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Super Movie Monday – X-Men: The Last Stand, Pt. 2

Continuing our look back at X-Men: The Last Stand, the third in the series of X-Men films. The film actually didn’t start off too badly. There was decent action, a lot of familiar faces (both from the comics and from … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men: The Last Stand

Last week, we wrapped up our discussion of X2, but I got in a hurry, so I never really gave an overall summation. But basically, X2 did pretty much everything a sequel is supposed to do. It brought back all … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X2, Part 3

Time for the concluding chapter to our look back at X2 (also known as X2: X-Men United). When we left off, the X-Men were in Canada, teamed up with Magneto and Mystique to rescue Professor X and Cyclops from the … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X2, Pt. 2

Continuing our recap of X2, the Marvel mutant sequel directed by Brian Singer. When we left off last week, Professor Charles Exxxavier and Cyclops had been captured by Stryker,  Nightcrawler had been captured by Jean Grey and Storm, and a … Continue reading

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Super Movies – X2: X-Men United

Since Out of the Vault was late, I thought I’d drag this by a day as well, to give people time to read the other thing. Continuing our coverage of the X-Men series of films, we visit the second film … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men, Part 3

Now we’re into the big finish of Brian Singer’s 2000 adaptation of X-Men, although the term “big” may not apply so much. When we left off, Rogue had been kidnapped by Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants, and Professor Ex-Javier had been rendered … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men, Part 2

Continuing this week with the second chapter of our three-part look at Brian Singer’s X-Men from 2000. When we left off, Logan–the ronin-like wandering cage fighter also known as Wolverine–had ended up in Professor Charles Egg-Saviour’s School for Gifted Youngsters … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – X-Men

To start off the new year, let’s start a new series: the X-Men. The Uncanny X-Men were introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963. They had two basic gimmicks to set them apart from other heroes: number one, … Continue reading

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Holiday Movie Monday – Santa Claus (1959)

If you’ll remember before I skipped last week, I had been revisiting lost treasures of my childhood: movies I had been intrigued by the commercials for, but never seen, or movies I had seen part of, but not the whole … Continue reading

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Super Movie Monday – Return of the Vampire

Once again, we continue with the lost treasures of my youth, this time with Columbia’s Return of the Vampire from 1943. I don’t know whether I’m getting nostalgic because I turned 50, or if I just didn’t get enough Halloween … Continue reading

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