Tag: Marvel

Super-hero movies have come a long way in the last decade. For proof, you need only compare 2002’s Spider-Man with its notional remake, The…

Much will be made of the challenges involved in uniting six super-heroes from five different movies, but it strikes me most of the heavy…

I don’t envy the makers of Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, the sequel to a critical flop based on a comic book that’s been…

To this day, my face makes a slight frown whenever I watch the opening montage in X-Men (2000), which credits Stan Lee for creating…

In the wake of such grim comic book adaptations as Sin City (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008), it’d be easy to dismiss Iron…

If it seemed like X-Men (2000) consisted mostly of build-up, its sequel is all payoff. The awkward exposition that comes with such a complex…

Adapting X-Men into film must have seemed like a daunting task. Most super-hero movies consist of an origin story mashed, sometimes awkwardly, with an…

X-Men: The Last Stand is like a teenager from MTV’s Laguna Beach. It’s pretty but too shallow to be involving; it talks too much,…

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