Sam Raimi's answer to the decadelong dilemma was quite simple. He didn't make a film about Spider-Man. Instead, Raimi chose to make a movie about the man behind the mask, Peter Parker. As a comic ...

Leaning on this quality for the Spider-Man movie, meanwhile, benefits the creative vision of Sam Raimi and company on many fronts. For one thing, it emphasizes the puberty metaphor of Parker’s ...

Sixteen years ago today, on March 12, 2009, Sony and Marvel announced that Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4 would be released on May 6, 2011. The film, of course, would never be made, with Sony instead ...