Hey there, true believers! This week’s “In Theaters Now”
involves the animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse,” the most recent
attempt to translate Spider-man to the big screen. Does it work? Does it fail? More importantly,
if he’s got the powers of spider, why do his webs come out of his wrists?
Shouldn’t they come out of a more . . . abdominal region? And if he “does
whatever a spider can”, doesn’t that mean he should catch thieves, cocoon them
in his web for a while, and then eat them? Wow, that would be a REALLY
different movie . . . [Spoilers: at no time does Spider-man eat any of his
criminal foes. At least . . . not on