Movie Review: X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

Posted by Generation Film on June 10, 2016 · Leave a Comment 

Somewhere in the first half of X-Men: Apocalypse a group of scrappy teenage mutants exit a movie theater circa 1983 after witnessing the last of the Star Wars franchise (or what should have been the last): Return of the Jedi (1983). As they debate the merits of the trilogy, mostly going back and forth on … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Posted by Generation Film on May 8, 2016 · Leave a Comment 

In building the all-encompassing Marvel Cinematic Universe (or the MCU for short), Disney/Marvel, a.k.a. our New Cinematic Entertainment Overlords, have sometimes taken shortcuts in fashioning their individual standalone character films. Though the quality in some of their chapters has improved as of late—most notably with the likes of Peyton Reed’s surprisingly amusing Ant-Man (2015) and … Continue reading →

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