May 2007

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Film Review: Spider-Man 3 spins a convoluted web

Posted by Steve Biodrowski on 04 May 2007 | Tagged as: Reviews, Movies

Spider-Man 3 explores the superhero's dark side. 

The third SPIDER-MAN film is a bit like a web that’s been hanging in a dusty corner for years: it’s so weighted down with sticky bits and pieces of past detritus that it’s in danger of being ripped apart by the struggles of the new prey caught in the strands. Fortunately, the franchise strengths remain strong enough to support this wobbly structure: SPIDER-MAN 3 is still about ordinary people whose ordinary problems are complicated by the burderns of superherodom. Continue Reading »