With the release of X-Men Apocalypse next week, why not go down memory lane first. Since 20o9, the X-Men franchise has released origins films, but the franchise set up the characters and X-Men story-line nine years earlier.     Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Cyclops (James…

DVD movie review     The 5th Wave (2016, USA) gets straight into the story– Biblical-like plagues sweep through America caused by a mysterious alien force in the skies. It sucks dry power sources, causes earthquakes, spreads a bird virus, and brings alien visitors to live among the humans to wipe the humans out. Then…

    As I watch Hollywood movies, I have noticed patterns of themes and issues across films. Thematically, even family films cross over to dramas. Norm of the North (2016, USA) is a family animation so you may expect fun, which it does have, but it is also about serious issues that have propped up…

In My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010, France), Germain is warm hearted, but he is dismissed by his pub friends in almost every sentence they speak. He is thought of as the “village idiot”. But he is warm hearted. His mother criticized the boy’s intelligence and ability to fulfill everyday tasks. Germain, as an older man,…

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