CINEMA FOR THE PEOPLE

While The Samurai and The Prisoner may take its time rolling through its four seasonal vignettes, there are elements that will satisfy both fans of good, Columbo-style mysteries and Kurosawa’s dives into the darker parts of the human psyche.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a messy cacophony of sounds and images that serve as a good Spider-Man movie, but also kind of a throwaway.

Director, David Wain’s comedy is inextricable from the people he’s surrounded himself with for over two decades, and the result are movies that feel like a group of friends getting together to do stupidly fun shit.