Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 48% (Critics) / 74% (Audience)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, Bryan Singer
Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar Isaac
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92% (Critics) / 95% (Audience)
Directed By: Bryan Singer
Written By: Simon Kinberg, Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Hugh Jackman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. – (Source)
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 67% (Critics) / 81% (Audience)
Directed By: James Mangold
Written By: Mark Bomback and Scott Frank
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Svetlana Khodchenkova and Famke Janssen
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Synopsis:Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in this sequel to the member of the X-Men’s first solo outing. Mark Bomback and The Usual Suspects’ Christopher McQuarrie penned the script, which takes its inspiration from the Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Marvel miniseries from the 1980s dealing with the character’s adventures in Japan as he fights ninjas in the ceremonial garb of the samurai. Knight and Day’s James Mangold directs. (Source)
There are very few things that comic book fans can agree on when discussing movie adaptations of their favorite books: THE DARK KNIGHT was dang near perfect, DAREDEVIL was a bit of a train wreck and Halle Berry as Storm in the X-MEN movies was just awful. So upon seeing the photo of Berry in full Storm costuming, that returning X-MEN director Bryan Singer tweeted just fills me with dread. With the changes that were made to the established cinematic continuity by the last X-MEN movie my hopes were up that the opportunity would be taken to rectify the dismal casting decision of hiring Berry to play Storm but alas it was not to be. That won’t stop me, however, from doing my own wishful casting of actresses that would be much better in the role than Halle Berry though.
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Patton Oswalt‘s appearance on this past Thursday’s PARKS & RECREATION featured oswalt doing a fully improvised fillibuster of the Pawnee City Council using his fan-fiction of what the upcoming Disney version of STAR WARS should be like in a screed of geekily epic proportions. I have to ding him for calling the X-men’s plane a Quinjet though.
But he was right about one thing…when you are looking for A-list super heroes the first name on the list should be Moon Knight.
This week’s gender bending bit of cosplay flips the gender script a bit by giving us a male cosplayer as a female character.
This time it is a pretty nifty Storm costume.
UNCANNY AVENGERS #1
GRADE: B
STORY BY: Rick Remender
ART BY: John Cassaday
COVER BY: John Cassaday
PUBLISHER: Marvel
SYNOPSIS:
Rising out of the ashes of the (overlong and really bad) Avengers vs X-men miniseries event comes Uncanny Avengers! Captain America has decided that he has not done enough for the mutant community over the years and sets out to rectify that by forming a combo platter Avengers/X-Men team.
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WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #16
GRADE: D
STORY BY: Jason Aaron
ART BY: Chris Bachalo
COVER BY: Chris Bachalo
PUBLISHER: Marvel
SYNOPSIS:
The story no one was waiting for…the origin of Kade Kilgore!
