Spider-Noir review: Nicolas Cage plays an ageing Spider-Man. When Nicolas Cage first voiced Spider-Noir in Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 2018 Oscar-winning animated Marvel movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, he wouldn’t have known that he’d be playing the same character in a full-blown live-action world, eight years later. It’s developed by Oren Uziel, best known for his collaboration as a screenwriter with Lord and Miller on 22 Jump Street (2014). Right at the outset, Cage’s voiceover makes it clear that the spin-off series on Spider-Noir is not a stepping stone in the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but a world unto its own: “Years ago, somebody asked me which universe I belong to. This is the only one I know.” Since New York City of the 1930s is the only dimension he knows, Cage’s ageing and jaded Ben Reilly doesn’t go about trying to erase the whole world’s collective memory to conceal his identity as Spider-Man.…