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The Best Spider-Man Movie Ever Made Is Now On Netflix
By Chris Snellgrove
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While the studio achieved success with the Venom trilogy of movies, Sony has generally run the Spider-Man brand into the ground with awful movies based on his supporting characters, including Morbius, Kraven the Hunter, and Madame Web. However, the studio managed to knock it out of the park with a 2018 film that most fans agree is the best Spider-Man movie ever made. That film is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and you can now stream this colorful cartoon classic for yourself on Netflix.
The premise of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is that gifted student Miles Morales gets bitten by a spider that gives him similar abilities to those of his favorite hero, Spider-Man. After he witnesses his idol’s death, he decides to help with Spidey’s final mission: stopping Kingpin from using a collider that threatens all of space and time. Once different spider heroes begin showing up from different realities, though, they must all work together to take down the kingpin of crime before he manages to destroy the entire multiverse.
Your Celebrity Sense Is Tingling
There’s a surprising amount of big names providing the voices for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, including Lily Tomlin (best known for Nashville) as Aunt May. Jake Johnson (best known for New Girl) plays a schlubby Spider-Man from another universe while Zoë Kravitz (best known for The Batman) plays Mary Jane. Her heroic Peter Parker, incidentally, is played by Chris Pine (best known for Star Trek).
Additionally, Hailee Steinfeld (best known for Sinners) plays Spider-Gwen, and Nicolas Cage (best known for Face/Off) plays the gravelly-voiced Spider-Man Noir. Comedian John Mulaney voices Spider-Ham, while Liev Schreiber (best known for Spotlight) plays the conniving Kingpin. Holding the entire cast together is Shameik Moore (best known outside these films for Samaritan), who transforms Miles Morales into a hilariously relatable everyman who is suddenly responsible for saving all of reality from a grieving madman.
A Thwippy Hit With Audiences And Critics
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out and delivered a Kingpin-sized hit right when Sony needed one the most. The film earned $394 million against a budget of only $90 million, making this animated adventure an unqualified success at the box office. It was followed by a highly-acclaimed sequel (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), and fans are eagerly awaiting the third film (Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) that will bring this ambitious trilogy to a satisfying conclusion.
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out, movie reviewers decided that Miles Morales certainly knew how to thwip it good. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 97 percent, with critics praising the movie for its powerful blend of emotional storytelling and cutting-edge animation. They also commended the film for balancing heart, humor, and pulse-pounding action, making Into the Spider-Verse the rare story that delivers literally everything you could want from a superhero movie.
An Award-Winning Superhero Masterpiece
This critical adoration meant it was no surprise when Into the Spider-Verse became an awards darling, earning every single Annie Award (the Annies focus on American animation) it was nominated for, including Best Animated Feature. Additionally, the film took home a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and even an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The latter achievement was particularly impressive because this was the first time the award had been won by a non-Disney, non-Pixar film in seven years!
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was first announced, I had a bad feeling about it: I loved Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, but after the two Amazing Spider-Man movies, I wasn’t sure if Sony could do these characters justice. Making matters worse was that modern Spider-Man comics writing (including the comics that introduced the Spider-Verse in the first place) was largely hit-or-miss, so I feared we might get a bad adaptation of an already mediocre story. Finally, I thought the animation in the first trailer looked weird and that watching the movie might give me a very literal headache.
Sony Finally Takes A Leap
However, I saw the film in theaters on opening night, and I’ve never been quite so happy to be wrong. The animation is almost hypnotically beautiful, and the film’s top-notch art design helped bring the unique comic book aesthetic to life on the big screen. Plus, the story is both entertaining and powerful, giving us a multiversal tale that is more epic in scope and more moving in execution than anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever done.
By every possible metric, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie ever made, one that honors decades of comic history while helping a newer incarnation of the title character take center stage. A good Spidey story always focuses on relationships as much as action, and Miles Morales’ interactions with his family are often powerful enough to make you cry. The same can be said of his interactions with Peter B. Parker, who goes from being a slovenly mentor to someone who realizes how much he has to learn from his pupil.
It’s got killer animation, breathtaking fights, a perfect cast, and a completely unforgettable story. Whether you’re an old-school comics fan or you just enjoy a good blockbuster, you owe it to yourself to stream Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse on Netflix today. Afterward, you can join the rest of us in crossing fingers, toes, and webshooters that Beyond the Spider-Verse brings the house down when it brings this trilogy to a close in 2027.
