Laura Ziskin

Movie Review: Lee Daniels’ The Butler (2013)

While I am not crazy about a director including his own name in the title of a film (after all, we never saw a movie called “Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane” or “David Lean’s Great Expectations” or “Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver”), I can sort of forgive Lee Daniels (who directed the equally obscurely titled “Precious: Based…

Movie Review: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is back to spinning a cinematic web that returns him to his roots, but where familiarity resides, so does a daring creativity emerge that makes this Spidey a fantastic and fascinating force to be reckoned with. The beloved web-head is now played by Andrew Garfield, taking over the wall-crawling duties from…

Movie Trailer #3: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

As if “The Avengers” coming out this weekend wasn’t enough superhero hype to swallow right now! Today, Sony Pictures dropped a new trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man and like the previous one that dropped in February, it is good. More revelations are to be found within this one, as well as more shots of The…

Movie Trailer #2: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

The second trailer for the highly anticipated reboot The Amazing Spider-Man has hit the airwaves today. Unlike the teaser trailer released in July of last year, this one offers a more defining glimpse into what the movie is about. In a nutshell, self-discovery. Peter Parker sets out to understand why his parents abandoned him while…

Movie Trailer: The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Two days ago it was the teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises. Today Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios released the anticipated teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. It’s hard to imagine the highly successful franchise getting a reboot already, but it is and this version, on the surface, looks to have a darker theme…

Movie Review: Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Here it is, Spider-Man 3, the most anticipated movie of the year. As a Spider-Man fan for most of my life, I can safely say I was counting down the days for this release. After “Spider-Man 2,” I found myself yearning for more. Could the third installment best the sequel which actually bested the original…

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