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The capitalist's favorite Bible story, the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-30, is the story of a master who gave each of his three servants a different amount of money to invest and bear fruit for him. The first two servants use the money they receive (the equivalent of about $2 million and $800,000 respectively) to make the master a 100 percent profit. The third servant buries the $400,000 he receives in the ground so that he can return to his master exactly what he received. The master rewards the first two servants and punishes the third one. Capitalist Christians often use this story as a proof-text in economic debate to say simply, "See, Jesus endorses capitalism." But there's way more going on here than Jesus' endorsement.
This story illustrates the difference between the two kinds of fear that we find in the Bible. People who bury their gold in the ground exhibit the kind of fear the third servant articulates when he says to his master, "I know you are a hard man, harvesting where you do not sow … so I was afraid" (Matthew 25:24-25). We need to understand the metaphor correctly: this is more than a question of whether someone invests in Treasury bonds or venture capitalism. It concerns our attitude about the gifts and calling we have received from God. Christians who believe that God is a "hard man" instead of an extravagantly generous Father will always choose the safest, most practical, or most "normal" option in any given decision whether it's career, neighborhood, children's activities, or even which restaurants to patronize. Their spiritual goal is to find out exactly what it takes to put themselves and their families right with the mean, scary God they believe in and not add a penny to that. Far too many American Christians live in this state of fearful conformity as evidenced by their increasing migration to homogenized cultural gated communities.
What God desires are disciples like the first two servants who live in a different kind of fear: "the fear of the Lord and the confidence of the Holy Spirit" that caused the early church to "increase in numbers" (Acts 9:31). This fear is the ecstatic awe that arises from an encounter with a living infinite God which makes believers paradoxically fearless before all of the obstacles, naysayers and red tape that stand between them and the dreams God has given them. They are confident that God's breath can blow down every intransigent wall in "the system," which makes them willing to be "heretics" to the logic of the world, to use one of Seth Godin's memes. These entrepreneurs are liberated enough from obsessing over their financial security that they pursue God's calling with the same confidence exuded by the 72 apostles whom Jesus sent out as "lambs among wolves" without taking "a purse or bag or sandals" (Luke 10:4).
Related: Interrupting Inequality — from Wall Street to Your Street — by Shane Claiborne
The entrepreneurs who represent the best of capitalism are very different from the money-changers who represent its worst. Money-changers are people who insert themselves in the nooks and crannies of the economic order where money can be siphoned out, the most prominent example in Jesus' day being the Jerusalem temple vendors. Jews would pilgrimage to the temple from all over the Roman Empire to offer animal sacrifices. The temple vendors had a market because of the difficulty of transporting birds or cattle hundreds of miles for the sacrifice. If a pilgrim came all that way and had to buy a sacrificial animal at the gate for the trip to be worth anything, how much price-gouging do you think those money-changers could get away with? Markups of 500 percent? One-thousand percent? The other way they could gouge pilgrims was through the exchange of Roman money into Tyrian money since Caesar's coins were considered unclean for use in sacrificial purchases. All of this swindling was taking place at Judaism's most sacred site. That's why Jesus whipped them and smashed their tables.
So who are the entrepreneurs and who are the money changers in our economy? It's easier to think of celebrity names to throw out (Bill Gates, entrepreneur; Bernie Madoff, money-changer), but I imagine that most roles, at least in our financial industry, involve a varying mix of entrepreneurship and money-changing. I need to have the integrity to admit that I can't parse out the difference between creating a more efficient flow of capital and creating loopholes where profit can accumulate. Depending on who's telling the story, a company like Bain Capital is either the catalyst for entrepreneurial dreams or a profit-sucking vulture. It seems too easy to try to put it wholly into one category or the other.
What is more relevant to ask is whether our current tax and regulatory system incentivizes entrepreneurship or money-changing. Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban thinks the latter. This is what he wrote in a recent blog post:
The only people who know what business Wall Street is in are the high frequency and automated traders … To traders, whether day traders or high frequency or somewhere in between, Wall Street has nothing to do with creating capital for businesses, its original goal. Wall Street is a platform … to be exploited by every technological and intellectual means possible … Its primary business is no longer creating capital for business. Creating capital for business has to be less than 1pct of the volume on Wall Street in any given period.
According to Cuban's analysis, our economy has become an environment in which the money-changers are choking our entrepreneurial potential. Layer upon layer of superstructure is being added onto the high stakes poker game of Wall Street, which increasingly has little to do with creating products that actually exist in material space. Cuban's proposed solution is not something that either political party would have the courage to say aloud:
My 2 cents is that it is important for this country to push Wall Street back to the business of creating capital for business. Whether its through a use of taxes on trades (hit every trade on a stock held less than 1 hour with a 10c tax and all these problems go away), or changing the capital gains tax structure so that there is no capital gains tax on any shares of stock (private or public company) held for 1 year or more, and no tax on dividends paid to shareholders who have held stock in the company for more than 5 years.
Also by Morgan: Kingdom Politics – Sewing the Great Commandment Back Together
I imagine Cuban is viewed as a wingnut by financial industry experts, but it seems like the predominant attitude about how capitalism is supposed to work has been marked by the same kind of white-knuckled fearful clutch of ideology that the third servant in Jesus' parable had around his master's gold. There is a legitimate beauty behind the wide-eyed utopianism of the capitalism apologists; entrepreneurship is beautiful. But entrepreneurship is not money-changing and anyone who tries to conflate the two is either cynical or ignorant. There is obviously a legitimate economic role for commodity trading, private equity, venture capital and so forth, but it's naive to assume that these processes will take care of themselves unsupervised without becoming giant tumors that emaciate the rest of the economy.
Of course, there would be no parasitic money changers if everyone in our country feared the Lord in the proper biblical sense because we would be "lilies of the field" untainted by the poisonous anxiety that no profit margin is safe enough to guarantee that we will never be poor. This strange anxiety is the carcinogenic DNA that has made our society what it currently is. Jesus told a story about it in Luke 12:13-21. A rich man gathered too many crops in his harvest to fit in his barn, but instead of giving the remainder to the poor, he decided to build a bigger barn. The next day he died, like everyone eventually does.
Better to live as an entrepreneur trusting in God's rich bounty than as a money-changer fearful of the market's scarcity.
Morgan Guyton is the associate pastor of Burke United Methodist Church in Burke, Virginia, and a Christian who continues to seek God's liberation from the prison of self-justification Jesus died to help him overcome. Morgan's blog "Mercy Not Sacrifice" is located at http://morganguyton.wordpress.com. Follow Morgan on twitter at www.twitter.com/maguyton.


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MORRISTOWN — They were married for a decade and had two young daughters.
But somewhere along the way, the relationship deteriorated between Morristown couple Kleber Cordova and his wife Eliana Torres. Then on May 9, 2008, things took a deadly turn.
Cordova, now 33, was found guilty in April on all counts in the 2008 drowning death of his 26-year-old wife in the bathtub of their Morristown home.
Today, he was sentenced to 50 years in state prison for first-degree murder and child endangerment, among other charges.
The couple's then 8-year-old daughter walked into the bathroom upon hearing her mother's screams. The girl, now 12, gave an emotional account of what she saw which proved pivotal to the prosecution's case.
Cordova was sentenced to 45 years for first-degree murder and five years for child endangerment. He must serve 38 years and three months before parole eligibility, Ironson said.
His daughter testified that she saw Cordova holding down Torres in the bathtub as Torres was being submerged with water from the faucet. Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi likened the act to "waterboarding."
Cordova was also convicted of tampering with evidence and two counts of hindering apprehension. The judge gave him two three-year sentences for hindering apprehension to be served concurrently with the longer sentence.
The judge denied a motion by Cordova's public defender, Jessica Moses, for acquittal and a new trial. Moses declined to comment on the sentence.
Cordova, 33, wore an orange jumpsuit and remained stoic as he was sentenced by Superior Court Judge David Ironson in Morristown. Federal immigration authorities have placed a detainer on Cordova, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador.
The victim's sister, Zaida Solis, and mother, Rita Valverde, read statements prior to the sentencing.
"You took happiness away from your own daughters," Valverde said tearfully. The girls now live in Florida with Torres' younger sister. "Let God forgive you because I won't."
Related coverage:
• Morristown man accused of drowning wife in bathtub is found guilty of all charges
• Daughter's testimony is pivotal in father's drowning trial
• Defense's closing argument cites daughter's statement in Morristown bathtub drowning trial

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Security Studies Program Seminar
Jennifer Erickson
Boston College
April 6, 2011
This project represents the meeting of two research agendas: 1) How do states use conventional arms transfers for the purposes of foreign policy, and 2) How do states promote nuclear weapons non-proliferation?
The central question of the project is: How do states resolve the "Dove's Dilemma"? More specifically, do major conventional weapons-exporting states attempt to buy off potential nuclear proliferators with conventional arms transfers, or do they sanction them by threatening to cut off these same transfers? In other words, do states wield conventional arms as a carrot or a stick with potential nuclear states?
