05 September
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IT CHAPTER TWO Director: Andy MuschiettiStarring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, James Ransone It’s been twenty-seven years since the members of the Losers Club battled Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård) They’re now adults and have put their past traumas behind them. They’ve suppressed those memories until Mike (Mustafa) gives them an unwanted call. History is repeating itself in Derry as a new crop of killings have occurred. As kids they made an oath to return to Derry if Pennywise started his reign of terror all over again. When they arrive backRead More →

06 June
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DARK PHOENIX Writer/Director: Simon KinbergStarring: Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jessica Chastain, Alexandra Shipp, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-Phee Jean Grey is a favorite among X-Men fans. She’s had quite the journey as we’ve seen in the comics and film series. Dark Phoenix acts as part origin story as it charts evolution as mutant into the fully fledged Dark Phoenix. Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner returns to the role of Jean Grey after appearing in X-Men: Apocalypse. We learn as a young girl she accidentally caused the death of her parents in a car accident. Her powers of telepathy and telekinesisRead More →

09 May
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IT: CHAPTER TWO Director: Andy MuschiettiStarring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, James Ransone The new adaptation of It was a massive success at the box office breaking opening records for the horror genre. Unlike many horror sequels, IT: Chapter Two is not a cash grab. If you read the Stephen King opus or have seen the original Tim Curry version, you may remember that IT is told through the perspective of the Losers Club as children (as we saw in Part 1) and now, twenty-seven years later, as adults. The Losers Club reunitesRead More →

18 January
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GLASS Director: M. Night ShyamalanStarring: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark M. Night Shyamalan fans were teased when they saw Bruce Willis’ Unbreakable character, David Dunn, pop up at the end of his last movie Split. It has been nineteen years since Unbreakable, which pitted Willis against Samuel L. Jackson’s comic book obsessed character Elijah Price aka “Mr. Glass”. In Split, James McAvoy played Kevin Wendell Crumb who suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Shyamalan unites all three characters now in Glass. David is now working for his own home security system with his son and uses hisRead More →

27 July
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ATOMIC BLONDE Director: David Leitch Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Sofia Boutella, Bill Skarsgård, Sam Hargrave It seems like Charlize Theron is the go-to actress for any high intensity action flick. She’s one of the names people like to throw out in the Twitterverse for the ideal first female James Bond thanks to her roles in films like Mad Max Fury Road, The Fate of the Furious, and now Atomic Blonde. It’s November 1989 in Berlin. The Cold War is in full swing and the Berlin Wall still separates the city. Theron stars in the title role as MI-6 agent LorraineRead More →

12 December
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X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Director: Bryan Singer Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tye Sheridan, Rose Byrne, Evan Peters In just a few days, we will be treated with Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Before that movie starts, audiences will get a glimpse at the first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. This is the final film in the new trilogy that started with X-Men: First Class. The mutants we’ve come to know including: James McAvoy’s Professor X, Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique, and Michael Fassbender as Magneto are all back as well as some new mutants including Olivia Munn as Psyloche,Read More →

27 May
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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Director: Bryan Singer Starring: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore The fans rejoiced when it was announced that Bryan Singer signed on to direct the latest outing in this series. He got the series going with X-Men and then upped the ante with the stellar X2 in 2003. Unfortunately he departed the series and we were left with Brett Ratner directing X-Men: The Last Stand, which still leaves a sour note in moviegoers’ memories. Since the original trilogy, we have had two terrible stand-aloneRead More →

29 October
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X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PASTDirector: Bryan SingerStarring: Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page, Peter Dinklage, Evan Peters Of all of the Stan Lee/Marvel creations, the X-Men rank as my #1 favorite. My inner geekdom dates back to my childhood watching the cartoons, deciding which super power I would want, and which X-Men was my favorite. Director Bryan Singer is returning to the X-Menfranchise after departing after X2 in 2003. I have been geeking out over this movie ever since it was announced that the casts from both the original trilogy and X-Men: First Class would beRead More →

05 June
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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Director: Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) Starring: James McAvoy (Atonement), Michael Fassbender (Jane Eyre), Kevin Bacon (Footloose), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man) During World War II, Erik Lensherr (Fassbender) is forced to be separated from his mother outside the gates of a concentration camp. As he reaches for her one last time, a rage fueled Erik opens the gates without even touching the gate. His power to move and control metal is witnessed by Sebastian Shaw (Bacon), a sadistic scientist. Erik vows to use his powers to get revenge on Shaw after witnessing him murder his mother. Time has passed,Read More →