Archive Episode - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (with Simran Hans)
For the final archive episode of 2025, Chris and Alex once again swing their way back into the superhero world of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman, 2018), revisiting their discussion of Sony Pictures Animation’s computer-animated film that featured special guest Simran Hans , film critic and culture writer whose work has appeared in The Observer , The Guardian , Buzzfeed , Dazed , The Fader and Sight & Sound . Lots here on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse ’s unique comic book-style design and the visual “crunch” of its evocative flattened style; the upturned generic qualities of the computer-animated film within contemporary Hollywood; and the growing pervasiveness of superhero cinema that, since the film’s release, has become further reinvigorated by Spider-Verse ’s now highly influential design.