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...severe case of teen angst, Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is now a citywide celebrity as Spidey, with a swelled head to match. Enter a mess of nemeses, some old (James Franco as Harry Osborn), some new to the film series (Topher Grace as Venom, Thomas Haden Church as Sandman). For all the zippy fights and persuasive visual effects, SM3 is essentially a relationship movie, and a very sensitive one, about male-female and male-male bonding--it must set an all-time record for action heroes in tears. Mostly, director Sam Raimi's juggling act works. This is his most...
Preparing for the role of the irradiated Sandman, a.k.a. Flint Marko, in Spider-Man 3, Thomas Haden Church researched the Golem of Jewish folklore and the Frankenstein monster--creatures as pathetic as they were horrific. He wanted to give a nuanced reading of a mutant steeped in self-knowledge. "I remember the performances of Lon Chaney Jr.," he says, "where there was the physical aggression with that kind of sadness and regret that he [was] physically aggressive and could terrify people...
...been stalking and taking movies of local women. Decades later, Petty couldn't get the man to talk on camera, but he did track down several directors of grimy, no-budget films in which women appear to be tortured and killed. The result is S&Man (as in sandman), the year's most instructively icky documentary. Are these atrocity auteurs, and their pathetic victims, for real? Can we believe what we see? Petty explores the appetite for sick sensation that lurks in many a moviegoer. And it won't help if you keep repeating, "It's only a documentary...
When Astaire, in Swing Time, performed the Bojangles of Harlem number, he was paying tribute to Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, tap master extraordinaire and the prime exponent of a dance form developed on slave plantations and in vaudeville halls. Three of Robinson's aged contemporaries--Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims--still hoofing in 1979, were the stars of George T. Nierenberg's intimate documentary about a challenge dance at a Harlem nightclub. Their story is poignant, their dexterity poetic, their legacy immense...
...time I've ever looked around and thought, 'That's not sane.'" Indeed, Gaiman's name has become such a seal of approval that he's just realizing he won't be able to accept all the projects he's offered. It wasn't always that way. Although The Sandman, Gaiman's 1989-96 series of comic books about a family of flawed immortals, has sold more than 7 million copies, the mainstream media tended to be sniffy. Not that it bothered Gaiman: "Comics are a medium that gets mistaken for a genre, where I could do horror or detective...