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Five new movies release today. Four of those five, unusually, have female leads. The fifth, however, will be the hands-down box office winner of the weekend. X-Men: Days of Future Past: Back in 2000, Bryan Singer’s X-Men ushered in the new Golden Age of superhero films. Fourteen years later, Singer brings us arguably the most ambitious comic book adaptation ever …

I’m usually not one to nitpick, but for director Bryan Singer’s massive mutant mega-sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past, I’m going to have seriously pick the hell out of those nits. And this, believe it or not, is a good thing. Why? Because if it wasn’t for me getting microscopic in my criticisms, I would probably end up spending the next 1000 …

Just three new releases hit South African cinemas today, and they’re all of the escapist sort… Godzilla: Screening in 2D, 3D, and 3D IMAX is this American reboot of the Godzilla film franchise. The King of Monsters pops up to deal with the life-threatening results of our scientific meddling. The pesky humans trying to avoid carnage, meanwhile, include Aaron Taylor-Johnson, …

Step aside Xavier, we have no time for your holier than thou ‘save the mutants’ PC babble here, not in Jon S. Baird’s adaptation of Filth staring the awesome James McAvoy. In what can best be described as a Glasgow kiss to the groin, Filth explores a character so morally destitute that you’ll be scrubbing yourself with holy-water come the end. …

The posters may not have been up to snuff when 20th Century Fox first began to show signs of the mutant gene for mass marketing, but the later versions have certainly evolved to be better than the usua; assortment of teal on orange assortments. X-Men: Days of Future Past is out soon, and that means that its time for a …

Unlike the most recent superhero movie, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past’s promo campaign had taken the novel approach of only showing you the entire movie in the actual movie. Yes, there have been several trailers and clips, but they’ve ranged from the intriguing to the plain awesome rather than the spoilery. That all changed …

If there’s one thing that Marvel Studios proved to everybody else, is that you have to have a plan. They have plans until 2028 for their universe, Sony has a massive Spider-y plan involving sequels and villains, and Warner Bros\DC… Well, they kind a have a plan now, which is a lot better than their old “plan” of just randomly …