We wish we could manifest, in our day-to-day lives, the same joyful optimism with which Sony makes movies set in the Spider-Man universe, in which Spider-Man himself does not actually appear. (Except, possibly, as a baby, lacking the proportional strength and agility of even the tiniest of spiders.) Despite what has been an almost platonic illustration of the concept of “diminishing returns” since the box office success of Venom back in 2018—highlighted by the recent box office failure of... Read this story
