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Poster reveal.

Thanks Kev. By the reaction online, it’s quite clear that many have made their minds up about the movie already. I’m not the biggest FF aficionado, but I see no reason as a comic book fan, not to go and see it. Saying that, I do think the second trailer was a slight step down from the first. This latest one seems to have more of a 'standard superhero flick' vibe to it, and I was excited about the hard sci-fi angle.

Seconded. The first X-Men, while obviously not perfect, was so important in redefining the comic book movie genre. Just a few years after the likes of 'Batman and Robin', where the plots were ludicrous, the scripts were dreadful and actors like Val Kilmer had already dismissed the characters as silly people running around in silly outfits, Singer created a character-driven story about a group whose greatest enemy was prejudice, societal bias and hatred, and paved the way for the more up to date fare of Captain America, Avengers and the Dark Knight. Granted, studios still ended up making things like 'Catwoman' at various points along the way, but there's been such a big overall step up in quality over the last decade or so, which absolutely could not have happened without the X-Men franchise. Sounds like Anna Paquin is up for making a comeback, but only on the condition that she gets to fly.

This may be my favourite Bregje pic to date, which is saying quite a bit. Thanks Jennka!

So, no birthday FA Cup final appearance for Gerrard after all, he and Allen were quite simply overpowered and outclassed by Delph and Grealish in the midfield. Someone at Liverpool will have to organise some gift vouchers or perhaps a gold watch for him instead.

Yeah, I seem to remember the original comic book version of Fisk being quite convincing, and a well rounded character with real (albeit loopy) motivations and weaknesses. I like the fact that they've stayed true to that and haven't just made him into a cartoonish villain.

Official trailer. Non-blurry, non-pirated.

I'm not twitching with excitement yet, but it was pretty good. Nice to see that the old guard (Hamill, Ford and Bacca) don't appear to be phoning it in just for the cash. I liked the opening shot a lot too, I was so busy looking at the speeder at the beginning that I didn't realise what was in the background until it was fully onscreen. The only real worry for me is that most of the quick shots look a lot like content from the original trilogy. New versions of Stormtroopers, new R2-style droid, new Vader-esque bad guy. At this point, it seems deliberate, but I'd like to see the movie start marking its own territory a bit more.

I could talk X-Men forever, marking it down as a win that there are still two of us. Yeah, you have to wonder how they'll make the Summers family connection work now. Alex was a young guy in 'First Class' and Scott will be a young guy in this one, although there probably won't be enough of an age gap to rule out the possibility of the two still being brothers. Not sure it’s believable for Lucas Till to play a character in his forties either, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see how it plays out onscreen. If nothing else, it might distract from Wolverine looking fifteen years older in 1983 than he did in 2003.

A leaked preview with Portuguese subtitles found its way onto the internet last night. Having watched it a couple of times, I wouldn't be surprised if this project was starting to scare DC and Warners a bit. I can appreciate that it's just a teaser and an unfinished one at that, but there's something very insular and sound-stagey about the set pieces, it feels empty and looks visually flat. Hopefully the atmosphere opens up more in the next clip.

Desperately hoping that he doesn't end up at Anfield, I'd really rather avoid the barrage of hideous Kop/Klopp puns that would surely ensue. :yuckky:

How big is that opening weekend going to be?

Her performance in 'DOFP' was a big step up from 'First Class', but overall, I never saw her as a great fit for the part. I think Lawrence has an acute case of franchise fatigue at the moment. In addition to four 'Hunger Games' movies, this is her third X-Men and most actors seem to tire of playing the same roles after a while. Unless they're Hugh Jackman, who's happy to be playing an iconic character and owns it, or Robert Downey, who gets paid £60m a pop. She probably isn't a fan of going through the extensive make-up process needed to portray Mystique either. I believe Rebecca Romijn and Alan Cumming hated it too back in the day.

Using the bathroom in a movie theatre? Gross, Hawkeye!

To say Tiiu's career seems to have wound down somewhat would be the understatement of 2015 so far, but she’s still such a good model and way too special to be so underrated. She’ll always be one of my favourites.

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Yeah, in many ways, Mystique is to the X-Men franchise what Black Widow is to the Avengers. Both are examples of characters who've become better known and more popular via the movies, rather than the source material. Mystique's superpower probably helps with that, since shape-shifting looks considerably cooler on film than on the page. A lot of people online like to make comparisons between Wolverine and Iron Man too, in terms of how they're always front and center in every movie. To be fair, there's probably some truth to that, but the likes of Jackman, Lawrence and Downey are the hook for folks who otherwise wouldn't want to go.

Three new clips revealed ahead of the film's full release later this month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPJ90rSpFvE&index=16&list=PLK5HARgNfgj-aohotCZ6Bi6fkSouCbGuO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AFtMIBwKho

I get the feeling that all the newbies will be given relatively modest roles for the time being, but since Jennifer Lawrence has announced that this will be her last gig as Mystique, they may be on the lookout for the franchise's next poster girl. If, let's say, Sophie Turner proves amazingly popular with audiences in this one then I could see her being upgraded to a much bigger part next time. Same probably goes for Olivia and company. For what it's worth now, my ultimate pick for Betsy would have been Gemma Chan of ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Jack Ryan’ fame. A bit of a pipe dream perhaps, but hey, the only thing on Hardy's CV was 'Eastenders'.

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As a longstanding Psylocke fan, I'd have to say that’s quite the curveball. I was pleasantly surprised by some of Munn's serious dramatic work on ‘The Newsroom’, but she's not someone I’d ever associate with playing Betsy. Thus, my expectations aren't particularly high. On the bright side, I was disappointed with the way 'Last Stand' handled the character and I'm happy to see her getting showcased again on the big screen.

Fitting analogy considering it takes a few grams of cocaine, a bottle of whiskey and a brown envelope filled with cash to enjoy a Moronho master class. I probably should have seen it coming when they started a 37-year-old as a lone striker, but I honestly expected a bit of a ding-dong from the game. Seeing a team that half way through the season were being touted as one of the very best of the Premier League era now almost apologetically limping towards the title is odd and disappointing.

Trailer #1. Still not on board with their handling/not handling of Janet, but this is certainly more like it.

On the evidence of the two episodes I've seen so far, Marvel is onto another winner. It's much darker than anything they've done before, the fight scenes are very punchy, and the casting is excellent for Matt, Karen and Fisk, although Foggy seems to have trouble delivering the dialogue he's given at times. Nice references to 'the incident' to tie into the MCU too, but good that they're not laying it on too thick. I'm really excited to see where they go with it.