Dark Phoenix (2019)
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
Simon Kinberg takes over the directorial duties this time out, covering ground he’s covered before in his (and Zak Penn’s) screenplay to X-Men: The Last Stand, which took from one of the most popular...
2010s / Action / Fantasy / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 23, 2016 · Last modified July 10, 2018
For a film which gives a sideways swipe to the much maligned X-Men: The Last Stand by the comment within the film, after some of the characters are seen walking out a screening of Return of the...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published May 15, 2015 · Last modified May 4, 2019
Film critics appear to be going mad for Mad Max: Fury Road in a way I don’t quite understand, even if I feel that it does deliver the goods, action-wise, with sufficiency. It’s wacked-out fun, and...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published May 24, 2014 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Days of Future Past starts off in the near future, where mutants are being hunted to near extinction by super-sophisticated robots known as Sentinels. Not only mutants but homo sapiens carrying the mutant genes as...
2010s / Action / Science Fiction / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published June 7, 2011 · Last modified June 12, 2019
Mostly set in the pre-Bay of Pigs Cold War era (early 1960s), X-Men: First Class governs the origin of the X-Men, to be led by Professor Charles Xavier (McAvoy), and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants,...
It’s Nicolas Cage doing what he does best, play a self-defeating loser, in The Weather Man, a bigger budget Hollywood release that feels like a small, quirky independent comedy. It’s a comedy that just barely...
About a Boy is directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, the duo that also directed the juvenile comedy American Pie and the sophomoric Chris Rock film, Down to Earth. Just like the main character of their third film,...
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