As I wrote in last month’s Awesome Cheese, comic book films expanded in major ways in the last decade. However, it wasn’t just The Losers that missed a step sometimes; even established franchises go down the wrong path. Such is the case for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Initially envisioned as t...
Read MoreSure to get lost in the run-up to Avengers: Endgame is the latest – and last, we can safely assume – entry in Fox’s pre-Disney X-Men franchise, Dark Phoenix (as opposed to X-Men: Dark Phoenix). It’s kind of the little movie that could, trying to put its best foot forward against a culminatio...
Read MoreX-Men: Dark Phoenix has had a troubled production, including re-shoots that pushed the film from its November release to February and some behind the scenes issues. I can’t say I was particularly excited for this film after all I’ve heard, and when they announced that we’d be getti...
Read MorePrepare for another battle of wits between everyone’s favorite mutant frenemies as Instagram account Mariopower has posted pictures from the set of X-Men: Dark Phoenix. The photos were taken in Montreal during reshoots for the new – and, one assumes, final – installment in Fox’s X-Men franch...
Read More“Someone will come along.” “Someone has come along.” After a stellar marketing campaign and the promise of seeing the final appearance of a now legendary actor/character pairing, Logan is finally out in theaters. I saw it opening night (and thank god I did, or I’d have had lots of surprise...
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