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Deadpool (2016)

We return from hiatus to wrap up our X-Men/Deadpool series with the real introduction to the Merc with the Mouth in live action. Ryan Reynolds deserves massive credit for willing this project to existence after it should have received the electric chair following X-Men Origins: Wolverine. After being diagnosed with cancer and having a treatment that was supposed to cure him, Wade Wilson seeks revenge against the man who ruined his life.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

We come to the end of our X-Men series. In this final chapter of the Mutant saga, we follow Jean Grey who's powers become fully unlocked and uncontrollable after the X-Men save a group of Astronauts in space. This is where she is exposed to an alien force that begins turning her into the Dark Phoenix. The cast from First Class to Apocalypse make their final appearance together in a film that was released post 20th Century/Disney merger.

Longlegs (2024)

BONUS EPISODE! As a thank you to our longtime listeners and all the new listeners that have recently started following the show we wanted to take a break from Superheroes to talk about maybe the most anticipated horror movie of the year! This film directed by Oz Perkins brings 2010s scream queen Maika Monroe back into the spotlight as an FBI agent who is trying to capture a Oregon serial killer known only as Longlegs. The marketing of this film was excellent from its slow release of movie clips on social media, to a phone number where you could hear the killer's voice, to the hiding of Nicholas Cage's face until you saw it in the theater, and we are so excited to talk about it!

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

The third film in this superhero decades saga takes us to the 1980s where we finally meet young Cyclops, Jean Gray, Nightcrawler and others as they face off against an ancient mutant by the name of En Sabah Nur, or better known to comic book fans as Apocalypse played the by wonderful Oscar Isaac coming off Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

You wanted a First Class sequel? Sike! 

The follow up to 2011's X-Men reboot saw the return of original movie director Brian Singer who decided instead of continuing Matthew Vaughn's prequel film in a satisfying way, that we were going to instead get the third Brian Singer original trilogy movie featuring some of the cast of the last movie. To save the X-Men from a future in which mutants are wiped out by Sentinels, Wolverine must travel back to the 1970s to stop Raven (Mystique) from murdering Bolivar Trask who's death becomes the catalyst for the creation of these weapons of mass destruction. 

X-Men: First Class (2011)

After the cast to the original trilogy got too old and expensive, Fox decided that they were going to do X-Men origin movies... Unfortunately they picked a ridiculously atrocious Wolverine movie to launch this series. After its poor reception Matthew Vaughn's 2011 superhero film then became a prequel/soft reboot to the original franchise by telling the story of a young Magneto and Charles as they navigate ideas of mutant identity and revenge in the 1960s. 

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

The final chapter of the original X Trilogy is controversial in many ways: New director, the departure of some beloved characters, and the first film adaptation of the Dark Phoenix storyline from the comic books. This may not be a well loved film in the franchise, but one that your hosts could not wait to discuss.

X2: X-Men United (2003)

The sequel to the 2000 hit movie re-unites the Wolverine and the X-Men after a mutant attack on the White House with a much bigger budget and facing a new grave human threat: William Stryker (Played by the always excellent Brian Cox)

X-Men (2000)

It is the start of the new millennium, but we are stuck in the weird space in Comic Book films between the Tim Burton Batman aesthetic and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man which will usher in the next era of superhero movies. Set in this time period is the first live action adaptation of the legendary Marvel Comic about a team of superheroes trying to save a world that fears and wants to oppress them.

Saw (2004)

We want to play a game.... Listeners requested we watch the latest entry in the Saw franchise, but it made your hosts think of the fact that they hadn't seen the original is a VERY long time. From the minds of now well known horror creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell, this film mostly centers on two strangers locked in a grimy, disgusting bathroom where they must answer the question: What would you do to survive?