The Dove's Dilemma is a concept that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, and it was simply that states had to choose between their nuclear non-proliferation and conventional arms non-proliferation goals. A state like the U.S. couldn't prevent both types of proliferation. Instead, states would have to sacrifice conventional non-proliferation goals to satiate buyer states with conventional weapons if their nuclear ambitions were to be stopped, or vice versa. One could argue that states needed or wanted the weapons for security or prestige, but in either case, they would not be satisfied with neither nuclear nor conventional weapons, therefore "dove" states would have to pick what they considered to be the lesser of two evils.
The logic of buying out states, or using conventional arms as a carrot, is as follows: The seller state can help the buyer state enhance its conventional arsenal, give it access to advanced technology, and perhaps offer a formal or informal security guarantee along with the weapons. In theory, by addressing buyers' security and/or prestige concerns, these then represent significant incentives to the buyer state to not pursue a nuclear arsenal. Such sales could also backfire, however, by enhancing regional tensions through arms build-up and by potentially providing buyers with technology useful for nuclear weapons programs.
On the other hand, seller states can also seek to punish would-be nuclear states by using conventional arms as a stick. In this case, the logic is that by threatening to deprive the buyer states of access to conventional weapons and advanced technology, these states will be less likely to pursue nuclear weapons. Or, if the seller state follows through on these threats, it could also serve as a signal to other potential proliferators of the potential costs of their actions.
The project hypothesizes that there is a significant relationship between conventional arms exports and nuclear weapons development. It then hypothesizes that the relationship will be one of two types: First, that there is a positive relationship, reflecting the buy-out logic, and second, that there is a negative relationship, reflecting the punishment logic.
The project looks at data on the top 15 major conventional arms suppliers and 182 potential importers from 1960-2001 (SIPRI is the data source for major conventional arms transfer data). The idea was to start analysis at a time before the nonproliferation treaty (NPT) and have analysis continue past the end of the Cold War. The dependent variable is major conventional weapons transfers (not small arms), measured in a standardized dollar figure from SIPRI. The key independent variable is the annual nuclear weapons status of potential importers.
The authors find that, in general, those states with nuclear programs receive far greater conventional weapons transfers than those without. Using regression analysis, they found that nuclear weapon states receive, on average, about 77% more total conventional arms imports than those without nuclear weapons programs. Additional models estimating annual transfers from specific exporters to specific importers reveal similar results. Overall, this supports the idea that states are opting for buy-out strategies over punishment strategies, although preliminary evidence suggests that the United States may behave differently from the other top exporters. However, there are some shifts over time. Buy-out strategies seemed prominent from 1971-1984 and then again in 1989, whereas punishment strategies seem to occur from 1995-1999.
Jennifer has just started to consider states for potential case studies. She is considering analyzing the cases of Taiwan and South Korea, as they are both close allies of the United States, faced a strong hostile enemy, and signed a security guarantee with the U.S. In the case of Taiwan, the U.S. sold conventional arms to Taiwan in the 1970s and beyond as a symbol of support and to help Taiwan deter China. President Nixon may have used a buy-out strategy in 1973 for Taiwan's nuclear weapons program, whereas in 1978, President Carter may have shifted to a punishment strategy. In the case of South Korea, their plans for a nuclear weapons program began in 1968. The U.S. discovered the program in 1974-75 and pressured South Korea to join the NPT. The threat of punishment was issued before South Korea abandoned its program, followed by a conventional arms buy-out.
What do states do when they find themselves in Dove's Dilemma? In sum, states use arms to reinforce international rules and norms among nuclear aspirants. Buying out appears to be a stronger, more common strategy than punishment.
Rapporteur: Peter Krause
back to Wednesday Seminar Series, Spring 2011


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Five days a week Shayleen Taylor makes her way to the Jamestown City Jail.
As an investigator for the Chautauqua County Public Defender's Office, Taylor is tasked with making contact with inmates and determining eligibility for counsel. Her presence in jail and in court is possible with state funding for indigent defenders - those who cannot afford legal defense, starting at arraignment.
"Every morning I go to each inmate at the city jail and I ask them, 'Are you working? How much do you make?'" said Taylor, who spends most of her time in a tiny conference room just feet away from the city courtroom.
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Shayleen Taylor talks with an inmate at the Chautauqua County Jail by computer. State funding has allowed a public defender to remain in court during arraignments.
P-J photo by Eric Tichy
"A lot of the inmates aren't working," she said. "We let them know what their charges are; half the time they don't even know what they are being charged."
As part of a pilot project in its third year, an attorney with the Public Defender's Office is present during arraignments of indigent defenders. Members of the office, including Public Defender Ned Barone, rotate to appear in court every morning.
Inmates at the city jail are escorted into the courtroom and are represented by a public defender. Those who post bail or are issued appearance tickets receive the same representation on their court date. Someone from the District Attorney's Office also is present during arraignment.
The goal of the pilot, Taylor said, is to get certain inmates released and avoid incarceration at an overcrowded Chautauqua County Jail. "We will plead to the judge to get a release under the supervision of probation or for community service," she said.
Without representation, many inmates likely would be committed to jail, Taylor said.
A grant from the state Office of Indigent Legal Services has kept an additional investigator in the Public Defender's Office to examine charges and determine eligibility for inmates. The Chautauqua County Legislature has funded a prosecutor to be in court at the same time.
"I think it's important that both parties are in court," District Attorney David Foley said recently.
Investigators handling indigent defenders in Jamestown City Court have a hectic schedule. Taylor said she was hired to work part-time, about 17 hours a week. However, after starting more than two years ago the position changed to a full-time, 40- to 50-hour workweek.
Anywhere from one to a dozen new inmates are interviewed every day in jail. Most cannot afford bail, or an attorney.
"These people can't afford $50 for bail, let alone $500," Taylor said. "I feel that without this project people with a simple harassment (charge) that can't afford bail are going to jail."
"We can now stand up for them and say, 'Look, he's going to work and he doesn't have any prior arrests. Can we just release him?'"
Chautauqua County Sheriff Joe Gerace recently announced plans to form a taskforce to find alternative forms of incarceration. The sheriff said the County Jail is at maximum capacity in certain housing units, and noted some inmates were being shipped to surrounding facilities. The taskforce was expected to organize this month and report to the County Legislature.
Hoping to improve communication with inmates, meetings done through videoconferencing have become commonplace at the County Jail. The system was implemented by the Sheriff's Office three months ago, and allows the Public Defender's Office office to speak confidentially with inmates directly at the jail.
The system has proven so practical, Barone said he can relay an offer by the District Attorney's Office to a client in custody from a laptop at home.
"I can't tell you how helpful this has been for us," Barone said. "When we're trying to help people get out of jail, this allows us to communicate a lot faster and get things moving."
"It could take hours to get processed in the jail and sit down with a client," he said. "I can sit at home and get it done."
When investigating, the video system allows inmates to tell their side of the story. During a recent interview with The Post-Journal, Taylor spoke with two inmates by video - taking notes and requesting contact information to corroborate their versions of events.
Taylor conducts these conferences frequently, and securely, more than 20 miles away from the jail inside a leased office above the courtroom in Jamestown.
"I really enjoy my work," Taylor said. "I love helping those who struggle financially and deserve help."
That depends on who's asked. The legislature last year heard from Barone, Gerace and Foley when funding for the pilot was renewed. Barone noted his office would remain in court regardless due to the grant.
Gerace, however, said the jail had not seen a decrease in population as a result of the pilot project in Jamestown City Court. In fact, he said it was almost impossible to determine what role the pilot plays in population rates.
Foley, who said it was important to keep his office in court during arraignments as well, said of the pilot, "It's hard to quantify the data. There is so much that has to be taken into account."
But Barone views success differently.
"This shouldn't be about looking at the jail population and saying, 'Yes, it's working, or no it's not.' While it would be great if this helped reduce the jail population, it should really be about representing someone who has that basic right to counsel."
"We are able to always have someone in Jamestown Court during arraignments, which is one of the most crucial points in the process. To me that means we have been successful."


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East Syracuse, NY – The Village of East Syracuse has turned over responsibility for registering voters for local village elections to Onondaga County, said village Clerk Pat Derby.
In the past voters eligible to vote in village elections could register with the county Board of Elections or with the village, she said.
The village recently changed its local law and it is no longer registering voters.
People now must be registered solely with the county Board of Elections to be eligible to vote, Derby said.
The clerk warns that some people who in the past were only registered to vote through the village will not be able to vote in village elections on March 19 unless they register with the county.


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Whassup: December Beers Edition
And so this is Christmas...season. If you work in retail, you have my deepest sympathies. All of that Christmas music... If you feel like going postal, seriously, I'd understand. For the rest of us, there still remains the task of putting off Christmas shopping in order to spend money on ourselves in Brooklyn bars. Welcome to Whassup: December Beers Edition:
* Thursday, Dec. 6: Adirondack Brew Takeover, Beirkraft: With winter slowly rearing its global warming-tamed head, the best thing to do is to get pre-drunk before the first cold snap. Because as we all know from the only thing we learned in college, being drunk = invincible. Some fine brewers from the wintry crowns of the Adirondacks are taking over Bierkraft's taps tonight to get you good and started on your winter buzz. They'll be pumping shit like Bear Naked Ale, Imperial Stout, and Red Rye IPA. 7pm, FREE (for entry, the beers still cost money, duh).
