Has Venom: The Last Dance’s trailer drawn Spider-Man: No Way Home’s sting?
Some viewers are unhappy that Marvel and Sony’s universes seem to be leaking into each other. But a strong franchise should be able to go everywhere all at once
May 2024
Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?
With new chapters in the worlds of Mad Max and Planet of the Apes out now, Guardian writers have picked their favourite big screen franchises to date
April 2024
Kirsten Dunst says she ‘didn’t even think to ask’ about Hollywood’s gender pay gap
Actor says she had more screen success, aged 17, than her male co-star Tobey Maguire but was paid less
March 2024
Week in geek
Where can Marvel take Tom Holland’s fourth Spider-Man film?
Week in geek
After the Madame Web disaster, where does Sony’s Spider-Verse go from here?
January 2024
Rare copy of The Amazing Spider-Man No 1 sells for more than £1m
The record price was set by one of only two copies rated near mint/mint in an auction alongside issues of Superman No 1 and All-Star Comics No 8 which featured Wonder Woman’s first appearance
November 2023
Madame Web: is this Spider-Man spinoff trailer deliberately terrible?
Dakota Johnson’s clairvoyant recites meme-worthy lines in the first look at a film that must be playing one big joke on all of us
July 2023
Tom Holland: ‘I felt enslaved to alcohol’
The Spider-Man actor used a podcast appearance to speak about his struggles with alcoholism, and how giving up drinking has made him ‘the happiest I’ve ever been’
June 2023
The Guardian view on Spider-Man’s multiverse: it is wokeness in action
Editorial: Resolving the conflicts about who we are may be how superheroes grow up in the movies
John Romita Sr: the Spider-Man artist was a titan of the comic-book world
David Barnett
The man who helped to bring an iconic character to life shaped the look of the Marvel Universe for decades
John Romita Sr, Spider-Man artist and co-creator of Wolverine, dead at 93
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review – a dizzying, dazzling sequel
The end has no end: why Hollywood should stop splitting movies into two
Charles Bramesco
May 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review – crazily frantic sequel with full-spin energy
The brilliance of the kaleidoscopic, animated Spider-Verse erupts again in this multidimensional film about a teen superhero with exasperated parents
December 2022
Prince Harry dresses as Spider-Man for Christmas message to bereaved children
Duke of Sussex records video to comfort youngsters at Scotty’s Little Soldiers, a charity for military children
September 2022
Week in geek
Is it time to put Sony’s Spider-Man Universe out of its misery?
Sony still holds rights to the Marvel characters connected to Spider-Man in the comics, but there is little sign it can make entertaining use of them
May 2022
Spider-Man at 20: the superhero film that changed blockbuster cinema
Sam Raimi’s charming, if patchy, 2002 adventure showed that mass audiences were eager for a new kind of superhero and the industry never looked back
March 2022
Ranked
Kirsten Dunst’s 20 best performances – ranked!
To celebrate her Oscar nomination for The Power of the Dog, here are Dunst’s star turns, from game-for-adventure girls-next-door to enigmatic and melancholy brides and widows
February 2022
Week in geek
The Spider-Man pointing meme perfectly encapsulates why fans adored No Way Home
Bringing Spideys old and new together was a masterclass in giving audiences what they want, and points to what Batman v Superman got so wrong
January 2022
Can a blockbuster still win big at the Oscars?
Sony’s bullish FYC campaign for smash hit Spider-Man: No Way Home has reignited a debate over what kind of film the Academy should be rewarding
