The prospect of Patrick Stewart playing a badguy kind of makes you balk when you first hear it. Stewpat? Professor X? CAPTAIN PICARD? A baddie? Nope, can’t see it. But if reviews of Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room are to be believed, Stewart is frighteningly good in the role of the patriarch of a clan of white-supremacist hillbillies. …
X-Men: Days of Future Past Written by Simon Kinberg Directed by Bryan Singer USA, 2014 It may be a slightly ominous sign that the best scene in X-Men: Days of Future Past features a totally new character to the infinite universe of mutants, who then all but vanishes from the rest of the film. Still, …
X-Men: Days of Future Past Written by Simon Kinberg Directed by Bryan Singer USA, 2014 The key virtue of the X-Men films has been their mutant-like ability to seamlessly blend with other genres. The Wolverine worked as samurai cinema. First Class played well as a Cold War-era Bond thriller. Since the comic’s inception, X-Men has been the “…in bed” fortune …