X2: X Men United Comic book movies that feature its superheroes as being part of a unified “team” concept (such as The Avengers) offer its filmmakers ample opportunities to cast big names and then set them loose together in the same room which is surely a prospect that many crave to see. But while the […]
X Files: I Want To Believe Finally, after nearly five years since the iconic 90s sci-fi show ended, creator Chris Carter has managed to get his stars back for this new adventure of his pop culture phenoms Mulder and Scully (though box office returns indicated that it may have been too little too late). Certainly […]
X-Men The genetic evolution of the modern comic book movie from highlighting singular heroes in their quest for justice (Superman, Batman, the underrated The Crow) to the onslaught of whole entire ensemble films featuring teams of heroes working together (Avengers, Justice League, Suicide Squad) was a gradual yet necessary process that was truly kickstarted by […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Well, it’s nice to know that in his fourth outing as the character, Hugh Jackman has finally settled comfortably into the role that made him a worldwide star: Gone is most of the tentativeness, the ridiculous posing, and the fake action hero postering that hampered his performances in the first three X […]
X-Men: First Class It’s almost ironic that the best film in the X-Men Franchise would also be the fifth in the series, moreso because it serves as a prequel that would have been most appropriate as the first entry instead, if not for the producers deciding to go for a modern day story and bringing […]
X Ray For all of the slick, well done, technical prowess shown in horror movies from recent years, one thing that they seem to have lost is the ability to be CREEPY, the tendency to make the viewer uncomfortable just by what they’re watching even as it still delivers the horror movie goods, replaced instead […]
You Only Live Twice For the fifth outing for Sean Connery as James Bond 007, the producers decided to stop dicking the fans around with pseudo-villains and bring out the big gun: Ernst Stavro Blofeld finally takes center stage as the primary bad guy, and with the legendary Donald Pleasence in the role, it’s not […]
Young Frankenstein A film that pays as much tribute as it does spoofs the genre it is taking on, Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy classic is certainly faithful to the Universal horror classics of the 1930s and in particular, James Whale’s Frankenstein films that starred Boris Karloff. Brooks even goes so far as to utilize the […]
Young Guns Historians have long debated the true nature of the legendary Western figure that was Billy The Kid, about whether he was a Robin Hood-type outlaw that fought for what he thought was right, or whether he was a psychotic killer that used the injustices of his time to satisfy and fulfill his own […]