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Super Bowl 2026 Gatorade shower color: What it was and why people want to know
The Super Bowl is built on tradition. Cracking open a beer, demolishing a plate of wings with friends, filling out Super Bowl Squares, and at this point, betting on the color of the Gatorade shower.
Thanks to the widespread legalization of sports betting and the explosion of prop bets in the U.S., you can now wager on just about anything. Over the past few years, one of the strangest traditions to become fully normalized is betting on the postgame Gatorade dunk, when the winning team douses its head coach in the fluorescent sports drink.
You can currently place wagers on events far more serious than a locker-room celebration, including ongoing global conflicts. Against that backdrop, guessing the color of a sugary sports drink feels almost quaint. Last year, the winning color was yellow at +250 odds, even though purple was the favorite at +175, according to DraftKings via the New York Post.
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Odds vary depending on where you place your bet. On Polymarket, blue currently has the most money behind it, while over at BetMGM, orange is favored at +225, with yellow, green/lime, and blue all trailing closely behind at +260.
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The winner is a back-to-back champ
Sorry, blue bettors, but for the second year in a row, yellow came out on top. The winning Gatorade color once again defied expectations, even though it felt inevitable to anyone closely tracking the odds.
That said, a handful of fans were annoyed by how the result was revealed. Instead of waiting until the final whistle, the broadcast tipped its hand earlier than expected, effectively spoiling the prop bet before the game had officially ended.
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Super Bowl fans celebrate and spiral on social media as the Seahawks beat the Patriots
In what will likely go down as one of the least thrilling Super Bowls in recent memory, the Seattle Seahawks finally got their revenge against the New England Patriots, defeating the AFC champions 29–13 to win Super Bowl LX.
The game got off to a sluggish start, with one of the league’s most explosive offenses in Seattle running headfirst into a relentless New England defense. The same stalemate played out on the other side of the ball, as Drake Maye’s Patriots offense struggled to generate any momentum against Seattle’s top-ranked scoring defense. Dubbed the Darkside Defense, a modern successor to the Legion of Boom, the Seahawks held New England to just 13 points, racking up seven sacks (tying a Super Bowl record) and forcing an interception in the process.
As for Patriots fans, the vibes are bleak.
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And for Seattle fans, the win brought the Seattle Seahawks even more joy. Not only did the franchise secure its second Super Bowl title in team history, but it also avenged one of the most infamous plays in NFL lore.
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Sam Darnold is a Super Bowl champion
The funniest and most satisfying outcome of the win is what it’s done for Sam Darnold’s legacy. Once widely written off as a bust, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback has now won the biggest game of his life. His diehard supporters, who have long and very ironically dubbed him GEQBUS, short for “God Emperor Quarterback of the United States,” are absolutely losing their minds. Over on the subreddit r/the_darnold, fans are firmly on cloud nine, basking in the kind of vindication only a Super Bowl win can deliver.
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Insane, R-Rated 90s Sci-Fi Is A Computer Virus For Your Brain
By Robert Scucci
| Published
I have no issue admitting that when I write movie reviews, I spend some time on Wikipedia and IMDb because I am better with faces than names. I want to make sure I am getting the talent straight when I talk about the characters that talent is portraying, as well as refresh myself on the story. In the case of 1991’s Brain Twisters, however, I had to consult the internet just to figure out what story it was even trying to tell in the first place, because it really does not make any sense at all.
Conceptually, Brain Twisters has a cool R-rated premise, but it limps along like it is aiming for a PG-13 rating. It wants to be sexy, but there is no nudity. It wants to carry itself like a slasher, but there is no real violence. It wants to play out like a sci-fi mystery thriller, but instead feels like a made-for-TV crime drama about a computer program that forces people to go on murder sprees. At least, I think that is what it is going for.
None Of This Makes Sense On Any Level
From what intel I have gathered, I am not alone in my assessment of Brain Twisters. The main story centers on Dr. Philip Rothman (Terry Lenderee), a university professor who runs mind control experiments on student volunteers involving sensory deprivation tanks and a wall of televisions a la A Clockwork Orange. Then a string of murders happens, drawing the attention of Detective Frank Turi (Joe Lombardo), who becomes involved after one of Dr. Rothman’s students, Ted (Shura McComb), commits suicide. This somehow results in a custody battle over his corpse.
