Film thoughts – X Men: Dark Phoenix

X Men, and film goers in general, might have been forgiven for being slightly confused about what kind of film they were expecting to see given that during production the film was touted as being “not superhero movie”, “a drama”, “a Logan inspired character piece”, “inspired by Thor Ragnarok”, “the The Dark Knight of the…

Film thoughts – X Men: Apocalypse

When your film is the third in a trilogy, and you have one of your main characters speak a line about how the third film in a trilogy is always the worst, especially when you happen to be part of a film series of which the previous trilogy ended with a clunker for a third…