Anxiety is a monster in Sony’s new Spider-Verse short film

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequel both touched on how difficult it tends to be for superheroes to juggle all of their various responsibilities. But Sony’s new short film, The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, from director Jarelle Dampier and writer Khaila Amazan digs a bit deeper into Miles Morales’ head to emphasize why it’s important for people to share their feelings — especially when those feelings keep you in a constant state of fight or flight. Rather than any specific supervillain, The Spider Within pits Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) against an embodiment of all the anxieties he’s been dealing with while staying on top of his grades, secretly working as a superhero, and hiding his double life from his father... Continue reading…