SPOILERS BELOW. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. If you thought the X-Men needed a fresh new reboot you’re in luck because X-Men: Apocalypse has been released to the masses. If not, well this is the movie you got. Apocalypse takes place ten years after the events of Days of Future Past and features a new threat,…
The apocalypse is near! The X-Men: Apocalypse anyway. May 27th is coming up faster than you think and yet we’re still waiting for an officially released trailer. Sigh. While you wait impatiently, get excited for the next trick up Singer’s sleeve. Via Instagram, Singer let the world know that he was bringing back an old…
We’re just over a year away from the premiere of X-Men: Apocalypse, due out May 27th 2016, and there’s a lot of news to share. Just as Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender stepped in to reenergize the franchise, a young group will now look to reboot the series. Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner…
It was the best of franchises, it was the worst of franchises. —The Editor I was in the theater to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the ads started, and suddenly there were two trailers featuring Marvel comics characters from two other production companies. Once more, I found myself mourning the fact that Spider-Man (Sony)…
To sum it up in one word: no. But, to get slightly more in-depth into the situation, let’s flesh this out a little. It was recently announced that both Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold were in negotiations to bring another solo Wolverine adventure to the big screen. I enjoyed this summer’s The Wolverine plenty,…
The Wolverine, directed by James Mangold, was, to me, a surprisingly good movie, especially since I stayed after the credits and got a taste of what was to come in the X-Men universe. My hopes have only grown since the release of the new trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will have director…
The ‘90s marked something of a revival for animated television series based on comic book characters, most notably superheroes. The more popular of these series included the like of Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and the X-Men. Growing up, my favorite was X-Men. I was too young when they originally aired so I was unfortunately only able…
Directed by James Mangold Written by Mark Bomback, Scott Frank & Christopher McQuarrie (Uncredited) Starring Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hal Yamanouchi, and Famke Jannsen PG-13, 126 minutes The Wolverine is a fitting title, billed as a return to form for the character after recent lapses in judgment concerning his…
I have always been a fan of the X-Men, that wily band of mutants and the curmudgeons who oppose them; whether they are other mutants or the society that fears them. Social commentary on our own culture runs amok in this premise and has been mined several times in the comics, the animated series, and…
Hugh Jackman has beat Christopher Reeves in the most times an actor has played the same superhero across films. Reeves had played Superman a total of four times across four films. Jackman on the other hand has reprised his role as Wolverine not only three times for the first X-Men trilogy, but in an unaccredited…
