Marvel’s “The Dark Phoenix Saga” was a comic book story arc that took four years to tell and ran across about forty issues — we’re talking major epic here — so when 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand used the Dark Phoenix as a “B” plot to Magneto’s fight against the mutant “cure,” fans were less…
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Alien: Covenant (2017) – Review
I had some serious issues with Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus, as it seemed to be a film that just randomly threw in mythology and then never bothered to explain anything – maybe Scott had hopes that we would all be patient enough to wait for the sequel to the prequel – but then he…
Assassin’s Creed (2016) – Review
When one goes to see a movie based on a video game a certain level of understanding should be brought to the table and that bit of understanding would be that there is a very good chance the movie is going to suck.
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) – Review
In this movie the mutant speedster Quicksilver saves a bunch of Charles Xavier’s gifted youngsters when the X-Mansion blows up. Sadly that is about the only true heroic moment in this film.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – Review
Before the year 2000 superhero films didn’t get a lot of respect, in the 70s we had Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie and in the 80s Tim Burton’s Batman, but aside from those rare success stories the superhero genre never really took off. Then came Bryan Singer, his X-Men movie not only received mostly…