Tag: Spider-Man

• Favorite Films of 2023

  As with last year’s list, I decided to skip the usual pressure to make a top 10 by the end of the year without having seen a bunch of the eligible movies. Instead I took my time, waiting to watch titles as they hit streaming or Blu-ray so I’d have a better shot at a…

  Mar 6, 2024

  # Back to the Future, best of, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, documentary, film, lists, movies, review, Saturday Night Live, Spider-Man

• Favorite Films of the 2010s

  See also: my favorite books, TV shows, and albums of the 2010s. My initial list for this endeavor had 77 movies. After I barely managed to winnow it down to 50, I just couldn’t figure out how I’d get to that arbitrary yet appealing round number of 10. But once I realized most of the…

  Dec 10, 2019

  # Arrival, best of, film, Hell Or High Water, Lincoln, lists, Mad Max: Fury Road, Minding the Gap, movies, Spider-Man, Spotlight, The LEGO Movie, The Social Network, This Is Martin Bonner

• Favorite Films of 2018

  My theme for last year’s movies was the strength of women. This year, it’s time for some manly love. (Archer voice: “Phrasing!”) Since June, when I found out I was going to be a father, I’ve been keenly aware of how fatherhood has been portrayed in this year’s crop of movies. What strikes me now,…

  Jan 4, 2019

  # Alfonso Cuarón, best of, Coen Brothers, fatherhood, film, John Cho, lists, movies, Paul Dano, review, Spider-Man, Spike Lee, The Death of Stalin, Yorgos Lanthimos

• Captain America: Civil War

  Spoilers, natch. Finally, a Spider-Man who actually looks like he’s in high school! That, along with ever more compelling character studies of Steve Rogers and Tony Stark, made this latest episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Show worth watching. Captain America and Iron Man are by far my favorite Marvel characters thus far, and the Avengers I find…

  May 15, 2016

  # Black Panther, Captain America, film, Iron Man, Marvel, movies, review, Spider-Man, The Avengers

• The Glass Cockpit

  Is the Internet making us smarter or stupider? It’s a question Q the Podcast recently tackled in a lively and in-depth debate between lots of smart and interesting people. There is enough evidence to support both sides of the debate. But what I concluded after listening to the show was that for all of the…

  Oct 24, 2013

  # attention, Internet, Nicholas Carr, Spider-Man, technology