Happy Sunday, folks, hope you've had a pleasant weekend! I've been wanting to do this post for quite a while as I haven't got a chance to actually review this movie for myself (but Paula G did here). But as I said in my weekend roundup last week, it's my top favorite movie of the …
Tag: Matthew Vaughn X-Men: First Class
Guest Post – ‘X-Men: First Class’ Review
[WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS] Despite my high expectations and fear of being disappointed, I really liked X-Men: First Class. Director Matthew Vaughn did serve up the Bond movie/political thriller cocktail that he promised, and, contrary to his own statement, there is no sappy love song to gum up the works [rtm's note: see comment in this …
Counting down to X-Men: First Class – 5 reasons I’m seeing this on opening night
In about 72 hours, the wait will finally be over! As you know I've been excited to see this movie for some time now. I love the X-Men franchise, I even enjoyed the third one to an extent, despite all the flaws and Brett Ratner's direction. I just re-watched the trailer of the first one …
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Guest Post: Musings on Darren Aronofsky’s departure from The Wolverine… and who should replace him
So late last week, Fox announced that Darren Aronofsky won't be directing the new Wolverine film. As a fan of Wolverine and the X-Men franchise, this was a huge blow to me. Even though I've never read any of the comic books, I was a huge fan of the cartoon show that aired in the 90s. I also …