For the Disney+ subscribers among you, there are so many movies that will have convinced you to sign up. Perhaps you wanted a platform where you could watch every Star Wars film in one place. Or perhaps you wanted to dive into Disney’s awesome catalogue of animated classics. But there’s one movie I’m certain none of you signed up to watch. It’s not something the Mouse House produced, either. You see, one of the quirks of buying out Fox has been them taking responsibility for all of their great titles, as well as their dregs. And this falls firmly in the latter.
Hard though it is to appreciate now, 5 years ago Spider-Man was in something of a limbo. The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s disappointing box office performance caused Sony to rethink their plans for future movies, eventually reaching a deal with Marvel to reboot in the character in the MCU. That meant Andrew Garfield had to make way for a new face. 5 years yesterday we learnt who that new face would be – a fact the Spider-fandom (spiderlings? spiderpeople? whatever their denomination is) have been keen to celebrate. So here’s some of their best/sweetest reactions to Tom Holland's casting anniversary:
If you’ve been scrolling through the web today, you may have caught the surprising news that Michael Keaton is in talks to don Batman’s cowl once more, with multiple appearances in the DCEU lined up, starting with The Flash. You can get more on that here, but in this piece, we’ll be looking at a key line from the Deadline report that broke the story, concerning what Keaton’s role in the franchise might be.
The great thing about cinema is you'll never run out of cinema. OK, so that’s also true of music, literature, TV and just about any other entertainment medium that humanity has ever produced. But we’re talking about cinema and specifically, about the selection that’s arrived on Netflix in the last week. Indeed, there were quite a few new titles added over the past several days and the following are the highlights.
