The Wrestler The opening montage of wrestling news articles certainly took me back to the days of the 80s when “mark” magazines like PWI ruled the day in coverage, as Aronofsky tells this story of a guy who could have been any number of different stars of the era, now fallen from grace. There is […]
Wrong Turn With its unappealing characters, a script that could have been written by one of its inbred villains, and total lack of originality in its attempt to mine the formula of classics like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, and Deliverance (which is directly mentioned in the dialogue), among others, this 2003 horror […]
X-3: The Last Stand While watching this entry, knowing the vitriol it had received, the one question that kept going thru my mind was, quite frankly, where’s the problem? This film is certainly a notch above the grossly overrated X2, with Bryan Singer and his political allegories eliminated from the big picture in place of […]
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 […]
