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Bryan Singer

AWFJ 2018 EDA Awards winners announced

Thu, Jan 10, 2019
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Our most honored films are Roma (five awards), The Favourite (four awards), and Can You Ever Forgive Me? (three awards).

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Bohemian Rhapsody movie review: dynamite with a laser beam

Tue, Oct 30, 2018
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Rami Malek brings warmth, humor, and a down-to-earth humanity to the larger-than-life Freddie Mercury. But it is the power of Queen’s music — the rousing good cheer, its sheer rock ’n’ roll joy — that fills up this pure brash entertainment.

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X-Men: Apocalypse movie review: everyone knows the third movie is always the worst

Thu, May 19, 2016
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About precisely nothing other than pure pulp comic-book soap-opera rigmarole, overshadowed by clichés, implausibilities, and missed opportunities.

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Where Are the Women? X-Men: Days of Future Past

Sun, Feb 08, 2015
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Jennifer Lawrence’s complex antagonist and lots of female mutants make for a respectable showing, particularly for the genre. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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X-Men: Days of Future Past movie review: time for hope

Mon, May 19, 2014
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With its time-twisting plot, sci-fi soapiness, powerful humanism, and to-die-for cast, this is the summer blockbuster done with elegance and heart.

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Jack the Giant Slayer (review)

Fri, Mar 22, 2013
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Keeps trying to fly off into potentially fascinating directions and then getting yanked back into a mushy mediocrity…

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Jack the Giant Slayer (trailer)

Mon, Feb 11, 2013
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I guess we’re in for a slew of “reimagined fairy tale” flicks.

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question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
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Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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question of the day: Who should — and should not — direct a new Star Wars movie for Disney?

Wed, Oct 31, 2012
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A few shoulds off the top of my head: Bryan Singer. Brad Bird. Christopher Nolan. Joss Whedon. A few should-nots: Brett Ratner. Michael Bay.

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question of the day: What is Bryan Singer gonna do with ‘Battlestar Galactica’?

Thu, Aug 20, 2009
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Have you heard? Universal has signed Bryan Singer — of Valkyrie, X-Men, and The Usual Suspects fame — to produce and direct a Battlestar Galactica feature film. I wrote a bit about my thoughts on this prospect yesterday over at Film.com. The gist: I don’t see how this can end up as anything other than … more…

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