Dr. Rothman wants Ted’s head for research purposes, while Detective Frank is more concerned with figuring out whether Ted was involved in the murder of his girlfriend, Denise (Heather Ann Barclay). As the film slowly meanders along, we learn that Dr. Rothman’s experiments are emitting radio waves, or something close to that, which cause his students to kill each other or themselves.
The problem is that Dr. Rothman is apparently unaware of this side effect because the software company financing his experiments never disclosed that information to him. This explanation immediately collapses under scrutiny, since he spends most of the second and third acts behaving in an increasingly unhinged and openly evil manner that suggests he knows exactly what is happening.
Meanwhile, student Laurie Stevens (Farrah Forke) becomes romantically involved with Detective Frank after he cooks her boxed spaghetti, while her promiscuous friend Michelle (Donna Bostany) attempts to seduce Dr. Rothman in exchange for a better grade. That is it. That is the whole movie.
Not Even Charming In A Shlocky Way
When I seek out movies like Brain Twisters, I genuinely try to identify their redeeming qualities. I have devoted an unthinkable number of hours to scraping the bottom of the Rotten Tomatoes barrel and logging onto Tubi in search of hidden or underappreciated gems that were not fully understood at the time of their initial release. More often than not, I am pleasantly surprised, and I report my findings here in case anyone else wants to check out something that was not on their radar but still fits their taste. It ain’t much, but it is honest work.
Brain Twisters, however, has no redeeming qualities, and it rightfully earns its seven percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is barely sci-fi, barely horror, and does not even have enough schlock to give it the kind of B-movie charm that lets you appreciate it as a diamond in the rough. Second-rate production values can be forgiven if there is a compelling story underneath them.The unfortunate truth about Brain Twisters is that there is not.
If you want to see what Brain Twisters is all about, you can stream it for free on Tubi. Or you can jam toothpicks under your fingernails if you are looking for a more productive way to spend your time.
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The Best Spider-Man Movie Ever Made Is Now On Netflix
By Chris Snellgrove
| Published
While the studio achieved success with the Venom trilogy of movies, Sony has generally run the Spider-Man brand into the ground with awful movies based on his supporting characters, including Morbius, Kraven the Hunter, and Madame Web. However, the studio managed to knock it out of the park with a 2018 film that most fans agree is the best Spider-Man movie ever made. That film is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), and you can now stream this colorful cartoon classic for yourself on Netflix.
The premise of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is that gifted student Miles Morales gets bitten by a spider that gives him similar abilities to those of his favorite hero, Spider-Man. After he witnesses his idol’s death, he decides to help with Spidey’s final mission: stopping Kingpin from using a collider that threatens all of space and time. Once different spider heroes begin showing up from different realities, though, they must all work together to take down the kingpin of crime before he manages to destroy the entire multiverse.
Your Celebrity Sense Is Tingling
There’s a surprising amount of big names providing the voices for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, including Lily Tomlin (best known for Nashville) as Aunt May. Jake Johnson (best known for New Girl) plays a schlubby Spider-Man from another universe while Zoë Kravitz (best known for The Batman) plays Mary Jane. Her heroic Peter Parker, incidentally, is played by Chris Pine (best known for Star Trek).
Additionally, Hailee Steinfeld (best known for Sinners) plays Spider-Gwen, and Nicolas Cage (best known for Face/Off) plays the gravelly-voiced Spider-Man Noir. Comedian John Mulaney voices Spider-Ham, while Liev Schreiber (best known for Spotlight) plays the conniving Kingpin. Holding the entire cast together is Shameik Moore (best known outside these films for Samaritan), who transforms Miles Morales into a hilariously relatable everyman who is suddenly responsible for saving all of reality from a grieving madman.
A Thwippy Hit With Audiences And Critics
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out and delivered a Kingpin-sized hit right when Sony needed one the most. The film earned $394 million against a budget of only $90 million, making this animated adventure an unqualified success at the box office. It was followed by a highly-acclaimed sequel (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), and fans are eagerly awaiting the third film (Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse) that will bring this ambitious trilogy to a satisfying conclusion.