* Saturday, Dec. 8: Make Robot Animals!, Brooklyn Robot Foundry: Cool, bizare shit just keeps popping up in Brooklyn. I'd say we're about one Monorail through downtown from becoming a real-life Disneyland. Well, with more peeing in the subways. Anyway, here's another bit of preciousness to coo over: a robot foundry! This one's really for the kids, if you hadn't guessed. An engineer and doctor of education lead this workshop, helping kids do the whole STEM thing in a fun way. Don't know about you, but I would have been that one kid who made an evil robot bear with sharp teeth and rocket launchers in its paws. Is that an option? 12:30pm-4pm, $70.
* Saturday, Dec. 8: Gowanus NITE Market, Film Biz Recycling: Speaking of Brooklyn's transformation into a carnival land, here's this: A monthly conglomeration of vendors, plying their fare amidst the kitsch of Film Biz's movie props. You'll also find a DJ, video game battles, and other childhood-into-adulthood entertainments that today's 20-somethings so love. Every second Saturday. 7pm-Midnight, FREE.
* Saturday, Dec. 8: Biblioball, Bell House: Ain't no party like a librarians' party, cu'z a ***SHHHH***. But, in all seriousness, librarian was a hip, semi-ironic job for young people a couple years ago, so that probably hasn't entirely worn off. 8pm, $23.
* Monday, Dec. 10: Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), Union Hall: You might remember the anthemic indie band from the early 'oughts, Grandaddy, especially if your freshman roommate wrote about music for the school paper. (I'm dating myself.) But, anyway, here's to lead singers from our youths stepping back onstage. 9pm, $15.
* Tuesday, Dec. 11: Christmahanukwanzayear Quiz Thing, Littlefield: Ring in the holidays -- ALL OF THE HOLIDAYS -- the best way possible: by showing off what a smart-ass you are. Answer questions and win prizes from Brooklyn Brewery and other local good places. 7:30pm, $8-10.
* Tuesday, Dec. 11: Whiskey Coke Reading, Freddy's: Brooklyn is a fuckin' literary scene, top to bottom. From the heights of the institution, e.g. Paul Auster, down to the DIY, punk ethos of the "Having a Whiskey Coke With You" kids. It's a curated reading, with bands and open mic afterward. And they will drink you under their table full of zines. 8pm, FREE.
* Thursday, Dec. 20: No Office Holiday Party, Littlefield: FiPS is teaming up with a few Brooklyn bloggers-in-arms (Brooklyn Based, the skint, and Brokelyn) to once again throw an office party for all of you freelancing, coffice-dwellers out there. Or, really, any of you out there that like you some Wyatt Cynac and DJing from the Party Like it's 1999 folks. Getting smashed at Littlefield is the new photocopying your ass and making out with the receptionist. 8pm, $8.


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319 comments found.
PixelGrapes: "Yes you can deactivate the preloader." Could you please tell me how? Thank you.
This is a beautiful theme, I want to keep it. But really I hope it wouldn't take so much time for the page to load.
Hi PixelGrapes, on Product view, why are my sidebars widget showing below the posts? while on the live preview, it's on the right.
I'm using wordpress 3.8
Hi. It's responsive, so if your browser window is shrunk it will be underneath. At full size it should be on the side.
no, it's on the desktop view
PM me a link. Thanks
I gave up, so I uploaded the demo content. Now there are two sidebar widget. The new one displays correctly on the right side. the old one doesn't show now.
Looks like the solution was to deactivate the ajax filter. But now, I have less option. how do I add other taxonomies I have on the filter?
sorry, it wasn't it. i don't know when this plugin was even there. but surely this plugin makes the page loading forever even on desktop.
now i'm wondering, how do I add the filter? I installed it on my virtual server without importing the demo content, I added the shop bar on page builder, but I can't see the category filter.
Hi. Do you have any products assigned to the categories? If a category is empty it won't show.
yes, I have.
There was an update on Nov 25 that affected the sort bar. Did you download the theme after that?
the last time I downloaded the theme was 4 days ago. can u help me point where the php file for this shop-selector is? how do I add custom taxonomies to the filter?
Is the entire short bar missing or just the categories from the drop down? You mentioned you added a shop block to a page template. Do you have the "show sort bar' box checked? An if you want to show all categories, leave the category selection box blank. Then create a page and add your template to the page.
I'm sorry, my mistake. Now I have it checked. as for the taxonomy, there's only categories. how about "tags"or any other taxonomy that I add?
can you help me please? I want a custom taxonomy filter.
how do i get the tag page display like this: http://pixelgrapes.com/demo/shopsy/product-tag/cool/ ? I can't get this masonry look on tag page.
If just only it is written on the theme documentation, I wouldn't have ask this much.
I dont even need this theme, its just so dang pretty I couldn't help but buy it – can't wait to play with it wooo!
How do i remove preloader?
If you go to appearance/editor near the bottom of style.css there is a section called 'Preloader'. You can delete or comment out that section. – Cheers
Hello … I like your theme and have purchased it today. Is it compatible with hebrew Wordpress (RTL) ?
Thank you
Hi. I haven't tested that, but it should work with WP RTL plugin and WPML.
I have a problem with "revolution slider". It ceases to be responsive in RTL (you can see it here: www.mimino.co.il). When I am turning it to LTR it works properly. Plugins, which you mentioned before are not helped. As I understand I should make some changes in "style.css" file. Can you direct me how? Thank you
Send me a PM with a login and I'll take a look for you. – Thanks
How and where to send?
Click on my profile and send a message.
I am not sure why I am getting this error : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in C:\xampp\htdocs\ramai\wp-content\themes\shopsy\page-blog.php on line 106
I get this when I click on the "Blog" page on the main menu.
Please advise and great theme btw!! Very good quality theme.
Hi. Can you try downloading the theme again and replacing page-blog.php
that fixes the issues. Thanks!
how do i get the tag page display like this: http://pixelgrapes.com/demo/shopsy/product-tag/cool/ ? I can't get this masonry look on tag page.
Here the tags & category page displays like a ordinary posts page. not masonry.
sorry for bothering you with my stupid questions.. I have figured it out. tags vs product tags. but I have a request: custom taxonomy filter. that would be really great!
Thank you
Hi. I will look into adding this option in the next major update. Or you can get it customized http://pixelgrapes.com/customization-request/ – Cheers
on woocommerce plugin I found this: "Override this template by copying it to yourtheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php" but by doing that, the category page display are disrupted. What went wrong?
i'm using shopsy child theme
You're overriding the theme archive template which is used for displaying categories.
how do I unlike? clicking the heart again doesn't "un-pink" it.
Only the user that clicked the heart sees it in red. You can only like products, there is no way to unlike them.
what if the user clicked it by mistake, wouldn't be reasonable that there is a way to unlike it?
I love your theme, works beautifully in desktop browsers. My issue is when I view it from my Samsung Note2 mobile browser. The main product listing page comes up fine but as I scroll down weird things started happening. It's hard to explain in words so I thought I would include some screenshots (of your demo site).Issue #1 – looks like a bunch of rectangle boxes show up and they are hiding some of the contents http://www21.speedyshare.com/shpVS/download/Screenshot-2013-12-28-15-54-38.png Issue #2 – the header (where the logo and the menu icon are) seems to move around http://www21.speedyshare.com/T7FKR/download/Screenshot-2013-12-28-15-54-29.png
Can this be fixed?
I see. The samsung note2 is such a big mobile screen. I need to adjust my media queries slightly to accommodate for it. I will upload a fix for this. – Thanks
Wow, thanks for the quick reply. While you're looking at this, could you also test it on iPhone browsers? I'm on iOS7 (brand new phone) and my safari browser keeps crashing after it renders a part of your demo site. Thanks.
Looks okay on my iPhone. Is it crashing with the spinning preloaded showing?
It looks like it's crashing immediately after the spinner disappears and I am able to see some of the web page contents before it crashes. It's a brand new phone w/ no other 3rd party apps installed. If it's only happening on my phone I'm less concerned about it than the galaxy note 2.
Does it happen on the demo? There was an update to remove the preloader on mobile.
Hi! Pre-buy question: when re-sizing to less than 750 px in width the theme aligns all of the content to the left and some other elements break down. Is this issue being addressed and will the fix be available in update?
Other than this, great theme!
Grid items are aligning left. I'll update that this week. – Thanks
Hi Great theme! but… couldn't pin (pinterest) on product page. got this error.. "You need to upload an image or provide the 'image_url' parameter" Any suggestion?
I'll upload a fix so it uses the product image. – Cheers
I found a bug. The header doesn't keep fixed on Ipad & Iphone when I fill a form [ex.: billing address, name, etc]. can you fix this?
