For all the talk of evolution that has occurred in the X-Men movie franchise over the 16 year it has been around, it’s rather frustrating that the latest cinematic mutant escapade from director Bryan Singer is not so much the evolutionary equivalent of mankind developing fantastic powers, but rather suddenly forgetting they have opposable thumbs. Coming on the heels of the fresh and …

It'll probably never happen, but if Fantastic Four's makers could, they'd do a sequel that was a little brighter.

  I actually liked last year’s Fantastic Four reboot. Well, I like the first half, which is actually a pretty polished little bit of sci-fi. But – and you knew there was a but coming – it was totally not a Fantastic Four movie. Let me explain: I have no problem in making changes to a property when adapting it for the big screen, but don’t …

The list of crimes against geekdom perpetrated by 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand is well documented and lengthy, but its most heinous offence is arguably its butchering of one of the greatest comic book stories ever told. Released in 1980, writer Chris Claremont and artists Dave Cockrum and John Byrne’s “The Dark Phoenix Saga” is an epic space-heavy tale with …

I’m really enjoying the comic book craze in Hollywood at the moment. I have my fears that they are overdoing it and we will start to get burnt out and inundated with average films, but at the moment, each film and studio is bringing their best into these movies. I’m also enjoying how they are continuing to explore the deeper …

Discussing the right actors to play popular comic book characters is enough to get any comic book geek fired up in opinion. There is always regular debate over who plays the better Superman or Batman or Spider-Man (in my opinion, I’m still waiting for the right one) or even Hulk (it’s Eric Bana – just kidding). One comic book movie …

When it comes to adapting a classic comic book to the screen, if at first you don’t succeed, make a controversial reboot. And if you still don’t succeed, just give up entirely, right? That seems to be what everybody assumed would happen after Fox’s latest attempt at adapting Fantastic Four turned out to be one of the worst reviewed comic …

I think it’s fairly well established at this point that the new Fantastic Four flick is a bit of a mess. But out of all the offenses that director/co-writer Josh Trank and producer/co-writer Simon Kinberg commit during its rushed running time, the one I find the most criminal is just how they wasted such an amazing cast and the mind …