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out, movie reviewers decided that Miles Morales certainly knew how to thwip it good. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 97 percent, with critics praising the movie for its powerful blend of emotional storytelling and cutting-edge animation. They also commended the film for balancing heart, humor, and pulse-pounding action, making Into the Spider-Verse the rare story that delivers literally everything you could want from a superhero movie.
An Award-Winning Superhero Masterpiece
This critical adoration meant it was no surprise when Into the Spider-Verse became an awards darling, earning every single Annie Award (the Annies focus on American animation) it was nominated for, including Best Animated Feature. Additionally, the film took home a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and even an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. The latter achievement was particularly impressive because this was the first time the award had been won by a non-Disney, non-Pixar film in seven years!
When Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was first announced, I had a bad feeling about it: I loved Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy, but after the two Amazing Spider-Man movies, I wasn’t sure if Sony could do these characters justice. Making matters worse was that modern Spider-Man comics writing (including the comics that introduced the Spider-Verse in the first place) was largely hit-or-miss, so I feared we might get a bad adaptation of an already mediocre story. Finally, I thought the animation in the first trailer looked weird and that watching the movie might give me a very literal headache.
Sony Finally Takes A Leap
However, I saw the film in theaters on opening night, and I’ve never been quite so happy to be wrong. The animation is almost hypnotically beautiful, and the film’s top-notch art design helped bring the unique comic book aesthetic to life on the big screen. Plus, the story is both entertaining and powerful, giving us a multiversal tale that is more epic in scope and more moving in execution than anything the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever done.
By every possible metric, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie ever made, one that honors decades of comic history while helping a newer incarnation of the title character take center stage. A good Spidey story always focuses on relationships as much as action, and Miles Morales’ interactions with his family are often powerful enough to make you cry. The same can be said of his interactions with Peter B. Parker, who goes from being a slovenly mentor to someone who realizes how much he has to learn from his pupil.
It’s got killer animation, breathtaking fights, a perfect cast, and a completely unforgettable story. Whether you’re an old-school comics fan or you just enjoy a good blockbuster, you owe it to yourself to stream Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse on Netflix today. Afterward, you can join the rest of us in crossing fingers, toes, and webshooters that Beyond the Spider-Verse brings the house down when it brings this trilogy to a close in 2027.
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Super Bowl 2026 Gatorade shower color: What it was and why people want to know
The Super Bowl is built on tradition. Cracking open a beer, demolishing a plate of wings with friends, filling out Super Bowl Squares, and at this point, betting on the color of the Gatorade shower.
Thanks to the widespread legalization of sports betting and the explosion of prop bets in the U.S., you can now wager on just about anything. Over the past few years, one of the strangest traditions to become fully normalized is betting on the postgame Gatorade dunk, when the winning team douses its head coach in the fluorescent sports drink.
You can currently place wagers on events far more serious than a locker-room celebration, including ongoing global conflicts. Against that backdrop, guessing the color of a sugary sports drink feels almost quaint. Last year, the winning color was yellow at +250 odds, even though purple was the favorite at +175, according to DraftKings via the New York Post.
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Odds vary depending on where you place your bet. On Polymarket, blue currently has the most money behind it, while over at BetMGM, orange is favored at +225, with yellow, green/lime, and blue all trailing closely behind at +260.
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The winner is a back-to-back champ
Sorry, blue bettors, but for the second year in a row, yellow came out on top. The winning Gatorade color once again defied expectations, even though it felt inevitable to anyone closely tracking the odds.
That said, a handful of fans were annoyed by how the result was revealed. Instead of waiting until the final whistle, the broadcast tipped its hand earlier than expected, effectively spoiling the prop bet before the game had officially ended.
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Super Bowl fans celebrate and spiral on social media as the Seahawks beat the Patriots
In what will likely go down as one of the least thrilling Super Bowls in recent memory, the Seattle Seahawks finally got their revenge against the New England Patriots, defeating the AFC champions 29–13 to win Super Bowl LX.
The game got off to a sluggish start, with one of the league’s most explosive offenses in Seattle running headfirst into a relentless New England defense. The same stalemate played out on the other side of the ball, as Drake Maye’s Patriots offense struggled to generate any momentum against Seattle’s top-ranked scoring defense. Dubbed the Darkside Defense, a modern successor to the Legion of Boom, the Seahawks held New England to just 13 points, racking up seven sacks (tying a Super Bowl record) and forcing an interception in the process.