Hi. That is native iPhone behaviour so you have more screen room for the form fields. The form 'zooms' in. When you click 'done' the header should reappear.
on small screens, cart gets inside the menu button. how do I get it next to the menu button? and how do I keep the menu button even on large screens? Thanks.
and how do I display posts randomly? (using shop block)
For random posts go to admin/page-builder/shop-block.php
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 50, );
change to:
$args = array( 'post_type' => 'product', 'posts_per_page' => 50, 'orderby' => 'rand' );
Send me a PM and I can help you with the other part of your question. – Cheers
thanks alot. I've been putting the "orderby' => 'rand " on the wrong place before. Just a thought: It would be really great if you can keep featured posts on top of the post list or other place in the post list.
u meant: "Email PixelGrapes" here http://themeforest.net/user/PixelGrapes ? I have already sent messages.
"It would be really great if you can keep featured posts on top of the post list or other place in the post list." => I have done mine.
btw, even without my 'featured post' on top, some of the latter post are overlapped.
Awesome theme. Want to buy, but I have one question before doing so. Is there any way to disable purchasing products altogether? Still have the product pages and what not, but instead of add to cart, can it just be "add to wishlist" or CALL 000-000-0000 for details? We want to have shoppers call us to order.
Yes it's a very simple code change. If you email my profile after you've purchase I can help you with the change. – Cheers
Hello there!
Is version 1.2 up for download somewhere? I'm waiting fro it but on the product description it says it's on version 1.1
Hope to hear from you soon.
All the best,
Hi. Yes, the version available for download now on ThemeForest is version 1.2. You can download the theme again to get the latest updates. – Cheers
I want to disable the "boxes crawling up" animation that. How do I do it?
In js/plugins.js near the bottom, you can delete everything from this line down:
jQuery.fn.visible = function(partial)
It is beautiful and works in chrome. Althought I doesn't seem to work in other browsers. I think It has something to do with the preloader. At first that was te only thing I saw in other browsers. I commented out the css for it and now I can see the site, but can't click anything. I think because the preloader is still there but only colorless, so everytime I want to click on something I click on the invisible preloader. Any suggestions?
It does sound like the preloader overlay is still present. There is also a small preloader section in js/plugins which can be commented out.
Sent in a support ticket last week but haven't heard anything yet. Still fighting quite a few bugs.
Hi. Please see ticket. I don't think you have the latest version. – Cheers
Problems still persisting…sent you a response with some comments.
Sent you a response inline with the old ticket. Not sure if you're getting those. Let me know if you need me to resubmit through your support portal. I've updated and most issues are still there and even present in the demo.
I've sent you a few responses to the last ticket and I'm not getting anything back. If you could open a new ticket it would help me – thanks.
Bummer. Okay. I'll submit new responses through the ticket system.
hi PixelGrapes. thanks for your continuous support all this time. now I've got 3 problems: 1. the view cart/check out is empty on ipad if I shop without login. 2. on the homepage, some products are overlapping 3. on ipad, the left margin is not the same as the right.
thank you
maybe no.1 has something to do with the compression I put on the htaccess?
Hi. #1 is not normal behaviour. It could be an htaccess issue. Is #2 on iPad? Maybe you can private message me a link so I can check it out. I will upload a fix for #3. – Cheers
problem #1 is somehow gone after removing the compression script on htaccess, and still gone even after put the compression script back. So I still don't really know what the problem is. problem #2 has to do with lazy loading plugin. I've made a temporary css fix for #3. and there is something more, there is a conflict with google analytics plugin by Joost Valk, (which is no problem for me, actually).
I found out that if I use variable products, the price div is getting smaller on shop block. It's using the same div .shop-bar .simple-product .amount becomes => .shop-bar .amount width
but with the absent of .simple-product, the total width changes.
or maybe you did it by design? are u preparing a dropdown menu to choose the variation between the price and cart?
or maybe you did it by design? are u preparing a dropdown menu to choose the variation between the price and cart?
just adding info: variable products with different sizes and same price.
It is smaller by design because variable products add the word 'from'. So to fit it in, the price width needed to be smaller.
yes, but when in the case like mine, where I use same price, there is now "from". well, it actually is not a matter. I already add a CSS fix on mine.
Oh I see what you mean. I will look into adding an extra setting. – Cheers
Hi, How do you put a background image in the header ? for now, it is just black a showing the page title. Also, it is possible to remove this long header strip ? Tx David
Hey David. Go to appearance/customize under the 'pages' tab and you can upload a header image. Or you can add a slider to individual pages/posts by entering the slider name in the field (right column). You can remove it, but you will lose the page title. – Cheers
Tx for the answer. What you said works for the slider but not for the header image either to change it (http://snag.gy/Mw2ZO.jpg) or remove it (http://snag.gy/zn8oP.jpg). Any thing that i've missed ? tx
Sometimes if the image is large, it can take a minute for the preview to update. If you upload the image and hit save, does it appear on the actual site? If you private message me a login I can take a look. – Cheers
I used the same header image than the demo. I m sending you a private message now
The category view is broken, even in your demo- http://pixelgrapes.com/demo/shopsy/product-category/exclusive/. Looks like archive-product.php could use some work. It is just echoing out stranded list items (no ol/ul wrapper) and doesn't setup up wrapper for use with masony/animation.
Can you fix this?
Yes, fixed – thanks


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Spiderman 3 is best described as a Mexican soap opera with mind-blowing special effects.
Julian Roman - MovieWeb
Spider-Man 3 is product, but it's a machine that tickles your eyes.
Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
Aesthetically and conceptually wrung out, fizzled rather than fizzy, this latest installment in the spider-bites-boy adventure story shoots high, swings low and every so often hits the sweet spot, but mostly just plods and plods along.
Manohla Dargis - New York Times
As he scampers around the bathtub of popular culture, Spidey is beginning to exhaust everyone's patience.
Peter Bradshaw - Guardian [UK]
The third adventure of the guy with arachnid superpowers tries gamely, is solidly entertaining and possesses dazzling special effects, but it falls short of the near-perfection of the Spidey sequel.
Claudia Puig - USA Today
In an apparent effort to put a stake in the heart of the franchise that threatens to define his career, director Sam Raimi has delivered an overlong, visually incoherent, mean-spirited and often just plain awful Spider-Man 3.
Ann Hornaday - Washington Post
The movie has the curious effect of leaving you over-fulfilled. When it's done, any appetite for another event picture, even one half as well made as this, is temporarily curbed.
Wesley Morris - Boston Globe
A certain twee anachronism has always been part of the Spider-Man tradition -- ditto dexterous, old-fashioned fun. But this summer's first obligatory blockbuster is all thumbs.
Nathan Lee - Village Voice
I'll take a wild guess and say that Spidey fans come for the action and, on that count, they will not be disappointed.
Jack Mathews - New York Daily News
After two epic successes that deserved their success, the latest installment swings between intense action sequences and unaccountably flat dramatic interludes.
Joe Morgenstern - Wall Street Journal
The script is busy with so many supporting characters and plot detours that the series' charming idiosyncrasy is sometimes lost in the noise. Fortunately, it's entertaining noise.
Amy Biancolli - Houston Chronicle
The combat showstoppers, though still too CG to be felt as much as they're admired, should thrill fanboys to no end.
Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
All in all, the fun has simply gone out of it.
Michael Booth - Denver Post
What's missing? Momentum. A touch of meanness. A centrifugal threat like Molina's octopus man. (In terms of dramatic stature, the three villains here don't add up to one Doc Ock.)
David Edelstein - New York Magazine
Laziness mingles with overkill, violence with mawkishness: most of the characters weep at the slightest provocation, but heads are beaten, burned, and sheared off by passing subway trains.
Anthony Lane - New Yorker
Too many villains, too many pale plot strands, too many romantic misunderstandings, too many conversations, too many street crowds looking high into the air and shouting "oooh!" this way, then swiveling and shouting "aaah!" that way.
Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
It's as if director Sam Raimi felt he had to give us more of everything, and in the process lost sight of what made the first two films so enjoyable.
Richard Roeper - Chicago Sun-Times
Three films in, how is New York's premier webmaster holding up? Not badly; not spectacularly.
Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune
Director Sam Raimi tries to pump some life into this dutiful enterprise but seems more than a little bored himself, especially when he's getting mushy about Spider-Man's moral decline and regeneration.
Jonathan Rosenbaum - Chicago Reader
Spider-Man 3 kicks off this Summer of Sequels in big, loud, occasionally clever, but more often meandering ways. It's not dull, exactly, but neither is it much fun.
Steven Rea - Philadelphia Inquirer
It's mostly enjoyable. But it's a limping effort compared with the first two. The trilogy hobbles to a finish when it should have soared.
Colin Covert - Minneapolis Star Tribune
What's worse is that after a fairly pedestrian opening, director Sam Raimi loses all control of the film as it rambles from storyline to storyline in search of a center.
Tom Long - Detroit News
No matter how much it costs and what its flaws, Spider-Man 3 still gets a lot of bang for the buck.
