News

Cover Story

On HALO

2 hours ago

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Proves That You Can at Least Try to Build a Better Marvel Movie

Tom Holland as Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man —Courtesy of SonyAt the end of 2021’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man is a young man adrift. His best friend, Jacob Batalan’s Ned, and his girlfriend, Zendaya’s MJ, have been right by his side through most of the movie; at the end, a mystical spell erases their memory of him, ostensibly forever. His Aunt May (Marisa Tomei) has died as the result of a fireball assault by Green Goblin (Willem Dafoe), who, in his human guise, is a man she’d tried to help. Peter is too sunny to let his isolation harden into bitterness, an...