June 30-July 6: Including Page One and Total Recall

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30th June, 2012

SATURDAY JUNE 30 Spider-Man 3 (TV2, 7.30pm). In which Sam Raimi manifestly fails to heed the lessons of Superman III, Terminator 3, and Star Wars: Episode III. Threequels almost always suck, and when you stuff a movie with too many villains, including Spider-Man himself, and make it two hours and 20 minutes long, that’s a recipe for suckiness right there. Raimi juggles the storylines of villains Sandman (Thomas Haden Church), New Goblin (James Franco) and Venom (Topher Grace), as well as having Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) go all dark ...

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