Tag: Spider
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Oscars Predictions: Best Film Editing – ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead the Pack With Legendary Female Editors
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety senior awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect…
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Transformers And Winnie The Pooh Share A Certain Legendary Voice
To talk about Peter Cullen’s voice acting career is to take a trip through the last five decades of mainstream U.S. animation. The man has lent his voice to so many noteworthy cartoon series that it boggles the mind, including “Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo,” “The Smurfs,” “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends,” “Voltron: Defender of the Universe,”…
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Move Over ‘Unforgiven,’ This is the Best ‘90s Western
When you think of the Western genre, your mind immediately goes to names such as Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Sergio Leone, John Wayne, and Jimmy Stewart. But, what about Sam Raimi? The filmmaker, known for The Evil Dead, Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man trilogy, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness actually directed the best 1990s…
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson Thought He Was ‘Done’ with Blockbusters After Turning Down ‘Huge Franchises’
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stuck to his guns when selecting smaller films early in his career.The “Kick-Ass” breakout star revealed in an Esquire cover story that he turned down large franchise roles that “nobody knows about” to lead indies.“There was ‘Kick-Ass,’ and then there was ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Avengers,’ and all those things lined up for me. But…
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13 Underrated Movies Recommended by David Cronenberg
Body horror master David Cronenberg is one of the most creative directors at work today. For more than five decades, he’s been cranking out intelligent, boundary-pushing thrillers like Videodrome and Spider. His more dramatic features, especially A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, are also excellent and see him taking his razor-sharp observations to issues…
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The X-Files’ Lone Gunmen Spin-Off Show May Have Predicted 9/11
Things changed forever on September 11, 2001, both in real life and in the world of entertainment. There’s a clear line drawn through history; a pre-and-post 9/11 line. The most obvious example of this line is when you watch a film or TV show set in New York. If it was shot prior to 9/11,…
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Ralph Bakshi’s Best Animated Movies, Ranked
Ralph Bakshi is a director like no other. After working nearly a decade for Terrytoons and on shows like Rocket Robin Hood and the 1967 Spider-Man, he founded his own animated studio in 1969. Unsatisfied with the state of animation at the time, he began making movies to prove that animation could tackle adult issues…
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The 1960s “Spider-Man” Cartoon Was So Much Weirder Than You Think
Ever since Spider-Man first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15, he’s been adapted to just about every medium possible, but no adaptation rides the line between conventional and strange better than the simply titled 1960s animated TV show, Spider-Man. This show first premiered in 1967, starting out with your typical Spidey villains and story types, but…
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‘Madame Web’ Release Date Moves to Valentine’s Day
Madame Web, the upcoming film set in the Sony’s Spider-Man Universe has moved up its release date by two days, and it will now release on February 14, 2024, instead of the previously scheduled February 16. Dakota Johnson stars as the titular character, who has psychic abilities that allow her to see events happening around…
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10 Overly Ambitious Superhero Movies
The superhero genre is one that’s dominated cinemas for much of the 21st century so far. There’s a debate that could be had about whether it started in the early 2000s, thanks to movies like Spider-Man and X-Men, or whether 2008 was the year when things really kicked off, mainly thanks to the release of…