Bill Goodykoontz - Arizona Republic
Over-produced, over-publicized, over-designed, over-computerized and just plain over the moon, it's so preposterously overwrought with so many bewildering plots juggling simultaneously for over-emphasis, there's no entry point for criticism.
Rex Reed - New York Observer
After the significant improvement of the second installment over the first, new entry reps a roughly equivalent dip in quality and enjoyment, with Spidey now giving off the faint odor of running on fumes.
Todd McCarthy - Variety
Despite director Sam Raimi's near-desperate determination to top the earlier films and tie up loose ends, he does deliver a handsome product with some spectacular special-effects sequences.
Lou Lumenick - New York Post
Raimi's everything-including-the-kitchen-sink third film robs the Spider-Man movie myth of its lightness. He has taken something heartfelt and witty and reduced it into just another comic-book movie.
Roger Moore - Orlando Sentinel
What's with all the crying? Both heroes and villains shed tears so readily, you almost want to stand up mid-screening and ask director Sam Raimi to stop the projector so everybody can have a group hug.
Peter Howell - Toronto Star
The result? Predictably, by the time of the big, swinging-through-the-concrete-canyons climax, we've pretty much lost interest.
Rick Groen - Globe and Mail
Raimi at least manages to make it both huge and human.
Stephanie Zacharek - Salon.com
It's odd to think of Spider-Man 2 as a small movie, but next to the clanking, wheezing contraption that is Spider-Man 3, that $784 million-grossing megahit feels like some little Sundance indie.
Dana Stevens - Slate
One has to consider that the film's problems -- and they are numerous -- may be the product of the franchise's runaway popularity.
James Berardinelli - ReelViews
Left dangling for the past three years, arachnophiles everywhere finally have cause to celebrate.
Michael Rechtshaffen - Hollywood Reporter
Spidey the Third feels like an even greater letdown following Spidey Part Deux, which was the rare sequel that surpassed the original.
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
I liked it. To place a sensitive story in a male-epic genre -- to dramatize feelings of angst and personal betrayal worthy of an Ingmar Bergman film, and then to dress them up in gaudy comic-book colors -- is to pull off a smartly subversive drag show.
Richard Corliss - TIME Magazine
My guess is that when the summer blockbuster season finishes pummeling us with formula, Spider-Man 3 is going to look like one of the few that was touched by human hands.
Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
[Spider-Man 3 has] an ungainly, cumbersome feeling, as if its plot elements were the product of competing contractors who never saw the need to cooperate on a coherent final product.
Kenneth Turan - Los Angeles Times
This is at least two movies crammed into one, and the seams are splitting; three villains, two love interests and a partridge in a pear tree means that Spider-Man has to fight for attention in his own film.
Ali Gray - TheShiznit.co.uk
Another third installment, another arrested adolescent gone wild
Fernando F. Croce - CinePassion
Sam Raimi and company should have ... made a movie and not an f/x tapas plate.
Peter Keough - Boston Phoenix
You know that the third Spider-Man had to be bigger. The third movie in a franchise goes for broke. And Spider-Man 3 is bigger, if not better. It's overdone, overlong, and overplotted. It's all over the place. This does not mean Spider-Man 3
Tony Macklin - Fayetteville Free Weekly
At 141 minutes, this supe-opera is seriously overextended, with four distinct subplots and way too much hand-wringing over things like the heroine's singing career.
Bob Mondello - NPR.org
Vic Holtreman - ScreenRant
It is like a buffet. You look at the cast and trailers and you just start drooling over all the options. But they just overdid it, stuffing you with filler, and the juicy part of the film didn't start until it was halfway through.
Jeff Bayer - The Scorecard Review
The third Spider_Man film is a bit like a web that's been hanging in a dusty corner for years: it's so weighted down with sticky bits and pieces of past detritus that it's in danger of being ripped apart by the new prey.
Steve Biodrowski - ESplatter
An everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink production that thrives on its boundless energy and the sheer audacity of its vision.
Rossiter Drake - San Francisco Examiner
Spider-Man 3 is so burdened by the need to outshine its predecessors that it sinks beneath the weight of its own extravagant excesses.
Brandon Fibbs - Colorado Springs Gazette
Different in all the right ways-- a complex, unpredictable attempt at giving its audience a lot to chew on. Pardon those of us who will take a flawed opus over bloated unoriginality.
Bruce Bennett - Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Kids will be dazzled, but the story falls short of No. 2.
Sandie Angulo Chen - Common Sense Media
Another fine installment in this very fun and exciting comic book superhero movie series.
JoBlo - JoBlo's Movie Emporium
There were more subplots meringued together than a single film can eat. With a twinge more fluff whipped in, this could have easily been Spider-Man 4, too.
Adam Fendelman - HollywoodChicago.com
It ends the trilogy not with a bang but neither with a whimper.
Tim Brayton - Antagony & Ecstasy
It's been a fine if bumpy ride with Raimi down this corridor of Marvel Comics history, even if I'd love to see him working on something cheap and scrappily funny again.
Rob Gonsalves - eFilmCritic.com
There are one too many teary redemptions, one too many airborne rescues and, finally, one too many climaxes. But we'll forgive Mr. Raimi his excesses.
Joe Lozito - Big Picture Big Sound
This third film is awful, it's sloppy, and it's mishandled in every aspect...
Felix Vasquez Jr. - Cinema Crazed
Spider-Man 3 is impressive even in light of the fact that its unwieldy ambition often does more harm than good.
Rob Humanick - Stranger Song
Sudeci po tome koliko je ovaj Spiderman potrosen, bilo bi bolje da se snimi remake.
Dragan Antulov - Index.hr
A successful bit of thoughtful escapism that balances the sensory thrills of the number one with the more serious thoughts of number two.
Steven Snyder - Zertinet Movies
While many other franchises have infamously fizzled out on their third installment, Spider-Man 3 is a creative and technical triumph.
Greg Maki - Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
All told, the film is still moderately entertaining, although the individual parts are certainly greater than their sum as a whole.
Jim Judy - Screen It!
The point of Spider-Man 3, underscored by all the posters, trailers, and buzz, is black Spidey.
Cynthia Fuchs - PopMatters
Spider-Man 3 [is] an enjoyable, if inconsistent entry in the superhero genre.
Lori Hoffman - Atlantic City Weekly
What should have been a tightly focused narrative revolving around Peter, his girlfriend Mary Jane and his best friend-turned-worst enemy Harry Osborn instead becomes a sprawling mess that awkwardly attempts to make room for two additional villains.
Ethan Alter - NYC Film Critic
Terrifically entertaining.
Scott Huver - Hollywood.com
Don't even expect coherence.
Stuart Klawans - Nation
Stuart Klawans - The Nation
despite narrative bloat, it maintains much of the giddy-enthralling energy and emotional pathos that made its predecessors the very definition of great popcorn moviegoing
James Kendrick - Q Network Film Desk
un produit plutot fade qui essaie enormement sans trop savoir ce qu'il fait.
Jean-Francois Vandeuren - Panorama
Spectacular. Sensational. Amazing. All adjectives used to describe Spider-Man in the Marvel comic books. All appropriate for Spider-Man 3.
Forrest Hartman - Journal News (Westchester, NY)
Falls prey to Hollywood sequel subterfuge - namely, that bigger is always better.
Mark Sells - Oregon Herald
It's a huge budget Hollywood comic book blockbuster, you're going to see it anyway, and I'm not going to try to stop you.
Eric Lurio - Greenwich Village Gazette
The utterly simplistic theme of revenge weaves through this jumbled hodge podge of depthless character stories.
Wesley Lovell - Oscar Guy
Wesley Lovell - Cinema Sight
Sam Raimi does a competent job on Spider-Man 3, but the franchise is getting a trifle tired.
Philip French - Observer [UK]
The topper is Bruce Campbell's appearance as a French waiter. Campbell, who worked with Raimi in the early Evil Dead days, is hilarious as a snotty waiter whose help Peter enlists for a "perfect" romantic evening.
Beth Accomando - KPBS.org
Spider-Man 3 is an 'almost' success...it 'almost' has us convinced that this trilogy will transcend its blockbuster necessities to mean something more - either as art, precedent, or simply a great way to spend some time at the Cineplex.
Bill Gibron - PopMatters
Pick two storylines, maybe, with one main villain. (I vote for Sandman, since the daughter angle is heart-tugging and complicates Spidey's moral code.)
Gina Carbone - Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
As the Goblin and Sandman and whatnot multiply and start whizzing about, the proceedings in this grand hodgepodge are so disordered that it would be no surprise were a Nazg? wing into the scene, perhaps ridden by Dr. Zaius.
Thomas Peyser - Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
If you're presold on it, you're likely to forgive the film's flaws -- or at least try to. If not, you'll rarely have been so glad to see the ending credits finally start.
Ken Hanke - Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It seems likely that few viewers will walk away from the movie flat-out disappointed.
David Nusair - Reel Film Reviews
It would be more suited as a Fantastic Four sequel.