As for Patriots fans, the vibes are bleak.
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And for Seattle fans, the win brought the Seattle Seahawks even more joy. Not only did the franchise secure its second Super Bowl title in team history, but it also avenged one of the most infamous plays in NFL lore.
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Sam Darnold is a Super Bowl champion
The funniest and most satisfying outcome of the win is what it’s done for Sam Darnold’s legacy. Once widely written off as a bust, the Seattle Seahawks quarterback has now won the biggest game of his life. His diehard supporters, who have long and very ironically dubbed him GEQBUS, short for “God Emperor Quarterback of the United States,” are absolutely losing their minds. Over on the subreddit r/the_darnold, fans are firmly on cloud nine, basking in the kind of vindication only a Super Bowl win can deliver.
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Insane, R-Rated 90s Sci-Fi Is A Computer Virus For Your Brain
By Robert Scucci
| Published
I have no issue admitting that when I write movie reviews, I spend some time on Wikipedia and IMDb because I am better with faces than names. I want to make sure I am getting the talent straight when I talk about the characters that talent is portraying, as well as refresh myself on the story. In the case of 1991’s Brain Twisters, however, I had to consult the internet just to figure out what story it was even trying to tell in the first place, because it really does not make any sense at all.
Conceptually, Brain Twisters has a cool R-rated premise, but it limps along like it is aiming for a PG-13 rating. It wants to be sexy, but there is no nudity. It wants to carry itself like a slasher, but there is no real violence. It wants to play out like a sci-fi mystery thriller, but instead feels like a made-for-TV crime drama about a computer program that forces people to go on murder sprees. At least, I think that is what it is going for.
None Of This Makes Sense On Any Level
From what intel I have gathered, I am not alone in my assessment of Brain Twisters. The main story centers on Dr. Philip Rothman (Terry Lenderee), a university professor who runs mind control experiments on student volunteers involving sensory deprivation tanks and a wall of televisions a la A Clockwork Orange. Then a string of murders happens, drawing the attention of Detective Frank Turi (Joe Lombardo), who becomes involved after one of Dr. Rothman’s students, Ted (Shura McComb), commits suicide. This somehow results in a custody battle over his corpse.
Dr. Rothman wants Ted’s head for research purposes, while Detective Frank is more concerned with figuring out whether Ted was involved in the murder of his girlfriend, Denise (Heather Ann Barclay). As the film slowly meanders along, we learn that Dr. Rothman’s experiments are emitting radio waves, or something close to that, which cause his students to kill each other or themselves.
The problem is that Dr. Rothman is apparently unaware of this side effect because the software company financing his experiments never disclosed that information to him. This explanation immediately collapses under scrutiny, since he spends most of the second and third acts behaving in an increasingly unhinged and openly evil manner that suggests he knows exactly what is happening.
Meanwhile, student Laurie Stevens (Farrah Forke) becomes romantically involved with Detective Frank after he cooks her boxed spaghetti, while her promiscuous friend Michelle (Donna Bostany) attempts to seduce Dr. Rothman in exchange for a better grade. That is it. That is the whole movie.
Not Even Charming In A Shlocky Way
When I seek out movies like Brain Twisters, I genuinely try to identify their redeeming qualities. I have devoted an unthinkable number of hours to scraping the bottom of the Rotten Tomatoes barrel and logging onto Tubi in search of hidden or underappreciated gems that were not fully understood at the time of their initial release. More often than not, I am pleasantly surprised, and I report my findings here in case anyone else wants to check out something that was not on their radar but still fits their taste. It ain’t much, but it is honest work.
Brain Twisters, however, has no redeeming qualities, and it rightfully earns its seven percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. It is barely sci-fi, barely horror, and does not even have enough schlock to give it the kind of B-movie charm that lets you appreciate it as a diamond in the rough. Second-rate production values can be forgiven if there is a compelling story underneath them.The unfortunate truth about Brain Twisters is that there is not.
If you want to see what Brain Twisters is all about, you can stream it for free on Tubi. Or you can jam toothpicks under your fingernails if you are looking for a more productive way to spend your time.
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