James' Movie Blog

When dealing with spiders, the sense of arachnophobia is brought on. But sometimes, especially in the movies, this can be played for laughs. Which leads us the 2002 creature feature “Eight Legged Freaks”, a movie which focuses on giant, mutated spiders. What else? This movie was an unfortunate bomb at the box office, and had its title changed thanks to clever marketing. But personally, this is a rather fun and enjoyable flick. While “Eight Legged Freaks” may not be for everyone, I still think that it should be viewed as an enjoyable and quite entertaining flick. The story follows a small Arizona town where things are not so good financially. That is until a truck carrying toxic waste dumps a barrel into a lake, and effects the grasshoppers. The grasshoppers are then fed to spiders at a special farm nearby, and soon grow to gigantic proportions. Now, the town must hurry if they want to survive this invasion of mammoth arachnids. “Eight Legged Freaks” is a dumb flick. But i...

Spider-Man is a very important character in fiction. His stories always center around him saving the day, with him being a hero and whatnot, and there are many interpretations of the character, as well. Case in point, the 2017 film “Spider-Man: Homecoming”, which not only introduces a new perspective of Spider-Man, but also a brand new story for the action hero to follow. This, however, leads to some problems, and while it isn't perfect, the movie is entertaining enough to watch multiple times. “Spider-Man: Homecoming” is a fun, and exciting adventure for the web crawler, but there are still issues that he needs to get through. The story follows Spider-Man, aka Peter Parker (Tom Holland) returning home from his battle with Captain America. Now that he's home, Peter looks up to his mentor Tony Stark, aka Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) for inspiration. This leads Peter to investigate a serious criminal named The Vulture, aka Adrian Toomes (Michael Keaton), and some high te...