I’m still wrapping my head around the idea of a brand-friggin’-new Spider-Man origin story coming out only ten years after Sam Raimi‘s 2002 original, also an origin story. Boil them down and they’re more or less the same movie.
This is the second opener in a major franchise to be re-made and released within the same decade, the first being David Fincher‘s 2011 Dragon Tattoo reboot on the heels of the Niels Arden Oplev‘s 2009 original. And both from Sony Pictures, of course.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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