12:01. The crowd of teenagers and early 20-year-olds don’t grow silent even though the music is starting. Instantly there is the peculiar smokey smell that I can’t pin down. Must be a midnight movie, all right. The things I do to get timely movie reviews for the Monitor Duty audience.

I’d taken a break from designing a Flash movie to promote my entry in that comic book contest (for which I need every vote I can get, just in case you’d not heard) and caught the midnight showing of Spider-Man 2. Now read my review.