Directed by Matthew Vaughn I quite enjoyed X-Men: First Class back when it first came out simply because it's fun. It walks the line between dramatic and funny, combining the Cuban Missile Crisis and the always fun threat of nuclear war with "team up" montages and the same sense of fun as you would find … Continue reading X-Men: First Class (2011)
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Seven Days in May (1964)
Directed by John Frankenheimer Seven Days in May is a political thriller set in the imagined future of 1970. Shot in 1963, not long after the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film discusses the threat of nuclear war at a time when that threat was very real. Wait, that's today. Before we meet President Jordan Lyman … Continue reading Seven Days in May (1964)