Tagged X-Men

1. Cannes kicks off with a Woody Allen rape joke The world’s classiest film festival is now underway. Just about anyone you’ve ever heard of is currently lapping up the sun on the French Riviera. The...

1. Cannes Festival names its jury The 2016 Cannes Film Festival now has itself a jury - nine good film-type people and true - ahead of the start of proceedings on May 11. Joining George Miller, who’ll be...

Though it’s been 14 years since About a Boy, for some of us Nicholas Hoult will forever be sweet and strange Marcus Brewer. Though not quite Hoult’s first film role (he was a supporting actor in 1996’s...

The last time we saw Deadpool, he had his mouth sewn up and his head cut off in the much maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seven years later, Ryan Reynolds is the suited-up, gun-happy Merc with a Mouth once...

That Deadpool is the x-rated X-Men movie is its greatest draw and biggest flaw. Lured to the screen by humour and violence at unseen levels, viewers find the same old story but with new spandexed players and...

We all know Jennifer Lawrence as the Girl on Fire, or Katniss Everdeen, from the recently wrapped Hunger Games series. Throughout the saga - well, until Mockingjay Part 2 -  Lawrence’s acting was every bit...

We know James McAvoy best for X-Men and Atonement, but he’s so much more than Professor X.  His upcoming role as the eponymous Victor Frankenstein means it’s as good a time as any to focus on the...

All statistics correct at time of writing. We were all a little worried for Josh Trank's embattled vision for Reed Richards, Ben Grimm and the Storm siblings, but nothing prepared us for this: already,...

Why is X-Men Origins: Wolverine considered the bastard child of the blockbusting X-Men? Although it is far from the best X-Men film available, there is nothing to suggest that Origins needs relegating from...

He weighs in at 83kg, 185cm tall and he’s the male acting equivalent of Anne Hathaway. A figure that’s often derided by critics for his apparent absence of talent, Channing Tatum is a by-word for “tries...

The future of the superhero film suddenly looks a whole lot shakier. This article was going to begin with all the exciting ways the genre is branching out with more niche characters and directors like James...

Last week I wrote an article explaining why the modern superhero film succeeded, and now here I am telling you the exact opposite. A bit hypocritical, right? But as much as the genre has wowed audiences and...

We live in a golden age for the superhero film – a period that will go down in cinematic history for its unprecedented levels of productivity, creativity and popular acclaim. The comic books where these...

Empire. X-Men. 25 covers. 1 issue. It was more worrying than exciting. How on earth would Singer combine two franchises into one coherent film? Answer: very, very well. The cast serve the story, not their...