James McAvoy
Trailer Trashin’: Marvel’s Mutants are Attacked in X-Men: Days of Future Past
Happy April, dear readers! The snow is almost entirely gone, the weather is warming up, and we can go outside without putting on coats. Best of all, this Friday finally sees the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and by all accounts it’s awesome. And fittingly, this week’s installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines another of this year’s movies based on Marvel Co...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: Eras Collide in X-Men Days of Future Past
This Friday, we at last get to see the next part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Thor: The Dark World finally hits theaters stateside. And fittingly, this week’s new installment of Trailer Trashin’ examines another upcoming Marvel Comics movie, next summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Premise: The X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of their species across two diff...[Read More]
Movie Review: X-Men: First Class
The X-Men franchise which, with the inclusion of X-Men: First Class, now boasts five films, started off well with Bryan Singer’s series-launching entries X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). Then faltered, at least creatively as the box office didn’t seem to suffer, with the third film in the series, X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), and the franchise’s first spin-off, X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). Now, the...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Conspirator
This weekend marks a hardly known Federal holiday that commemorates the anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. As a lover of history and of this particular President, I was anticipating the telling of a little known story that took place after the assassination of the President. The Conspirator is both an historic telling of Mary Surratt, the owner of ...[Read More]