Movie critic Mike Scott offers his Friday rundown of this week’s new arrivals.
Spider-Man is back on the big screen in the franchise reboot «Spider-Man: Homecoming» — arriving just three years after Sony Pictures pulled the plug on its short-lived «Amazing Spider-Man» experiment. A key difference this time is that Spidey is firmly established as part of the «Avengers» universe, the spoils of an unprecedented bit of mutual back-scratching by Sony’s Columbia Pictures, which holds the movie rights to Spider-Man, and Disney’s Marvel Films, which is behind the «Avengers» mega-franchise.
The result? A film that is every bit as fun as Spider-Man’s 2016 cameo in «Captain America: Civil War» — and a movie that is expected to clean up at the box office this weekend.
For those not interested in superhero fare, the highly regarded romantic comedy «The Big Sick» also arrives this week, as does the post-apocalyptic indie drama «The Survivalist.»
I talk about all three films this week in my weekly Friday-morning movies segment on WVUE-Fox 8, in which I tell you everything you really need to know about this week’s new movies in a neat and tidy three-minute package. You’ll find it in the embedded video above — and you can watch it live on Fox-8 every Friday at 8: 40 a.m.
You can also scroll down to find links to full reviews of «Spider-Man» and «The Big Sick.»
