Posts tagged "Hugh Jackman"

After Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, many Marvel fans, like I was, were thrilled that so many of the Marvel characters were finally back under one roof.  I was over the moon excited (and I still am!) to see the Fantastic Four and the X-Men brought into the MCU.  But fans had ques

It’s hard to believe that Hugh Jackman has been playing the character of Wolverine for almost twenty years now.  Mr. Jackman’s casting was one of the many minor miracles that made Bryan Singer’s original X-Men film from 2000 such a wonderful revelation.  It’s

The X-Men film franchise began with such promise but it’s been a big mess for quite a while now.  Bryan Singer’s 2000 X-Men film launched the golden age of super-hero films that we’re still living in.  No one had ever before brought a super-hero team to life on scr

I think if I had never read Wolverine, the classic 1982 mini-series written by Chris Claremont and illustrated by Frank Miller & Joe Rubinstein, I would have had a lot more enjoyment from the new film The Wolverine. I think The Wolverine is a very solid film, an excellent Wolverin