Wonder Boys & X-Men: The Last Stand

Wonder Boys and X-Men: The Last Stand might not have much in common, except they made my Top 10 lists in 2000 and 2006. In this 760th episode, I first dug into the lived-in, lovely loneliness in Curtis Hanson's movie about fans of the printed word. Wonder Boys is funny, offbeat and quite satisfying. Michael Douglas leads a terrific cast while the likes of Maguire, Downey, McDormand and Holmes are varying degrees of wonderful too. Just delightful. Then my X-Men 3 review got even more time. The huge-budget production was rushed, there were probably too many actors in the cast and it (apparently) betrayed the classic Dark Phoenix storyline from the comics. Still, I continue to find it exciting and surprising. So maybe you can be The Cure as Have You Ever Seen does some Wondering and some Standing. Well, Actually: Frances McDormand was in Sam Raimi's Darkman, so she WAS in a superhero film. Subscribe to the podcast in your non-mutated app. Rate, review, comment, share. Follow me on Letterboxd (RyanHYES). Email me ([email protected]). And on the socials, I'm "@moviefiend51" on Twitter and "ryan-ellis" on Bluesky.