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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse: Thwip it up and start again

If there's one thing I bloody love, it's a good hard kick up the bum. Not literally you understand, and also not aimed in the direction of my own bum, but rather the kind that someone gives to a flagging movie franchise every now and again. I've wanged on about it a thousand million times but see Dynamite Comics' James Bond stories for a classic example of cracking the mould while remaining

Silence

Speaking generously about his pal Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg once said: "My movies are whispers; Marty's movies are shouts". Ironically though, Marty's latest shout is titled Silence, and the fact that it's a quiet meditation on deeply personal, generally internalised emotional processes does kind of bugger up The Berg's metaphor. That said, and fully aware that I may be extending this

Six films I'll be giving a shit about in

AAAAAAAAH! I'm hoping so hard that this is the first in a series of five films whose titles consist almost entirely of repeated vowels. (4th) ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL Looks lovely, like Boursin risotto. (4th) LEGEND So Tom Hardy reckons he's as good as BOTH Kemp brothers, does he? Well we'll see about that. (9th) EVEREST The story of how a group of brave men