Tag: Hugh Jackman

Maturation Hugh Jackman’s final gig as Wolverine offers a violent, sure-handed saga of a late-life superhero. No capes, no color, and all of the action spills blood. It’s mature, …

Grand Finale In a turn for the superhero genre, the writers of Logan craft a story not about a villain finding a vulnerability to use against the hero, but …

Chapped The movie where a South African rap/rave group plays themselves, wears their own merchandise, and kidnap a robot. There’s more: Short Circuit lifted in full, elements of RoboCop, …

Input, input, input. Humans break what they create. It is instinct to corrupt and manipulate, so says Chappie. Of course, Chappie says a lot of things. This is the …

Days of Future Past is the X-Men's cinematic kingpin.

Marvel spins a yarn which can cover up their minimal X-Men blights and reset for the betterment of the series.

Key to thematic success is an avoidance of exploitation.

Wolverine turns second tier, displaced as he inadvertently becomes tied up in a criminally vintage “damsel in distress” narrative.

Creativity is on display, and the film is quite beautiful, but it smacks of tired scripting that follows a direct path into the arms of cliches.

Kate & Leopold is harmless fluff if nothing else, created to pander to an audience who finds the idea of Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman hooking up irresistible.

Hollywood made a movie about Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, and it's good. Really good. The Mayans were right; we're all screwed.

One of the few somber moments in X-Men Origins: Wolverine comes as Hugh Jackman (playing the title character) sits in a broken down barn speaking to an older couple …