Tag: Spider-man
Aaron R. Davis Spider-Man, the Hulk, and Iron Man are all wearing mouse ears today. The big news yesterday was that the Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Once the sale is final, Walt Disney will own Marvel Comics and its over 5,000 comic …
Joel Murphy Have you ever watched Snakes on a Plane and wondered what those snakes were doing before they ended up on that flight? Have you ever watched Die Hard and wondered what made young John McClane decide to become a police officer in the first place? Have …
Courtney Enlow Yesterday, I had a long talk with my best friend, the organizational psych grad student, about pretension. And she pointed out a classic trait of all pretentious people: they hate everything. They hate everything, she said, because one is more vulnerable to judgment upon admitting that …
Joel Murphy I saw an alarming story on Entertainment Weekly’s website this week, one that gave me pause: “Life wasn’t NBC’s only letdown, though. Chuck continued to struggle, averaging 5.9 million viewers at 8 p.m. (an 11 percent decline from last Monday’s disappointing premiere), and Heroes tallied just …
In 1979, Detroit friends Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for their low-budget film, Evil Dead and the rest is history. Raimi, the director of the film, has gone on to direct all three blockbuster Spider-man films and Campbell, the star of Evil Dead, has …
