I have every confidence in the The Avengers' ability to save the world. But working a brunch service? I'm not holding my breath.
Like most heroes of Greek legend, Peter Parker became endowed with superhuman gifts: He was turned into a demigod, rather like a Hercules with inferiority issues who accepts his lot and even rises above inner dread, finding courage out of confusion. Stan Lee deified the nerd and found how those who are considered fearful of life learn -- and even embrace -- fearlessness.
America likes action, and so does the world. The superhero phenomenon is an interesting development that may coincide with rampant coach potato-ism and screen-orientation. Especially as the feats are pretty much all CGI.
Usually, when it comes to pitting our favorite superheroes against each other, there's more emphasis on their fighting abilities than their bank accou...
When product placement goes wrong: Moviegoers who saw "The Amazing Spider-Man" were quite surprised to see Peter Parker using Bing, and have since tak...
After three films about Spider-Man guided by Sam Raimi, Webb takes over and takes off. The director of (500) Days of Summer uses all the visual and digital tools at his disposal, just as Raimi did -- except the tools are slicker, glossier, more digitally seamless than those long ago days of 2002.
The effects work here is the best in the entire run, with the seamless blending of CGI and practical as Spidey swings through New York blurring the line between the real and the illusory.
LOS ANGELES — The new Spider-Man has launched with the same midnight magic as the old one. "The Amazing Spider-Man" pulled in $7.5 million from...
Now that Spiderman is back in Hollywood, let's take a trip down memory lane at all of his amazing, spectacular forays into pop culture.
"The Amazing Spider-Man," as you know, is a complete reboot of the Spider-Man story, featuring an entirely different cast than the Sam Raimi series of...
Webb is best known for the L.A.-young-guy-romantic-angst manifesto (500) Days of Summer, and while he brings to The Amazing Spider-Man all the superhero sensation of the popular webslinger, there's also a tone a few shades truer to the life most people generally inhabit.
Every superhero needs a superpower -- and every super-fan needs a closet full of awesome merchandise. With "The Amazing Spider-Man" hitting theaters T...
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Next week, a new Spider-Man movie, titled, The Amazing Spider-Man will be available for your viewing pleasure in exchange for a somewhat unreasonabl...
Are you an adult human? Do you own a Spider-Man costume (store-bought or home-made)? Do you like cheeseburgers? Carl's Jr. and Hardee's have design...
She kissed Ryan Gosling in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," stole the show in 2011's "The Help" and dates her "Amazing Spider-Man" costar Andrew Garfield. S...
A starring role on a hit television series was not always a guarantee of riches, which is something Sally Field knows all too well. The Oscar-winni...
At the 2011 MTV Movie Awards, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Selena Gomez, Tom Felton, Nicki Minaj, Charlie Day, and more declared their feelings about hot...
Some students practically climb the walls waiting for the school year to end, but a group of engineering students from Utah State University prefers t...
"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain," reads the third commandment in the famous Ten! I thought of this when watching the Tony Awards las...
NEW YORK — A judge warned lawyers at the end of a two-hour hearing Friday that she may narrow the scope of a lawsuit stemming from the Broadway ...
"The Amazing Spider-Man" isn't coming out for another three months, but that doesn't mean "The Amazing Spider-Man" sequel can't get up and running. (N...
Move over Spider-Man: This Mwanza flat-headed rock agama lizard pictured below may give the beloved superhero a run for his money, both in terms of ab...
