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X-Men: Apocalypse enjoys $80 million domestic opening weekend as Alice Through the Looking Glass bombs

May 31, 2016 by Gary Collinson

X-Men: Apocalypse debuted in the States this past Friday, with the latest instalment of Fox’s mutant superhero franchise enjoying an $80 million domestic opening over the four-day Memorial Day weekend, with $65.3 million of that coming from the Friday-Sunday period. “We’re very happy with this result as we introduce new characters in the X-Men universe,” […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, US Box Office Tagged With: Alice Through the Looking Glass, Marvel, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse

The 10 Best Comic Book Movie Scenes

May 30, 2016 by Anghus Houvouras

Anghus Houvouras with his 10 best comic book movie scenes… As I watched X-Men: Apocalypse this week, I marveled at a particular thought that was swimming around my cerebellum: Bryan Singer has directed four of the best comic book scenes ever staged. This seems somewhat surprising since the finished films end up being a mish-mash of […]

Filed Under: Anghus Houvouras, Articles and Opinions, Movies Tagged With: American Splendor, Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Blade, DC, DC Extended Universe, Green Lantern, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man 2, The Avengers, The Dark Knight, V for Vendetta, X-Men, X-Men 2, X-Men: Days of Future Past

Movie Review – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

May 28, 2016 by Robert Kojder

X-Men: Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Lana Condor, Evan Peters, Josh Helman, Lucas Till, and Hugh Jackman Synopsis: With the emergence of the world’s first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men […]

Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Bryan Singer, Evan Peters, Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Helman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lana Condor, Lucas Till, Marvel, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse

The Week in Spandex – X-Men: Apocalypse box office, Wolverine 3 villains, Chris Evans keen on Spider-Man cameo, Joss Whedon open to female Avengers movie, Wesley Snipes on Blade return, Suicide Squad promo artwork, Stephen Amell wants Arrow to go back-to-basics and more

May 28, 2016 by Gary Collinson

In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Force, Wolverine 3, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Animated Spider-Man, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Blade, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman, The Flash, Arrow, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and more… Having opened in […]

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Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Gary Collinson, Movies, News, Television, The Week in Spandex Tagged With: Animated Spider-Man, Arrow, Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Black Panther, Blade, Captain America: Civil War, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, DC, DC Extended Universe, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Jessica Jones, Lucifer, Luke Cage, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Avengers, The Flash, Thor: Ragnarok, Wolverine 3, X-Force, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: The Animated Series

Bryan Singer rules out a director’s cut of X-Men: Apocalypse, talks deleted scenes

May 27, 2016 by Gary Collinson

With X-Men: Apocalypse opening in the States today, director Bryan Singer has been chatting to Fandango about the movie, during which he confirmed that unlike X-Men: Days of Future Past, there will be not additional director’s cut or extended version of his latest foray into the world of the X-Men. “There will be nothing like […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Bryan Singer, Marvel, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse

Olivia Munn wants Psylocke to join Deadpool in X-Force movie

May 27, 2016 by Gary Collinson

Promoting the release of X-Men: Apocalypse in an interview with USA Today, actress Olivia Munn has expressed her hope that she’ll get to reprise the role of Psylocke alongside Ryan Reynolds’ Merc with a Mouth in 20th Century Fox’s planned X-Men spinoff X-Force. “That would be a really cool thing to do,” said Munn. “What [Reynolds] […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Marvel, Olivia Munn, X-Force, X-Men

How Superhero Movies Have Done So Far in 2016

May 26, 2016 by admin

It became apparent very early on that 2016 was going to be the year of superhero movies. While previous years have seen quite a number of superhero movies as well, the 6 big titles scheduled to hit the screen this year pretty much eclipsed anything else up till now. At this stage four of those […]

Filed Under: Movies, Special Features Tagged With: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, DC, DC Extended Universe, Deadpool, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse

Movie Review – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

May 25, 2016 by Amie Cranswick

X-Men: Apocalypse, 2016. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Lana Condor and Evan Peters. SYNOPSIS: 10 years after the events of the last movie, the X-Men reunite to battle Apocalypse, the world’s […]

Filed Under: Eric Bay-Andersen, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Bryan Singer, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lana Condor, Marvel, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, X-Men, X-Men: Apocalypse

Rumour: Wolverine 3 villains reportedly revealed

May 25, 2016 by Gary Collinson

With filming on Wolverine 3 getting underway, Nerdist has posted a report which claims to reveal details of the villains that Hugh Jackman’s Logan will be squaring off against in his X-Men swansong. According to the report, Boyd Holbrook’s as-yet-unrevealed villain will be an original character, described as the “intense head of security for a […]

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Marvel, Wolverine, Wolverine 3, X-Men

X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!

May 24, 2016 by Tony Black

Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tony Black Tagged With: Alan Cumming, Alexandra Shipp, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Bryan Singer, Chris Claremont, Danny Huston, Deadpool, Ellen Page, Famke Janssen, Frank Miller, Gavin Hood, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, James Mangold, James Marsden, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Kelsey Grammer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Liev Schreiber, Lucas Till, Matthew Vaughn, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Williams, Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Rebecca Romijn, Rose Byrne, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Ashmore, Simon Kinberg, Sophie Turner, Superman Returns, Taylor Kitsch, Terminator, The Wolverine, The Wolverine 3, Tye Sheridan, Tyler Mane, X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Apocalypse, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: The Last Stand, X2: X-Men United

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