Written by Anthony Sargon

Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2″ is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watched it in theaters a total of 10 times, and still consider it one of the greatest comic book movies ever made. Spider-Man is hands down my favorite superhero, and the only reason I ever got into in comics in the first place. I didn’t exactly mind the idea of a reboot; in fact it was the only way for me to move on from the traumatic “Spider-Man 3.” I ended up really enjoying “The Amazing Spider-Man” and couldn’t wait to see where the series would go next. While the sequel is a bit of a mixed bag overall, it’s still a highly enjoyable piece of summer entertainment, and includes a final half hour that packs a big emotional wallop. It won’t replace Raimi’s “Spider-Man 2″ as the best Spidey flick yet, but it’s far from being the next “Spider-Man 3.” Director Marc Webb may have bitten off a bit more than he can chew, but he’s delivered a very solid – if not amazing – Spidey adventure.

Newspapers in the United Arab Emirates are reporting that the American drummer for the rock band Scorpions has been sentenced to one month in jail after being convicted of offensive behavior in Dubai.

The government-backed National newspaper reported Tuesday that James Kottak was convicted of insulting Islam, raising his middle finger and being under the influence of alcohol while in transit at Dubai airport.

"Star Wars: Episode VII" finally has its stars. May the Force be with them.

After months of carefully guarded secrecy and endless Internet speculation, the cast of the latest incarnation of the space epic was unveiled Tuesday on the official "Star Wars" website by Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Co.

NBC says Gwen Stefani will be a coach on "The Voice" next season.

The network said Tuesday that Stefani will join Adam Levine, Blake Shelton and another previously announced new coach, Pharrell Williams, on the singing contest's seventh edition.

Looks like George Clooney owes Michelle Pfeiffer a lot of money.

The 52-year-old actor — Hollywood's most determined bachelor, famous for a litany of fleeting loves — has taken himself off the romantic market, even though he once bet Pfeiffer $100,000 that he'd never marry again.

First couple of hip hop Beyonce and Jay-Z are joining forces for a North American tour that will see the husband-wife team stop in 16 cities, they announced Monday.

The "On the Run" tour, which begins June 25 in Miami and ends August 5 in San Francisco, will make stops across the United States, plus Toronto, Canada, the pair said on their web sites.

Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon and his wife, singer Edie Brickell, were arrested over the weekend for disorderly conduct at their Connecticut home, police said Monday.

Police in New Canaan, Connecticut -- a suburb of New York -- said they went to Simon's home on Saturday night to "investigate a family dispute."

Romantic comedy "The Other Woman" shrugged off a barrage of negative reviews to claim top spot at the North American box office this weekend, data showed Monday.

The movie, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Upton and Leslie Mann as three women who gang up on the man they discover has been cheating on them, took $24.8 million on its opening weekend, figures from Exhibitor Relations showed.

When it comes to original programming, Microsoft is going to throw it at the Xbox and see what sticks.

After nearly two years since launching a studio to create new shows to be streamed on Xbox consoles, Microsoft is finally ready to serve an assorted helping of original programming this summer for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. However, viewers shouldn't expect Xbox Originals, as they're called, to be available the same way that content is provided on Netflix and Hulu.

Wiry Zoe Saldana got a kick out of wearing a huge fake belly as she played a young, pregnant wife on the Paris set of the remake of the classic horror tale "Rosemary's Baby."

"Every time I wear the really big ones, it breaks everybody's heart whenever we're doing all those stressful scenes, so I am milking that, I am really milking that," the actress quipped as she sat in a hospital room used as a filming location.