He lights up when discussing “Sting,” a new low-budget giant spider movie. He says that despite the company’s comfort in handling large-scale effects work, there is room for the team to flex ...

While a killer, mutant spider movie doesn’t necessarily need a solid emotional core to work, Sting places undue emphasis on it anyway, regularly undermining what B-movie thrills it might ...

He might have made a movie about a giant flesh-eating spider, but he's not here to traumatize you. "That's just how I go about things. But then look at a film like Hereditary .

Sting might be only a low-budge spider movie, but it looks great. The apartment house, designed by Fiona Donovon, is ancient and dark, but the rooms are enviably big, and dressed with details ...

And yet, the idea of an actual redback spider coming to nest in Eric Adams’ New York is so terrifying to begin with that “Sting” doesn’t have much to gain from its extraterrestrial twist ...