jean grey
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X-Men’s Hellfire Gala Is Already a Scandal, Surprising No One
After weeks of hype-building, the X-Men’s 2021 Hellfire Gala kicked off this week in the pages of Marvel’s ongoing Hellions, Marauders, and X-Force series. Unsurprisingly, the extravagant mutant gathering is already threatening to upend the delicate balance of power keeping humanity from going to war with Krakoa. Let it be said, though, that everyone arrived…
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Dark Phoenix Didn’t Understand Who The X-Men Are
All you have to do is take one look at the box office totals for Fox’s X-Men films to see that, even when the movies weren’t particularly good (see: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Apocalypse), people were still clamouring to see them. So where did Dark Phoenix go wrong?
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Simon Kinberg Likens Dark Phoenix’s Original Ending To Captain America: Civil War And Captain Marvel
While the cast of Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix has spoken about the similarities between the film’s original ending and the ending of another recent big superhero film — similarities that were so extensive they required the final X-Men instalment to undergo extensive reshoots — everyone has been coy about what that other superhero film was,…
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Dark Phoenix Is A Bittersweet Goodbye To Fox’s X-Men
Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix became one of the most significant of Fox’s X-Men films the moment it became clear it would be the last instalment in the franchise that set the stage for the modern comic book movie boom. Not only was the film going to bring the story of Charles Xavier’s mutant heroes to…