Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a comic-book series that began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, Read More
Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, from a screenplay by Simon Kinberg and Zak Penn, based on the Marvel Comics characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, has already suffered all the critical slings and arrows inevitably directed at the third reworking of a comic-book series that began with Bryan Singer’s X-Men in 2000, Read More
Fred Schepisi’s Last Orders , from Mr. Schepisi’s screenplay, based on the Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift, is clearly a labor of love and social conscience for the Australian writer-director-producer.
As it turns out, however, the novel was as much a trap for Mr. Schepisi as it was an opportunity. Though the book runs Read More
