Andrew Garfield
Trailer for ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ Released
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionized theater as the creator of Rent. The trailer for the film, which stars Andrew Garfield has just been released. The film follows Jon (Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who is waiting tabl...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
In the superhero movie genre, the second part in a series is typically better than the original (Iron Man 2 being one of the few exceptions to the rule). That’s because the first movie is burdened with the task of setting up the hero’s origin, while the sequel gets to jump right in. Such is the case with The Amazing Spider-Man 2. The only difference with the Spider-Man franchise is tha...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is Back in The Amazing Spider-Man 2
We’re another week closer to Christmas, and I was very happy to see Frozen take the top spot at the box office this past weekend. In the meantime, this week’s new Trailer Trashin’ examines yet another of next year’s big upcoming films – The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Premise: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) continues to struggle with balancing his life as a high school student an...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
There are those that will never be happy with reboots or changes to beloved franchises. Already, The Amazing Spider-Man has been attacked for starting Spider-Man’s story anew once again, despite only ten years having passed since Sam Raimi first helmed Spider-Man and five years since the final entry with Tobey Maguire in the lead role (never mind that no one complained about Christopher Nolan’s Ba...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Amazing Spider-Man Fails to Live Up to Its Title
Now that The Avengers has been released – it’s awesome, go see it if you haven’t – and the summer movie season has officially begun, the new trailers will be coming in fast and furious. Attached to Marvel’s comic book opus are the final trailers for the other big superhero films of the summer: The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man. With two such high-profile trailers b...[Read More]