The New Mutants

The New Mutants

This one last spinoff is technically part of the franchise. Maybe if they’d focused on the young mutants in Logan that would have been a nice connection, but these are just random mutant teens. The only time the X-Men are even alluded to is when the kids mention they...
Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix got a lot of negative prerelease buzz, and it was deserved. Wow, what a sad ending (essentially) to such a great series. By sad I mean immensely disappointing, considering how amazing the series often was. It actually starts off pretty strong in 1992,...
Deadpool 2

Deadpool 2

I’ll repeat what I said about the first film: Deadpool 2 is a great R-rated comic superhero movie! We get more of the laughs – this time with a lot of black comedy (especially as it pertains to the gang of misfits who try to be Deadpool’s team). We get an even better...
Logan

Logan

Prior to the making of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the record for most movies in which the same person played a specific superhero was four – Christopher Reeve in the original Superman series. At this point that almost seems like a quant number. Anyone who’s played the...
X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse

Although First Class underperformed at the box office despite its excellence, Days of Future Past was by far the most financially successful X-Men movie and thus Fox gave us this film starring the younger set of actors. Of course it’s strange that nobody’s aged a day...