Review – Spidey’s back! (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”)

This is part one, BTW. Its sequel, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, comes out in 2024. . . or so I’m told. Anyway, this is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s blockbuster, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which introduced young Miles Morales as the new web-slinger. Using a terrific mash-up of traditional 2D and CG animation, drawing on…

Review – Killmonger vs Kang (“Creed III”)

If 2018’s Creed II was Rocky IV, then logically this should be Creed V, right? Well, it is and isn’t. This threequel still has the blistering boxing fists of Michael B. Jordan as Adonis “Donnie” Creed, reprising his role that is part of the RCU (Rocky Cinematic Universe). Mashing up elements of both Rocky III…