For those of you who took a look at my recent ranking of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you’ll note that my stance on Spider-Man: Homecoming softened considerably. So much so, that it cracked the top 10. And honestly, when I think about it, the Guardians Vol 2 to Homecoming to Ragnarok to Black Panther to […]
My MCU Rewatch: Doctor Strange and Spider-Man Homecoming – The Streets of New York
ALMOST DONE! DOCTOR STRANGE (2016) DID I FALL ASLEEP? No. DID I LIKE THE MUSIC? Didn’t do much for me. EDIT: As many have pointed out, this was also by the great Michael Giacchino, but it did not capture my attention as I was multi tasking. WHAT ELSE DID I NOTICE: I saw this twice […]
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING writers in negotiations to direct FLASHPOINT
A week ago, the Beat reported on the issues surrounding the planned Gambit solo feature, particularly how it had lost its third director in a row. WB’s efforts at pulling together a Flash project has run (ha, ha) into similar troubles. In 2016, after receiving a story treatment by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the […]
Spider-Man Homecoming box office falls quickly
I’m not exactly sure of the provenance of Forbes movie pundit Rob Cain so take the following with a grain of salt, but he points out that Spider-Man Homecoming had an awful Friday-to-Friday fall: The film was extremely well reviewed with a 93 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating, and well attended, with a $117 million domestic […]
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 7/12/17: Nessun Dorma
§ In the biz we call this “Hell Week” because you have to get everything done for con in JUST ONE WEEK. Emails at 1 am. Emails at 6 am. Corrections. Schedules. Powerpoints. 15 minutes of hold music. Caffeine, and lots of it. And, the ritual posting of the “San Diego Horror” gif from The […]
Spider-Man:Homecoming Finally Repairs a Giant Plot Hole…by Retcon
[spoilers ahead from Spider-Man: Homecoming] In one of the first scenes of Sony’s Spider-Man: Homecoming, we see a flashback to the Battle of Midtown[1] from the first Avengers movie. Adrian Toomes runs a crew engaged in disaster recovery, and is quickly put out of business as the U.S. Department of Damage Control exercises authority over […]
Spider-Man Homecoming VR experience: 5 minutes of something that needs to be a full game now.
Spider-Man: Homecoming finally lands in theaters this Friday. For whatever reason Sony decided to enlist Create VR to build a short but enjoyable Virtual Reality experience that lets you become Spider-Man… if Spider-Man could only move his upper body. We finally got around to going through all the trouble of putting together the PlayStation VR to […]
Review: Peter Parker finally grows out of that awkward phase in SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Does this latest Spider-Man outing live up to the quality of its fellow Marvel Studios brethren?
Dwayne McDuffie’s DAMAGE CONTROL Officially in MCU
It’s been known for some time that the Damage Control, a construction company set in the Marvel Universe specializing in property damaged related to superhuman conflicts, co-created by the late/great Dwayne McDuffie and Ernie Colón would be featured in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming film. However, whether the fictional company would have a significant role in […]
Donald Glover finally appears in the new SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING trailer
For some time now, fans have been wondering who actor/rapper Donald Glover was signed to play in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming. Prior to Tom Holland’s official casting as Peter Parker, fans clamored for Marvel to cast Glover as Miles Morales, an alternate version of the costumed web-slinger. In the latest trailer to the movie, which comes […]