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Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Review by Mitchell

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It is a brand new day for Spider-Man, a day without his friends and his Aunt May. He’s dealing with the usual Spidey problems, not only from a Spider-man point of view, yet a Peter Parker one to and they are both split 50/50 in impact to our friendly neighborhood Spider-man.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a more stripped back Spider-Man. Sure there is the custom in built action sequences with the 50 SFX houses credited in the end titles as you await the end of credits scene (don’t bother, get out of the car park early). It’s a New York set movie (probably shot in Canada for a tax credit and to that effect). New York looks great. It’s the most New York movie since The Avengers. I was warmed up appropriately for Spider-man after seeing the Avengers: Doomsday trailer, which I anticipate even more now and I have a feeling this movie is going to blow up.

Now back to Spider-Man: Brand New Day, as I digress.

Excellent performances by the many leads, borrowing casting heavily from The Bear and The Odyssey. There are characters that show up, which straight away made me think if that team up was going to work and it did it. Credit to the Director and Screen Writers for making that happen. I saw it at a packed house, (cinema is not dead) with 90% GEN Zers in attendance. They laughed, the cheered and they yelled “OH NO” in the right places. Good on them. The action scenes are Marvel in its prime worthy. No rubbish CGI shots, no shots that go in circles around the hero with rushed and under budget CGI and Green screens. Spider-Man: Brand New Day looks great.

The “villain” of the piece is so left field I was shocked. Shocked that it hadn’t leaked and shocked who they chose. I didn’t see it coming and even if I had 100 guesses. I still wouldn’t of been able to guess who it was and good on Sony/Marvel for going in such a bold direction. All the cameos work and work into the story well. This is a winter movie and suits the tone of Spider-Man: Brand New Day in a different photographic look for Marvel. The humour works in the right amount and I appreciate that the script attempted zingers every three lines.

A mature Spider-Man: Brand New Day is present here and the quality of the work is appreciated. Spider-Man has been going for over 20 years now from Sony/Marvel start and the series is in good hands. Instead of going bigger they’ve gone to the emotional heart of Spider-man that packs a punch harder than the HULK. Keep up the good work Marvel and now we know the Sony Spider verse spin offs are all dead. This is a good basket to keep those eggs in.

In Cinemas – 30 July 2026

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99 percent of you are going to see the new Spider-man movie, right? For the other 1 percent, there are a couple of esoteric options

Spider-man: Brand New Day – The Marvel/Sony Spider-man partnership forges stronger ties in the fourth installment of what could be sub-titles “Spidey Team-Up”, as all four have featured a major MCU player in a key supporting role. This time around Mark Ruffalo’s professor turned super-Hyde Bruce Banner/Hulk joins Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-man as he attempts to protect friends MJ (Zendaya) and Ned (Jacob Batalon) from a new threat that only he can perceive. Expect a lot more MCU cameos, in particular from Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle/The Punisher, tense and well shot action sequences, a plot that won’t hold up under much scrutiny and a long run time. Probably fun as well.

The Blue Trail – A Portuguese dystopian drama, Denise Weinberg stars as a 77 year-old who receives a government order to retire and relocate to a colony as part of an initiative to boost the economy and manage population growth. Defiantly she sets out into the Amazon in pursuit of her dreams and independence. Director Gabriel Mascaro crafts a beautiful and poignant tale about finding fresh starts in life, no matter your age.

WHAM! 10 Days in China – If you’re a fan of 80’s pop icons George Michael and the Other Guy (just kidding Andrew Ridgeley), and you’re lucky enough to find a screening near you, this restored release of a 40 year old project may be of interest. in 1986 WHAM! was the first ever Western pop group to be permitted to perform in China. Hoping to create a tie-in video release Sony Music engaged Lindsay Anderson to film the concert tour. His version of the film was rejected for focusing too much on life in a communist country, and not enough on the band. The project was then handed to Mike Christie, who has now revitalised his cut with new interviews.