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He’s Spider-They. He’s the…

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Week of March 22, 2019

Non-binary super-heroes are a name charger. First up…..

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Anyone could be under Spider-Man’s mask; which is why it’s popular amongst bank-robbers.

However, this animated movie supposes someone else is actually slinging webs too.

When his world’s Spider-Man (Chris Pine) perishes closing Kingpin’s (Liev Schreiber) multiverse portal, irradiated teenager Miles (Shameik Moore) is sans mentor. That is until he realizes that not only has another Spider-Man (Jake Johnson) appeared in his dimension, but alternate versions too, including a girl (Hailee Steinfeld), a pig (John Mulaney) and a monochrome web-head (Nicolas Cage). Now Miles and his amazing friends must thwart Kingpin’s second attempt at opening the gateway.

With eye-popping animation that mixes multiple mediums in with its own unique style, a diverse cast and an Oscar winning soundtrack, this spectacular interpretation hilariously honours all iterations of Spidey while introducing a thwack more.

And now that Spider-Man isn’t a white male anymore his enemies can all be charged with hate crimes.  Green Light

If Beale Street Could Talk

Even if streets could talk no one would ever be able to hear them over all of the traffic.

Similarly, the pregnant woman in this drama is being drowned out because of her race.

Discovering that she is pregnant shortly after her boyfriend Fonny (Stephan James) is sent to prison for rape, Tish (KiKi Layne) vows to prove his arrest was racially motivated by the police in time for their baby’s birth. Meanwhile, Tish’s mother (Regina King) tracks down the victim who identified Fonny as her assailant and pleads with her to change her testimony.

Beautifully shot and scored with strong performances, this nonlinear adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1970s era novel about racial inequality in New York is also very timely. However, the overall story is too rambling, while the dialogue is over-the-top and the ending unsatisfying.

Besides, police stop sending young black men to jail a long time ago.  Red Light

***Travels with My Ant***

Them!

The worst part about being able to lift 1,000 times your weight is that everybody wants your help when moving.

However, no one wants an ant the size of the one in this sci-fi move showing up Saturday morning.

Bombing in the deserts has yielded giant ants that are amassing sugar in underground liars. It’s not until people go missing that the police (James Whitmore) alerts the FBI (James Arness) and medical experts (Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon). But by the time they figure it out, the queens have flown to California.

Signalling the atomic age, this pioneer of the big bug feature remains a pillar of the 1950s matinee fad. Applying real world science to Cold War anxieties, Them’s forewarning of nuclear warfare was even more convincing thanks to the realistic looking creatures and their high-pitched wailing.

Incidentally, the only way to defeat giant ants is with giant magnifying glasses.

He’s a Foreign Worker Ant. He’s the…

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