Mark Palermo - Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
SPIDER-MAN 3 is kicking off the summer movie season and doing it with a bang
Ted Murphy - Murphy's Movie Reviews
It leaves you with the feeling that the allure, the intensity of the excitement, the repeatable satisfactions are... petering out.
Jules Brenner - Cinema Signals
Let's just say it's my third-favorite Spider-Man movie.
Jim Lane - Sacramento News & Review
Despite having a storyline scattering in too many directions, Spider-Man 3 is a visually stunning and entertaining movie that upholds the immensely popular series.
Michael Black - ReviewExpress.com
Spider-Man 3 is three, maybe four movies clumsily crammed into one.
David Cornelius - eFilmCritic.com
Even though Tobey Maguire does self-regarding jackass pretty well, he lacks a comedian's light touch.
Bryant Frazer - Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
The performances are top notch and the film, which gets off to a bang and ever lets up, is a great tribute to a great subject told by a master storyteller.
Michael A. Smith - Nolan's Pop Culture Review
Despite all its excesses, all the hangers-on and nepotism, it is also entertaining in its own overwrought way.
Robert Roten - Laramie Movie Scope
All the plot of a 6-issue comic book story arc cleanly edited into a 2-hour and 20-minute movie.
Kevin A. Ranson - MovieCrypt.com
Seventy-five minutes into it, I check my watch and groaned, realizing from the preview that we haven't even introduced all the story lines yet...sloppy, heart-rendingly annoying, with scenes of professional embarrassment
Karina Montgomery - rec.arts.movies.reviews
Spidey is really a one-trick pony whose trick we saw plenty of in the first installment.
Jean Lowerison - San Diego Metropolitan
Too many characters is not the problem with this film. Raimi actually juggles everyone fairly well. It's the expectation game. We expect Spiderman 2 level excellence and we get Spiderman 1.5. Everything is just a little off, or takes a step back.
Michelle Alexandria - Eclipse Magazine
Okay, I'm calling it. Best year for movies ever. Now don't let me down, Hollywood. Spider-Man 3 is better than Spider-Man 1 and 2 combined. It's The Outstanding Spider-Man.
Fred Topel - Can Magazine
Notwithstanding a cute scene in which Peter enlists suave maitre d' Bruce Campbell to help him propose to Mary Jane, director Sam Raimi's juggling of the comedy and the action is unusually flat-footed.
Joe Williams - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Nap time. Perhaps it's the weight of expectations, the rattle of a zillion calculators or the curse of Bryce Dallas Howard (forever our Lady in the Water), but the latest Spider-Man is a fussy, dispirited affair.
Joshua Rothkopf - Time Out New York
Like Woody Allen in a mask and stretchy pants, he's your friendly neurotic Spider-Man.
Kam Williams - EURWeb
It continues to use secondary characters brilliantly, allowing them to add depth and humour to the proceedings.
Brian Webster - Apollo Guide
Offering better action, unrivaled special effects, and yet another inner struggle for our main protagonist, "Spider-Man 3" is most certainly the must-see event of the summer.
Jason Zingale - Bullz-Eye.com
If most of the characters in this edition seem to be zigzagging in confusing fashion from good to bad and back again, the awesome production is forturnately in safe hands as usual with director Sam Raimi putting the human touch above the dizzying and dazz
Pete Hammond - Maxim
Given the enormous $258,000,000 estimated budget for this movie, you'd think somebody would have given a moment's consideration to the script.
John J. Puccio - DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio - Movie Metropolis
As a wildly expensive popcorn movie, it delivers the goods nicely enough. Best of all, it's quite funny. ... Maguire is never better than when he's finally allowed to be mean.
Steve Rhodes - Internet Reviews
Spider-Man 3 is a likeable film -- Maguire's personality, or Raimi's channeled through him, is genuinely charming. But the tenor of the film is too often too muted, melancholy and enervated for something of its size.
Shawn Levy - Oregonian
The film doesn't teem; it just seems cluttered - a collection of scenes, and occasionally great visuals or gags, strung together by an inadequate plot.
Dean Essner - Daily Telegraph
[There are] some ill-advised stretches of solemnity, and there's no excuse for the po-faced homily at the film's end. But with Raimi, such slip-ups are still worth indulging.
Sandra Hall - Sydney Morning Herald
Sam Raimi tries really hard to tie up loose ends in "Spider-Man 3," overloading our poor threesome with danger from all sides in attempting to keep the franchise fresh. And though repetition seems to be inevitable, I found the new villainy to be effective
Angela Baldassarre - Sympatico.ca
... cobbled together, with too many story lines shooting out in different directions before wrapping around and bowing up neatly as a parable about the power of forgiveness at the end.
Philip Martin - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Spider-Man 3 is crammed with goodies.
Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide's Movie Guide
He [Sam Raimi] gives both fanboys and fangirls their money's worth as he packs the movie with whopping action and domestic weepiness.
Michael Sragow - Baltimore Sun
Strangles itself in a web of pomposity.
Christopher Tookey - Daily Mail [UK]
An extravagant three-ring circus of a movie from director Sam Raimi, but it's not without a struggle.
Tom Charity - CNN.com
Entertaining in parts, but there's no denying that this is the weakest of the three.
Christopher Smith - Bangor Daily News (Maine)
The film's biggest problem is the same one that dogs every action-hero series: How long can you keep upping the ante before turning into self-parody?
Andy Klein - Los Angeles CityBeat
There's oodles of sub-stories, and drama galore...
Emily Blunt - Blunt Review
This is the stuff of Douglas Sirk, not comic books, and while that is bound to strike some fans as just plain wrong, it is a refreshing new take on an old story.
Pam Grady - Reel.com
A browbeating domino effect of more, more, more with special effects that make things easier to see but harder to care about. With great filmmaking power has come great filmmaking laziness that turned a good franchise into candy-colored crud.
Nick Rogers - State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
Deserves two scores - one for outlandish ambition and effort, another for crazily juggled execution...Still, it doesn't really cohere in a deeply fulfilling way.
Brent Simon - FilmStew.com
... Watching Spider-Man 3, as my hopes took on the taste of ashes in my mouth, I felt the sad, gloomy pall that falls across any piece of entertainment when passionate innovation is replaced by profitable repetition.
James Rocchi - Cinematical
I'm no fanboy, but I love these movies.
Dave White - Movies.com
For all its problems and miscalculations, the film is fascinating and gutsy in its sheer strangeness.
Eugene Novikov - Film Blather
A hollow shell of a saga devoid of both thrilling action and rousing passion.
Nick Schager - Lessons of Darkness
The "Spidey vs. himself" theme feels fresh to me, and the movie subsequently avoids that "three-peat burnout" that affects many film series.
Mike McGranaghan - Aisle Seat
Not as sinister as expected, but Raimi has spun a deft exercise in popcorn thrills. Hold on and enjoy.
Jonathan Dean - Total Film
What saves the enterprise is its moral centre: there are consequences in this universe; every action has a reaction, and every chain of events has a serious fallout.
Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central
It's a towering disappointment.
James Christopher - Times [UK]
It's the biggest, most exciting Spidey of 'em all!
Scott A. Mantz - Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews
Magnificent 1st act, but flounders substantially for almost an entire hour. Loose ends begin to meet before a rather formulaic tie up. Does not outperform the first two films.
Ross Anthony - Hollywood Report Card
Spider-Man 3 may disappoint those who think tongue-in-cheek spectacle is the only name of the game.
Derek Malcolm - This is London
At the screening I attended -- which was packed with real people, not just movie reviewers -- I thought I detected an actual slump of puzzlement at the end, as the movie's final scene sank slowly into a bog of unexpected mush. I'll say no more.
Kurt Loder - MTV
"Don't shoot, fellas: it's the bass player from Fall Out Boy!"
Pete Vonder Haar - Film Threat
'Spider-Man 2' was one of the best films of its kind; by comparison, '3' registers as a perfectly acceptable, often compelling sequel... that achieves most of its goals but doesn't break much new ground.
James Sanford - Kalamazoo Gazette
The visceral stuff - the fighting and chasing - is great. The comedy is funny. But the film unravels with no emotional charge and you'll be pretty restless during the climactic apologies.
Matthew De Abaitua - Film4
The tone is ultimately more subdued than your average superhero movie. Kudos to Raimi for making it feel justified.
Ben Walters - Time Out
Raimi and company have woven more graceful patterns in the past; this one simply doesn't cohere.
Kevin Lally - Film Journal International
Despite a few knots in the story, that trademark combo of warmth, wit and charm keeps you hanging.
Stella Papamichael - BBC
The highly disappointing Spider-Man 3 has its touching moments, to be sure, but they're few and far between.
Shlomo Schwartzberg - Boxoffice Magazine
Everyone's favourite arachnid returns in his slickest, smartest and darkest movie yet.
David Edwards - Daily Mirror [UK]
Spider-Man 3 is better than most comic book-based superhero action epics, but not as satisfying as the first two installments of this multi-billion dollar franchise. I guess familiarity breeds disrespect.
John Griffin - Montreal Gazette
I liked that last Spider-Man so much that I walked into 3 will a full head of residual good will. But after 2 1/2 hours of empty summer movie, my supply was pretty much exhausted.
