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With “Spider-Man: Far From Home” hitting theaters, it’s only appropriate to look back at the web-slinger’s storied on-screen history and separate the worst from the best.
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With its stunning grace and resonance, the Pulitzer Prize-winning political epic “Angels in America” is coming to the Berkeley Repertory Theater this April.
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Some of the most fun during the Oscars season comes in the predictions phase. With records tied and broken during nominations morning, the slate of films and talent up for Oscars is as fascinating as it’s been in years. While there is a long wait from the January announcement until
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T hrough the first two-thirds of 2016, the year’s landscape of film was looking absolutely horrendous. No one went out to see the brilliant independent films such as “The Lobster” and “Swiss Army Man,” and a majority of the major blockbusters, such as “Gods of Egypt” and “Independence Day: Resurgence,”
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In the 1630s, during Japan’s Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate quelled an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics; in the aftermath, with Christianity prohibited and punishable by death, a faction of Japanese Christians practiced their faith secretly so as to escape persecution. Novelist Shūsaku Endō undertook the story of the Kakure
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Mel Gibson last directed a film back in 2006 with the Mesoamerican epic “Apocalypto.” Earlier that year, he received a DUI during which he notoriously made some terrible statements. With 10 years away from the spotlight, Gibson returns with “Hacksaw Ridge.” Is this his redemption? “Hacksaw Ridge” recounts the true
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It’s hard to keep a franchise fresh, and if “Pirates of the Caribbean” taught studios anything, it’s that some storylines should be given a serious cooling-off period before beginning the next installment. This didn’t, however, prevent Sony from doing their “Spider-Man” reboot only half a decade after the Tobey Maguire
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It’s been 10 years since Tobey Maguire donned the red and blue spandex and battled the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man.” Including the two sequels, Raimi and company held a five-year grip on the franchise, weaving various strands of the web crawler’s intricate story arcs. After becoming familiar with
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