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Spider-man Homecoming Review

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The hype is good for Spider-Man Homecoming, as it comes home to Marvel Studios (sort of)



We got our first glimpse of the rebooted / re imagined (fill in your own Hollywood bullshit term here)

web slinger in Captain America Civil War. Tom Holland's Spidey was on point, but his Peter Parker was a bit off. Thankfully though, Holland's performance in Homecoming is nothing less than stellar! In fact, his Peter Parker is leaps and bounds ahead of his Spidey!



Plot wise, Homecoming is a bit on the standard side. Hero coming of age type deal, fattened up with short appearances from Iron-Man / Tony Stark. Throw in Michael Keaton as the Vulture and you have a movie that entertains when and where it should but ultimately falls down with too much meandering exposition and scenes that seem to drag on for an eternity.



While audiences won't have to endure another origin story, the movie still drags it's heels and takes, what feels like an eternity to get going. When it does get going, it's fantastic. Some top notch set pieces (tragically given away in the 10 billion trailers and clips that were released) abound and are genuinely spectacular to watch.









The humor Marvel fans have come to love is here too with Parker's best friend, Ned (Jacob Batalon) providing much of the hilarity. And yes, there's plenty of visual gags and little "blink and you'll miss them" nods throughout.



The aforementioned Tom Holland plays a blinder, and I do wonder about Robert Downey Jr. Nobody plays Tony Stark better, but he seems just here for the sake of it, in case Holland wasn't able to carry the movie on his shoulders. And carry it he does! Michael Keaton, channeling some Birdman is fantastic as The Vulture. Genuinely one of the best things about the movie and outside of Loki, is certainly the most interesting Marvel big screen villain to date.



Overall, far from a disaster, Spider-Man Homecoming does entertain, but it's bogged down with scenes that drag you back out of the web it does such a good job of capturing you with (enough of the spidey puns)



Worth a watch! Just!!!






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The Music Video That Was Baby Driver Before Baby Driver

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It’s been one week since Edgar Wright’s heist movie masterpiece Baby Driver (read our five star review here) screeched onto the big screen, offering audiences a fun and, more importantly, unique alternative to the usual Summer blockbusters. It’s success has even seen Sony approach Wright about a potential sequel. But few people know that this movie has been in development since 1994. Proof of that can found in the music video for Mint Royale’s Blue Song that Wright directed way back in 2003. Starring Noel Fielding (as well as Fielding’s Mighty Boosh co-hort Julian Barret and Wright regulars Michael Smiley and Nick Frost) in the role that would eventually go to Ansel Elgort, it adapts the movies opening and showcased what the director had planned for the future hit. The worst thing about it is that it makes me long for a version of the movie with this cast. Check it out for yourself below.








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The Long In Development Gemini Man Finally Gets The Green Light

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Way back in 1997, leafing through the pages of Empire (the movie lovers Internet before the Internet existed) I stumbled across news of an intriguing little action called Gemini Man. Nothing to do with the The Invisible Man-inspired miniseries of the same name, the story followed a grizzled government assassin targeted for termination. The kicker was that his would-be killer was a younger clone of himself. 25 years younger to be exact, at the peak of his abilities. You better believe this blew my young mind back then, especially when Mel Gibson was announced to be taking on the roles. No two actors playing the younger and older versions of the character, the same actor in both roles. The problem with this ambitious idea was that the technology didn’t exist to pull this effect off. But with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 showcasing the leaps and bounds this technology has taken in recent years, the stage is set for Gemini Man to finally reach the big screen.







After years of doing the rounds in Hollywood, where it was earmarked for directors such as Tony Scott, Curtis Hanson, and Joe Carnahan (who went as far as making a sizzle reel with Clint Eastwood in the lead role), the movie has now fallen into the hands of Ang Lee, who has proven a deft hand with CG heavy projects like Life of Pi, with a release set for October 2019. What’s more, a star has already been found in the form of Will Smith. While not my first choice (I’m still hung up on Mel Gibson. Surely some script revisions could be done?), the chance to see Smith from the 90’s is one nostalgia hit I think everyone whats to partake of. If the movie can live up to the decades of hype around it remains to be seen, but I think this is one concept that will peak everyone’s interest.

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