Robert W. Butler - Kansas City Star
If there's a moral to be gleaned from Spider-Man 3 -- aside from the fact that heavily promoted franchise movies tend to rake in megabucks -- it's this: Movies don't necessarily need to hit grand slams to score.
Robert Denerstein - Denver Rocky Mountain News
Not an awful film by any means. But you don't need spidey sense to know this isn't a patch on its prequel.
Stuart McGurk - thelondonpaper
Sure, it's a bit overstuffed and definitely over the top, but damn it if I didn't love every moment of it.
Kevin N. Laforest - Montreal Film Journal
The effects are amazing and fans will enjoy the references to the comics, but the film is something of a disappointment overall because it tries to do too much.
Matthew Turner - ViewLondon
Spidey promised bigger, bolder and better. Turns out he's a two-faced liar.
Mike Ward - Richmond.com
There's much too much goo over our hero's moral decline and sudden redemption.
Dennis Schwartz - Ozus' World Movie Reviews
After spinning two wonderful superhero yarns, Raimi and his collaborators appear to be running low on the webbing of inspiration.
John Beifuss - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
The first film in the series I'd choose to describe as "sloppy," and given the money and talent behind these flicks, that's one serious disappointment.
Scott Weinberg - FEARnet
The webslinger's nimble, the action is intense but it's not the best of the franchise.
Susan Granger - www.susangranger.com
More is not better, even if it costs a reported $250 million. A good adventure story is better. A strong, well-examined villain is better. Lean and a little meaner is better.
Jack Garner - Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Third time proves to be sticky.
Dean Essner - Independent
Spider-Man 3 is top-notch entertainment but still fails to live up to the previous two outings.
Johnny Vaughan - Sun Online
Spider-Man 3 fails to enliven. It doesn't have the satisfying, jolting rush that makes you leave exclaiming, 'Wow! I can't wait to see that again!'
Randy Shulman - Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
More turns out to be less in this hectic, overstuffed and underwhelming film that still delivers the goods - though without the electricity and charm of Raimi's first two chapters.
Sean Means - Salt Lake Tribune
As last year's Bond reboot Casino Royale made obvious, less is the new more. Spider-Man, stop your engines.
Terry Lawson - Detroit Free Press
At 140 minutes, it's not a difficult movie to sit through. It's just difficult to enjoy.
Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle
Although Spider-Man 3 bites off a bit more than it can chew in the plotting department, it doesn't skip on character development, which is a hallmark of this series and the thing that sets it apart from its superhero kin.
Eric Melin - Scene-Stealers.com
This is a wonderfully imagined, heartfelt piece of pop entertainment that soars not only for its spectacular eye candy, but also during the moments when its protagonists simply stand still and talk to each other.
Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald
Peter's 'dark' night is a lot more fun than a certain Dark Knight, and indicative of a comic-book franchise that never loses its mission to engage and enthrall.
Dean Essner - Los Angeles Daily News
Maguire has made Peter/Spidey all his own; the supporting characters are marvelous, but it's his brave, soulful work that pulls it all together.
Moira MacDonald - Seattle Times
Simply put, things are just too crowded in Spider-Man 3 ... [but] I still had a wonderful time with the movie because so many of the themes and elements are familiar.
Jeffrey Chen - ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Spider-Man 3 offers a touching portrait of the need for humility in the face of great success. It's a lesson the creators of this oversized blockbuster-in-waiting might have taken a little more to heart.
Christopher Orr - New Republic
Watching Spider-Man 3, you more than once get the impression that, for the principal artists and technicians who've been with the series from the get-go, the thrill has somehow gone out of it for them this time around.
Scott Foundas - L.A. Weekly
Spider-Man 3 is far from a flop, and I'm sure the Spider-maniacs will eat it up. For me, it's a buffet without much aftertaste.
Peter Rainer - Christian Science Monitor
The sequences of romantic struggle and heartache prove unusually touching for a superhero movie.
Gregory Weinkauf - UberCine
Christopher Orr - The New Republic
Spider-Man 3 isn't a bad film -- many scenes, taken on their own, are thrilling and even moving -- but it indicates a downward spiral that leaves you not wanting to see what's in store for Spider-Man 4, but rather, dreading it.
Kevin Williamson - Jam! Movies
(Sam) Raimi, otherwise near-perfect in transitioning his once spider-bitten hero from Marvel Comic book to movie screen, has given in to overkill and over-thrill.
Larry Ratliff - San Antonio Express-News
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Joseph Proimakis - Movies for the Masses
Raimi likes to put offbeat actors instead of big stars in key roles, and it pays dividends again.
Gary Thompson - Philadelphia Daily News
Little wonder that when forced to contend with three supervillains and his own inner demons, Parker's overwhelmed. As will be audiences.
Alex Markerson - E! Online
The action scenes are a blast, and there are some welcome comedic elements -- including yet another scene-stealing bit by J.K. Simmons, as sleazy newspaper publisher J. Jonah Jameson.
Jeff Vice - Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Did Batman & Robin teach us nothing?
Sean O'Connell - Filmcritic.com
It's a dynamic Spider-Man movie. Most of the familiars are back, the additions work well enough, the movie often looks terrific and excess length (about 15 minutes) is just the pad built into these piled-up projects.
David Elliott - San Diego Union-Tribune
His entanglements are more contrived this time around, but Spidey still spins a good yarn.
Linda Cook - Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
a perfect way to start the summer movie season and excite the 8-year old boy or girl inside all of us.
Willie Waffle - WaffleMovies.com
No one will feel cheated -- the movie isn't a careless cop-out -- but somehow Spidey has gotten tangled up in his overlong, overdone and underthought web.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It's as if director Raimi ingested a ton of Spidey comics, chased them with some crappy romance novels, and barfed the whole discordant mess onto the screen.
Bob Grimm - Reno News and Review
Spider-Man 2... was alive with humor and humanity and spirit and soul. All of that is missing here.
MaryAnn Johanson - Flick Filosopher
Both overstuffed and undernourished...in the comics the Web-Slinger has occasionally lost his grip and come crashing to earth, and that's what happens here, too.
Frank Swietek - One Guy's Opinion
As is a rule with most sequels, Spider-Man 3 is bigger and vaster in scope than its predecessors. Where it bucks the trend is in its decided superiority over them.
Dustin Putman - DustinPutman.com
There's plenty of action, and the bulk of it is immensely enjoyable.
Thom Koschwanez - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It seems like the product of a filmmaking team with more money than ideas.
Carla Meyer - Sacramento Bee
What's left is about as thrilling as walking into a cobweb.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) - St. Paul Pioneer Press
[It] moves at such a fast and entertaining pace that you can't help but enjoy the ride.
Daniel M. Kimmel - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
a bit of a let down after the popcorn high that was Spider-Man 2.
Sean McBride - Sean the Movie Guy
A top-heavy, slow-moving and even carelessly assembled collection of often inexplicable tangents.
Duane Dudek - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
This third instalment feels surprisingly uneven, even as it keeps us utterly entertained for the lengthy running time.
Rich Cline - Shadows on the Wall
Too many villains. Too many plots. And way too many tears. Boy, is there a lot of crying in this movie.
Nell Minow - Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
...its variety of stories makes this sketchy feature entertaining for the non-fans dragged to it by their Significant Others.
Robin Clifford - Reeling Reviews
Despite its many flaws, I still essentially enjoyed the film, if not nearly as much as the previous ones.
Eric D. Snider - EricDSnider.com
The best installment of the saga yet, in large part because its villains are so much more compelling than those past.
Phoebe Flowers - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
'With great power comes great responsibility,' said Uncle Ben in Spider-Man. That's a message I wish the people behind this series would take to heart.
Lawrence Toppman - Charlotte Observer
Contains some of the most joyously nutty sequences ever to grace a summer blockbuster.
Jeffrey M. Anderson - Combustible Celluloid
It's schizophrenic pacing and apathy towards its audience's acceptance means the film never needs to be seen more than once, if that.
Edward Havens - FilmJerk.com
The film doesn't lead me to bouts of depression and thoughts of suicide as it apparently does other fans, but it's clearly no match for the first two titles.
Matt Brunson - Creative Loafing
When it comes to comic book films, this will become the gold standard by which all subsequent films are judged against.
Jeffrey Lyles - Gazette (MD)
There are three amazing movies wrapped up in Spider-Man 3, but they've been webbed together and delivered as one pretty good one.
Joshua Tyler - CinemaBlend.com
Go-for-broke pop entertainment...more action, more humor, and more nastiness than either previous installment, often in loopy combinations.
Peter Canavese - Groucho Reviews
Raimi and his collaborators have fallen into the same traps that have ensnared both the Batman and X-Men franchises. Too much often resulting in not enough.
Erik Childress - eFilmCritic.com
On the ground, Spider-Man 3 is dreary. But in the air, it swings.
Noel Murray - AV Club
The first major summer movie of 2007 is going to leave fans very happy and probably justify repeat viewings long into the warmer months.
