Henry Bevan

Henry Bevan looks back at what could have been with James Cameron’s Spider-Man… James Cameron’s Spider-Man. It’s a big What If..?, up there with Kubrick’s Napoleon and Jodorowsky’s Dune. It seems like the perfect match, pairing one of Hollywood’s best action directors with one of its most action-suited characters. Just imagine what Cameron would have done with all of Spider-Man’s acrobatic flips and kicks. Well, as most know, it almost happened.

Multiple Spider-Mans makes for outrageous fun in Marvel’s slick, constantly surprising multiverse animation. Since Miles Morales first burst onto the pages of Marvel Comics, the publisher has been ramping up the number of “legacy characters”, with Jane Foster taking the mantle of Thor, Falcon becoming Captain America, and the introduction of Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel.

Michael Moore takes aim at both sides of the political establishment in this scattershot survey of Trump’s America. Michael Moore is seriously cheesed off. Nothing new there. But something about America’s former cap-wearing curmudgeon in-chief seems different this time. He’s less, well, curmudgeonly than usual. His agitating… not quite as agitated as before. Could it be that this firebrand documentary filmmaker, this surly scourge of the political elite, has mellowed?