Big screen, little screen review: Spiderman – No Way Home

It is difficult to put pen to paper about the latest chapter of Spider-Man without spoiling anything. In this feature The Daily Bugle makes a fake confessional that reveals Spider-Man’s secret identity and falsely accuses him of the attack in London and his death. This damaged Peter Parker (Tom Holland) character is no longer an unidentified citizen. Young Peter then embarks on his final year in high school and he, his ‘Heart Beat’- MJ (Zendaya) and his closest ally, Ned (Jacob Batalon), are all seeking to enter university and envision attending MIT. The fact that he is no longer unknown threatens to spoil their dream. Peter makes a deal with sorcerer Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to cause people not remember Spider-Man’s identity. However, Strange’s enchantment failed to work, and it also created conditions to encounter Spider-Man’s past nemeses. Alfred Molina returns as Dr Otto Octavius beginning Spider-Man 2 (2004), Willem Dafoe plays Green Goblin from Spider-Man 3 (2007), Thomas Haden Church is Sandman from Spider-Man 3, Rhys Ifans is The Lizard from The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Jamie Foxx shocks another time as Electro from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).

Marvel’s next movie, which debuts on 6 May 2022, is titled Doctor Strange and this current flick offers us a hint of how out of hand things can get when the single timeline gets divided.

But the best parts of this overstuffed and not smooth two-and-a-half-hour motion picture are those cameos and connections to past Peter Parker (Spidery) versions. Notwithstanding that the past 19 years’ Spider-Man features, have created a lot of substance as fodder for future sequels.

Marking Palace Amusement 100 Years-A Survivor

The tale of Palace Amusement is one of endurance. A fire in 1996 destroyed one of its outlets the former Carib (Now Carib5), for several months, Hurricane Ivan in 2004 curtailed operations at the Harbour view Drive-in, one of several of the Palace Amusement Company’s locations. Although it was said then that the drive-in was losing its appeals. Many other spaces saw close down as well that were regular spaces for moviegoers, such as Globe in Vineyard Town, Rialto at Windward Road, Gaiety on East Queen Street, Kings on Windward Road, Odeon at Halfway Tree, and Regal in Cross Roads, to name a few, to see other spaces developed such as the Sovereign, Old Hope Road as well as in Greater Portmore.

For 100 years, the company has suffered a hurricane, a fire, and the period of VHS and DVDs setting to currently open its doors – the show must still go on. One must also understand the political upheavals in the late 1970s to 1980s, and the violence associated, also crippled movie going pleasures. On the other hand, the current tests are amid a pandemic and an unstable foreign exchange climate. For each difficulty suffered, a new structure of survival was applied.

Whether it was innovating and changing how the Palace conducted business or reconstruction of their leading cinema from its arid base.

Place Amusement marked its 100th year in September 2021. However, these celebrations had to take place amidst the harshest economic climate any business entity has had to endure in modern history. The global financial meltdown 2008 came and went and The Palace survived rebounded and marched on, however, the challenges due to the COVID-19 Pandemic caused a total shutdown. Resilience and ingenuity saved the day and despite whatever confronts the entity, it is not farfetched to envision that Palace Amusement will commemorate another 100 years in September 2121.

Movies now showing in the Jamaican Cinema Carib 5

West Side Story – West Side Story explores forbidden love.

King Richard – A look at how tennis superstars, Venus and Serena Williams, became who they are.

Clifford the Big Red Dog – A little girl’s affection for a puppy makes the dog grows to a massive size.

David R. Muhammad is a former morning host on Visions Television and a former member of the Palace Amusement Media Movie Review Committee. He is currently the Student Protocol Officer of the Nation of Islam’ study group – Jamaica.