After a brutal lion attack Sergei Kravinoff is saved from death by a young girl and the rare serum gifted to her by her grandmother. The serum not only saves his life, it heightens his senses and increases his strength to superhuman levels. Searching for purpose and looking to get as far away from his criminal father as he can, Sergei becomes ‘The Hunter’. Utilising those newfound skills, he looks to rid the world of evil men. So the Sony Spider-Man Universe ( SSU ) has come to an end. And it is about as far from a glorious death as you can get. Kraven the Hunter  is yet another pretty standard origin story for a  Marvel character owned by Sony , in which said character does not get to meet the Web-Head. This one - which  inexplicably opens to the soundtrack to  The Hunt for Red October -  centres around a rather uninteresting family dynamic in which a father attempts to keep his children close by continuing to be the despicable man they have always loathed. Su...

Sony ’s attempts to create a live action Spider-Verse without Spider-Man continue with  Madame Web . This latest endeavour follows Cassie Web (Dakota Johnson), a paramedic in New York who is about to discover she has some incredible psychic abilities that allow her to see many things, including the future. But without a wall-crawler for her to help, Cassie is faced with the unenviable task of protecting three teenage girls (Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, Isabela Merced) from a not Spider-Man  spider/man villain. Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim) wants to kill these girls before they get a chance to kill him at some point in the future, just like his vision said they would. But unknown to everybody, Ezekiel also has a connection to Cassie. Wow! At this point, is anybody not surprised that Sony is still churning out these movies? Seriously, with the exception of Venom  - and I know I'm on an island here - does anyone actually enjoy this  live action Web-Head-light  S...