War is hell, but it might be even worse if you’re unarmed. That’s exactly how Desmond Doss ran into battle, and on purpose. A Virginia country boy and devout Seventh Day Adventist, Doss rescued nearly a hundred men in one of a nasty war’s nastiest patches of scorched earth without firing a shot. It’s through …
One of the worst things a superhero movie can do is gobble up its running time with multiple under-realized plots, included to cram in as many odds and ends of the source material as possible, that scramble to amount to something substantial in the final minutes. “The Amazing Spider-Man 2”—or “We Already Remade One Sam …
When doing press for comic book movies, directors and actors almost always claim that they counted themselves as diehard fans of the source material long before they signed on to the lucrative task of adapting it for the screen. While this is likely more often than not a lie, Mark Webb was clearly telling the …
The official trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man has arrived. The film is directed by (500) Days of Summer helmer Mark Webb, and stars Andrew Garfield as the titular wall crawler. It co-stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Dennis Leary, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The film marks a reboot for the Marvel franchise, the last incarnation …
It’s only Tuesday, but you can already chalk this up as a good week to be a fan of comic book films. Between the YouTube premiere of the Dark Knight Rises trailer last night and now the release of this, a gorgeous new poster for Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, so-called “geekgasms” can be heard all throughout the …
