Visually stunning, creatively audacious, thrillingly inventive.... But enough about Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse; what of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Jon Watts’ trilogy-completing follow-on to 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming and 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home?
You’ll probably be aware by now that it’s a mash-up of sorts that uses multiverse-straddling wormholes to allow villains from earlier iterations of Sony’s Spidey franchise to cross over into the universe inhabited by Tom Holland’s web-slinger, Benedict Cumberbatch’s Stephen Strange and other members of the Avengers family. So the only question really is this: does it do so with enough energy, panache and originality to make it not just a worthy successor to Holland’s spirited previous outings, but also the Oscar-winning 2018 animation with which it shares its narrative DNA?
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Mad Worlds
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Cruise lines launch new ships and voyages to meet pent-up passenger demand.
STEVE HOLLAND: The World's Greatest Illustration Art Model
Thomas Steven Holland was born January 8, 1925, in Seattle Washington, and died on May 10, 1997, at age 72 in Humboldt County, California following a brief illness. He was married three times and had two children from his first marriage, a son named Claude and a daughter, Nicole.
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PARTING SHOT
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PROPELLANT PROFILES
Striking a Balance
BayCare Chief Nursing Officer Using Circumstances To Shape Collaborative Approach To New Role
THE PARIAH SHIP
The cruise industry was already in a Covid-19 crisis when the MS Zaandam set sail. Yet Holland America was unprepared when people began to fall sick and country after country turned the ship away