Tag: James McAvoy

Phoenix Falling Partway through the arduous Dark Phoenix, a TV newscast mentions the possibility for mutant internment camps, suggesting the X-Men’s future unless they stop the conflicted Jean Gray. …

Broken Glass Glass considers that comic books cannot exist. Sarah Paulson’s character refuses to acknowledge their existence; they need to be fantasy, a disease, as represented by three interconnected …

Shattered As a pair, Unbreakable and Split delivered a sharp, “life imitates art” conceit. Comic books represent life – social issues, injustice, moral right – and M. Night Shyamalan’s …

Blondie Atomic Blonde’s grandest sequence is a near 10-minute, seamlessly edited brawl. With a self-contained narrative – Charlize Theron desperate to save the life of a key MI6 contact …

When the world-ending villain is the wrong one Choking on its fan service and battling to preserve continuity with far too many films in this series, Fox’s X-Men heads …

A beautiful, emotionally haunting film about loss and love, starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy How The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them came about is an interesting tale in …

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.

In bulk, Punch plants sub characters in their narrative slots, unmoving as sedentary players.

You can argue about whether or not the whole thing is necessary; does anyone really need to know this origin tale? Not necessarily, but the quality deems otherwise.

It's a smart, somewhat spaced film that history buffs will undoubtedly absorb despite some reservations.

Garden gnomes? Alive? And at war? So, it's a half-baked Pixar idea that ended up tossed to the side and picked up by someone else? Gotcha.