Brian Tallerico - UGO
Mean Spider-Man wrecks city streets for no reason, makes sarcastic remarks, interpretive dances and is actually pretty funny. You'd want to hang out with Mean Spider-Man and talk over beers about what a tool Nice Spider-Man is.
Phil Villarreal - Arizona Daily Star
If anything, Spider-Man 3 is another rude awakening as to just how important character development, especially in regards to its villains, and pacing is.
Bill Clark - FromTheBalcony
Raimi makes just about every wrong move in the sequel playbook, substituting scope and scale for the warmth and wit that made those two previous pictures so memorable. In this case, more is less.
Sean Burns - Philadelphia Weekly
When cascading through the cityscape, Spider-Man 3 still makes us gasp with delight, but on Earth those gasps come solely in reaction to the cynical dreariness of the script.
Marjorie Baumgarten - Austin Chronicle
Raimi still tells an entertaining, coherent and poignant story despite the bloated production.
Jeffrey Westhoff - Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
There are so many super-villains buzzing around like flies in Spider-Man 3 that the web of plots, subplots, flashbacks and unnecessary character amplifications makes it feel more like Spider-Man.
Bruce Newman - San Jose Mercury News
Stuffed to bursting — with action, plotlines, characters, humor, energy, moods, spectacle and certainly inspiration.
Steven D. Greydanus - Decent Films Guide
The film actually leaves you hoping Raimi and Maguire will return for one more shot at making the definitive Spider-Man movie, because 3 isn't it.
Rebecca Murray - About.com
Raimi reinvents a daring sexed up Spidey, served with a devilish mean streak and a side of cool.
Prairie Miller - Long Island Press
If you ever wondered what the Power Rangers could do with a $250 Million budget, just wait for the silly climax
Mike Sage - Peterborough This Week
Despite an overwhelming sensation of been-there, done-that Tobey Maguire and company inject enough fresh material into Spider-Man's third outing to keep both fans and converts happy. Or happy enough.
Jeanne Aufmuth - Palo Alto Weekly
These people know what the hell they're doing, and after five years of practice, they're not about to drop the ball now.
Rob Vaux - Flipside Movie Emporium
A stirring morality play about the importance of choices in our lives, especially in regard to love, friendship, power, and forgiveness.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat - Spirituality and Practice
If the first sequel was superhero movie as soap opera, this is it approaching opera.
Mark Dujsik - Mark Reviews Movies
Dunst sings, Maguire stagnates, the script sags, and goo from outer space takes center stage. Here's what else is wrong with 'Spiderman 3.'
David Foucher - EDGE Boston
Spider-Man 3 is like a boomerang in a basement. It bounces all over the place, occasionally hits something solid and never settles in.
Matt Pais - Metromix.com
While the preview makes this one look a little more dark and sinister, it's really not.
Paul Salfen - Supercala.com
With a sequence that threatens to turn the movie into Spider-Day Night Fever ... Raimi proves himself to be the gutsiest superhero-director working today.
Jeffrey Overstreet - Christianity Today
I was pretty impressed with how the script managed to juggle so many characters at once and actually make them relevant. Batman Forever this is not.
Kevin Carr - Film School Rejects
Peter Parker may be past growing pains - he's a full-fledged adult in Spider-Man 3 - but his film franchise is beginning to suffer them.
Josh Larsen - Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
This is, for all intents and purposes, a fine movie that will do a very efficient job entertaining the pants off audiences. The creak, however, cannot be denied.
Brian Orndorf - OhmyNews.com
A good movie that has the misfortune of having some pretty big shoes to fill. In that respect, it's the cinematic version of Teddy Kennedy.
Jon Popick - Planet Sick-Boy
Is this Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 3 or Aaron Spelling's?
Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine
An exhilarating balance of action and romance, this Spidey is intricately detailed, weaving the subplots together into a nicely balanced whole.
Harvey S. Karten - Compuserve
Still smart, still exciting and still action-packed. It's just a shame to note that, after promising greatness, all Spider-Man 3 delivers is satisfaction.
Chris Hewitt (UK) - Empire Magazine
There's probably even a kitchen sink in here somewhere if you look closely enough
Scott Nash - Three Movie Buffs
I think we've begun to expect so much from the Spider-Man movies that when one isn't quite as good as the other it stands out like a wart on an ear lobe.
Clint Morris - Film Threat
This is a movie that's content to be pretty good within its genre, with the main distinction of being much bigger than any of its competition.
Glenn Kenny - Premiere Magazine
The few cops seen are standing around watching like they are enjoying the show. Is Spiderman the only crime fighter in New York now? Should this film have been a little better thought out?
Danny Minton - Beaumont Journal
Gone is the bright tempo and unbridled enthusiasm of the first two movies that seemed to offer limitless possibilities for the genre.
Cole Smithey - ColeSmithey.com
The visual effects are impressive and there are occasional bursts of humour plus a dash of romance. With Sam Raimi once again at the helm, Spider-Man 3 is in fine form and fans will not be disappointed
Urban Cinefile Critics - Urban Cinefile
Ultimately, what you'll get is a rollicking good time at the movies that falls some way short of achieving the epic greatness to which it (quite rightly) aspires.
Paul Greenwood - Future Movies UK
Spider-Man 3 is nothing if not eclectic, but somehow this ambitious mishmash works. Action-packed, with all the digital fireworks that a $250 million (or more) budget can buy, it's both the most grandiose chapter and the nuttiest.
David Ansen - Newsweek
Once you go black, you DO go back!
Mark Ramsey - MovieJuice!
The characterization suffers from one-dimensionality simply because there are just too many characters... But, at the end of the day, Spider-Man 3 is still an entertaining popcorn flick.
Jeff Otto - ReelzChannel.com
It's that willingness to give you more than you expect -- to refuse to settle in and just coast -- that's made the Spider-Man series the great fun it is.
Stephen Whitty - Newark Star-Ledger
A disappointment. Spidey keeps his mask off and weeps. Everyone cries. I hated the silly monolith sad sack Sandman. Did Dunst's contract stipulate she sing two songs?
Victoria Alexander - Movie Reviews in Croatian
It was great to see a much needed aggressive Spider-Man to contrast the normal nice boy character of Peter Parker that was getting old.
Vince Koehler - Entertainment Spectrum
A solid Summer movie with some glorious set pieces, but with so many subplots in play it struggles to form a cohesive whole
Garth Franklin - Dark Horizons
Facing a tough challenge as a follow-up to the superlative Spidey 2, new segment is bigger (in budget), longer (139 minutes), awesome (in CGI), and darker (black is dominant color), featuring more villains than in the first two installments.
Emanuel Levy - EmanuelLevy.Com
It's easily the best of the trilogy and, for my money, one of the most enjoyable films of the decade.
Charlotte O'Sullivan - This is London
What truly is most amazing about Spider-Man 3 (no pun intended) is that all objections are answered and all developments are resolved, even if at times it feels like they will never converge.
Todd Gilchrist - IGN Movies
Proof that it pays keeping on the same creative team that made previous installments in your franchise a success.
James O'Ehley - Sci-Fi Movie Page


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Guy Demel expects to be back at the peak of his powers sooner rather than later, after stepping up his recovery from the nasty concussion he suffered at Cardiff City.
The powerful full-back played an hour in Thursday's friendly at home to Tottenham Hotspur and happily reported feeling better for the outing.
Demel now plans to put in the hard yards over the coming days, as he looks forward to a prospective Barclays Premier League return at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night.
He told whufc.com: "It's good to be on the pitch now, I'm happy to feel that I'm getting back to normal. I still have a couple of days of hard work to be sure that I'll be ready for the next game.
"I'm working hard with the physios and with fitness coaches and I'm sure the extra couple of days before Chelsea will be useful. I'll be alright.
"I'm obviously a little bit tired because the shock lowered my energy levels as well, as if I've been out for a month or something.
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"Of course there will be some opponents that might be slightly easier, so to speak, but we just have to get the points. It doesn't matter where we get them, we just need points, points, points. It's not like [it's extra special] because we beat Chelsea, no, I just want points!"While the Hammers will, no doubt, have to defend well at Stamford Bridge, Demel insists it will take a collective effort to keep the Blues at bay. But the the right-back is, of course, pleased to see defensive numbers swell, with James Collins and James Tomkins both back in the reckoning, and Winston Reid not too far behind either. "When you talk about defending, you defend with ten players on the pitch plus the goalkeeper, not only the defenders," he continued. "As a team we have to perform well. If you want the defence to be solid we have to play well and the defence can then make the difference. "We're now going to have some players back on board, but it's really hard when you come back from injury for a long time to go straight back into that type of environment. Winston Reid will be really important, James Collins is getting better and Tomkins is back, I hope Joey will be back soon too."


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2013 Golden Globes reactions: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio and more
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Jessica Lange, 'American Horror Story'
"It is an honor to be nominated for 'American Horror Story: Asylum.' Ryan Murphy has again created a challenging character for me to play and it is a privilege to work with such a talented group of actors on this one-of-a kind show. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this nomination."
- Jessica Lange, "American Horror Story"
Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
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