Empire Magazine Issue 413 (May 2023)

Empire Magazine Issue 413 (May 2023) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse When you look at the biggest cinematic leaps of the last decade, one film stands particularly tall: undeniably, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse changed everything. The most seismic shift in mainstream animated studio movies since Toy Story, its visual wildness (Comic-book inkblot textures! An experimental approach to frame rates! Multiple animation styles within a single frame! Overlapping 2D and 3D textures!) made it feel like audiences were viewing a Spider-Man movie beamed in from another universe altogether. And beyond that, it told an affecting, emotional, ultra-witty story of multiple Spider-People, centred on loveable comics favourite Miles Morales, making his long-awaited big-screen debut. It was an electrifying feat – and that was only the beginning. Get ready for Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the boundary-breaking sequel that tumbles further down all kinds of multiversal rabbitholes.The new issu