Tag Archives: James McAvoy

SYNOPSIS: Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back. REVIEW: The 2017 adaptation of It: Chapter One was something of a landmark movie for the horror genre. Based on Stephen King’s 1986 behemoth of a novel, and making the wise decision …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods. The X-Men join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future by sending Wolverine to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities REVIEW: 19 years in the making, seems like a unexpected time span that many noted directors shouldn’t have to wait (in order to fulfill a trilogy). In the case of renowned director M. Night Shyamalan, it …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: X-Men member Jean Grey turns on her own when hit with a cosmic force during a space mission and her former REVIEW: Warning: Minor Spoilers ahead The 12th installment of the X-Men franchise starts with a car crash. A young mutant named Jean Grey is sent to Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters after she caused that …

SYNOPSIS: After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 distinct personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away and staying alive from the others. REVIEW: Director: M Night Shyamalan Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Betty Buckley It’s pretty hard to overstate how hot M. Night Shyamalan was …

SYNOPSIS: Told from Igor’s perspective, we see the troubled young assistant’s dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man – and the legend – we know today. REVIEW: Victor Frankenstein has arrived!  Another year, another adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein currently playing to …

SYNOPSIS: An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting. REVIEW: Another hypnotically engaging film by the maestro himself, Danny Boyle. “Trance“, I found to be of a slightly different slice than Boyle’s rather eclectic choice of film creations. Probably closer to the arena of …

SYNOPSIS: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between …