Flickering Myth

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Stan Lee was “very unhappy” with the 1970s The Amazing Spider-Man TV show

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Spider-Man has come a long way on screen. While everyone remembers Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s contributions, many may not recall that there was also a 1970’s The Amazing Spider-Man TV show starring actor Nicholas Hammond as the titular webslinger. The hour-long show ran for two seasons on CBS between 1977 and 1979. You can […]

The hero we deserve: Kevin Feige explains how he brought Spider-Man to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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When it was revealed that Spider-Man would finally be returning home to the MCU, it was met with applause, and a healthy dose of disbelief. How did Marvel do it? This was something that the Marvel fan-base had seemingly accepted as an impossibility. So what happened? Well, Kevin Feige happened. In a recent interview with […]

Looking Back at James Cameron’s Aborted Spider-Man Movie

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Henry Bevan looks back at what could have been with James Cameron’s Spider-Man…James Cameron’s Spider-Man. It’s a big What If..?, up there with Kubrick’s Napoleon and Jodorowsky’s Dune. It seems like the perfect match, pairing one of Hollywood’s best action directors with one of its most action-suited characters. Just imagine what Cameron would have done with […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home becomes Sony’s highest-grossing movie ever

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The Walt Disney Company has been dominating the box office this year, with five of the six movies to reach the $1 billion mark so far in 2019 coming from the Mouse House.However, the other – Spider-Man: Far From Home – has now just set a brand new record for Sony Pictures, with the MCU […]

Spider-Man: Far From Home to be re-released with new footage

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Sony Pictures will be re-releasing Spider-Man: Far From Home with four minutes of additional footage over Labor Day weekend, according to The Hollywood Reporter.This version of Spider-Man: Far From Home will hit theatres on Thursday 29th August in the United States and Canada, as well as being available in IMAX and other large formats in select locations. […]

Kevin Smith pleads with Sony to give Disney and Marvel what they want after Spider-Man split

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Kevin Smith isn’t taking the news of Spider-Man’s apparent departure from the MCU very well, pleading with Sony to make it right. News has broken that Spider-Man’s future in the MCU is in serious jeopardy as Marvel apparently wanted to renegotiate a few details and ensure Kevin Feige received the correct producer credits. Sony didn’t […]

Movie Review – Venom (2018)

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Venom, 2018.Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Jenny Slate, Scott Haze, Michelle Lee, Sope Aluko, Reid Scott, Sam Medina, Jared Bankens, Wayne Pére, and Woody Harrelson.SYNOPSIS:When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego “Venom” to save his life.Really, Sony and Marvel should […]

Blu-ray Review – Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

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Spider-Man: Far From Home, 2019.Directed by Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya, Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Jacob Batalon, Angourie Rice, Jon Favreau, Tony Revolori, Martin Starr, J.B. Smoove, Remy Hil, Numan Acar, Hemky Madera, Toni Garrn, and Marisa Tomei.SYNOPSIS:The post-Avengers: Endgame era of the MCU continues with Spider-Man: Far From Home, in […]

Insomniac reveals DLC details for Marvel’s Spider-Man PS4 game

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With a little over a week to go until the hotly-anticipated release of Marvel’s Spider-Man, Insomniac Games has announced details of the games DLC, titled ‘The City That Never Sleeps’.The DLC will be split across three separate packs – titled ‘The Heist’, ‘Turf Wars’ and ‘Silver Lining’, and will launch monthly beginning in October and […]