Written by: Stoic Taco

It can’t be easy to be given a chance to reinvigorate a waning franchise and ask the audience to take a gamble and trust your decisions to cast new actors into existing and well-known roles and at the same time remain within the realm of believability.

Matthew Vaughn has not only accepted that challenge and exceeded expectations but also managed to change audience perception of the X-Men series, which lost a lot of credibility and popularity after the disastrously appalling X-Men: The Last Stand.

X-Men: First Class is an origin story of how Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr met, worked together, and eventually become Professor X and Magneto. It is set during the 1960′s and a lot of the film takes place during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis which adds a layer of reality within the realm … Read More »

Written by: Stoic Taco

It can’t be easy to be given a chance to reinvigorate a waning franchise and ask the audience to take a gamble and trust your decisions to cast new actors into existing and well-known roles and at the same time remain within the realm of believability.

Matthew Vaughn has not only accepted that challenge and exceeded expectations but also managed to change audience perception of the X-Men series, which lost a lot of credibility and popularity after the disastrously appalling X-Men: The Last Stand.

X-Men: First Class is an origin story of how Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr met, worked together, and eventually become Professor X and Magneto. It is set during the 1960′s and a lot of the film takes place during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis which adds a layer of reality within the realm … Read More »