Bruce Campbell plays a French restaurant maître d’.

By Chris Beaumont Christopher Beaumont spends much of his time writing about entertainment when he isn't sitting in a movie theater. He is known around the office as the "Movie Guy" and is always ready to talk about his favorite form of entertainment and offer up recommendations. Interests include science...

By Kaonashi Spider-Man 3 starts off on a different note than its predecessor. Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is finally living the good life. He's at the top of his class at college, he and his girlfriend, Broadway actress Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) are madly in love and doing well, and best of all, t...

By Brandon Valentine Into the bargain, Eddie Brock (Topher Grace) looks to one-up Peter Parker as the Daily Bugle’s photographer, and in the process, Brock becomes Venom. Moreover, Mary Jane loses sight of Peter’s commitment. With so much trouble headed Peter’s way, he must conquer his greatest threat yet an...

By General Disdain As for emphasis, there is way too much of it when spotlighting the Mary Jane Watson/Peter Parker relationship - so much, I wanted to puke. I'm all for humanizing Spider-Man and making him more accessible, however, he comes off looking like a complete pussy. Time and again the director (Sam R...

By Patrick Cossel Stunning visuals literally jump off the pages as readers flip through "The Amazing Spider-Man Pop-Up" book. Released as the forerunner in the four book, True Believers Retro Character Collection from Marvel Comics and Candlewick Press, Spider-Man and his famous villains leap to life...

By El Bicho And, why oh why, couldn’t Harry have been a Goblin? Making him something out of the Ultimate Marvel Universe again reeks of producer interference; especially considering the fact that we are shown an alternate Goblin mask during Harry’s introduction. What could have been a brain-melti...

By Iloz Zoc Spider-Man 3 is the movie Superman Returns should have been. Take one iconic American comic book character, stir in lots of terrific, dizzying action, add a measure of relationship woes, sprinkle a dash of rocky romance, and what Sam Raimi cooks up, for the third time in a row, is a movie tha...

By Sibin Mohan Topher Grace (That 70s Show) plays his rival for a job at the Daily Bugle and subsequently becomes infected by Venom. Suffice to say that acting was never his strong point. He seems to be just another Tobey Maguire - able to play the dorky goof-off in the sitcom but not quite making the cut for th...

By Chris Beaumont Spider-Man 3. (2007, 140 minutes, PG-13, science fiction, trailer) Here is the one we've all been waiting for, but has it been worth that wait? The teaser trailer was a phenomenal piece of work, the following trailer was also good. Hopefully, it will pay off, but the early word has tempered m...

By Chris McVetta Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once proclaimed that Spider-Man 2 was "the best superhero movie of all time!"  Then why not make it a tradition and bring some of the production crew back from S-M 3 to Cleveland and film the backdrop for Spider-Man 4 in "the best location in the nation."

By TV and Film Guy And that is the real problem with the movie. The Harry Osborn/Peter Parker story could be a full movie, the Flint Marko/Peter Parker story could be a full movie, the Peter Parker/Venom story could be a full movie. Yet, here they all are, rolled up into one huge, overstuffed film. There is too mu...

By Tall Writer The amazing Spidey will contend with Sandman, played by Thomas Haden Church (Wings, Sideways), Venom, played by Topher Grace (That '70s Show), and former best friend Harry Osborne, played by James Franco (Flyboys). Audiences get a full story (140 minutes) including Gwen Stacy, played...

By Don Hall Back in 1978, I was a pimply-faced seventh-grader who loved comic books. While 1977's Star Wars was an absolute milestone for me (and about a billion other twelve-year-old boys), it was Richard Donner's Superman: The Movie that was the more pivotal event. While Superman was never my favor...

By Chris Beaumont Comic book adaptations can be split into two categories. There are the ones that the studio pushes as big A-list releases, like Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk, Batman, and Superman, then there are the B-listers, which so far includes Daredevil, Elektra, and now Ghost Rider. This is not a reflect...

By Vichus Smith In the end of issue 5, Iron Man and Spider-Man had a nasty breakup that led to Spidey getting his new Tony Stark-issued costume ripped off of him. Before pro-registration villains could attack him further, he was saved by the most well-armed vigilante in all comics, the Punisher.

By Aaron Auzins The earliest builds of the Playstation 3 controllers (yeah, the Batarangs – had to keep up the superhero theme to go along with the Spider-Man font for the PS3 logo, you know) were evidently scrapped as Sony presented … the Playstation ...

By Nik Dirga Plenty of art from 40 years of Marvel Comics is used, with a crisp, elegant design that is information-packed but rarely cluttered. Major characters such as Spider-Man or Daredevil receive full-page spreads, while hundreds of others are ...