Superhero All Grown Up: Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2

Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 , from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent, based on a screen story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Michael Chabon (and the Marvel comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko), turns out to be surprisingly and delightfully superior to Mr. Raimi’s first Spider-Man (2002). But you don’t have to take Read More

One Man’s Castle

Irwin Winkler’s Life as a House is for anyone who’s a sucker for a sob. There’s always a welcome mat for the magnetic Kevin Kline, but he’s up to his ears in suds in this sentimental story of an unhappy Los Angeles architect named George Monroe, a fruitcake so distanced from society that he lives Read More