It's the final week of June and due to strange international scheduling of Hollywood releases, there's only one blockbuster releasing this week in East Asia, which otherwise gets to watch the biggest and loudest films ahead of American audiences.

Our pick of the week naturally falls to The Amazing Spider-Man, a complete reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise.

This time round, Andrew Garfield fills in the web slinger's spandex unitard, portraying the Marvel hero as an ordinary Joe whose convictions and choices — and not superpowers — make him who he is. We feel that this one is the definitive version of Spider-Man, easily blowing the Sam Raimi ode to nerds with secret power fantasies out of the water.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan