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The Elephant Man: This choice of film for director David Lynch was something of a departure from his debut Eraserhead two years earlier. Eraserhead was truly independent film-making, but The Elephant Man (1980), set in Victorian England, was a mainstream drama. After The Elephant Man, Lynch then directed Dune, a science fiction blockbuster that turned…

This week I’ve been to China–sort of. In The Assassin (2015, Taiwan) it’s China around the seventh century. In this story, the Chinese dynasty wants to maintain power over rebellious provinces. Nie Yinniang is an assassin for the dynasty. A bird often symbolizes freedom, but Nie Yinniang is torn between assassin’s duties and personal connections…

Another view of X-Men Apocalypse… Oscar Isaac played the original mutant/god En Sabah Nur in X-Men Apocalypse (2016, USA). In 2015, Isaac played a couple of characters with less than god-like powers, though coming close to that. He played a top-level pilot for the resistance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Poe Dameron is flawed…

With the release of X-Men Apocalypse next week, why not go down memory lane first. Since 20o9, the X-Men franchise has released origins films, but the franchise set up the characters and X-Men story-line nine years earlier.     Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Cyclops (James…
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