1. It being New Year's Eve, I suppose standard practice would be to give some kind of a retrospective of the year gone by or speculations of the one to come. But we have more important things to talk about today; namely Spider-Man! I'd thought I was done with the MCU, but the word-of-mouth on … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Thoughts on ‘No Way Home’
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Thoughts on ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
Past entries: -Iron Man -The Incredible Hulk -Iron Man 2 -Thor -Captain America: The First Avenger -The Avengers -Iron Man 3 -Thor: The Dark World -Captain America: The Winter Soldier -Guardians of the Galaxy -Avengers: Age of Ultron -Ant-Man -Captain America: Civil War -Doctor Strange -Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 After his scene-stealing introduction … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’
The Federalist Spider-Man
My latest article is up at The Federalist The show is also creative in how it handles the villains. Rather than an increasingly ridiculous series of accidents and coincidences, we have one accidental event (Electro), which directly leads to another (the electricity discharged during Electro’s rampage gives Doctor Connors’s Lizard formula an unexpected boost, sending it … Continue reading The Federalist Spider-Man