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The new X-Men movie is an improvement over the previous attempt to adapt “The Dark Phoenix Saga” — but only slightly.

‘Glass’ is the final straw.

‘Unbreakable’ is amazing. ‘Split’ was great. ‘Glass’ is not.

The new trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Split’ crossover is wild as hell, mostly thanks to a bananas James McAvoy.

Watch the first official trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s highly-anticipated ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Split’ crossover.

Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, and James McAvoy are back in the ‘Split’ and ‘Unbreakable’ crossover sequel.

Young Bill Denbrough meets James McAvoy’s older Bill in the first set photos from ‘IT: Chapter Two.’

According to those who attended today’s CinemaCon presentation for Glass, we should be feeling pretty optimistic for Shyamalan’s sequel / crossover.

So, I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the world is a pretty scary place right now. Millions of Americans are worried about the future of their healthcare; millions more are struggling under the weight of college debt. North Korea is threatening nuclear attacks on our country. No matter your political alignment, there’s at least a dozen horrifying news stories competing for your attention ever single day. In times like these, even stupid little news stories can be a welcome break from the monotony of horror spitting out of our Twitter feed.

I’m an old enough nerd to remember when the first X-Men movie came out in theaters. At that time, comic books were not the number one driver of all things in popular culture. Bryan Singer’s X-Men certainly featured all the comic’s beloved heroes and villains, but there did seem like there was a concerted effort to tamp down some of their comic-book-ness. Everyone dressed in black. There was no spandex. The story was grounded in weighty real-world themes like prejudice and vengeance. It was the X-Men you knew, but watered down just a bit. It was a rum and coke, not a shot of gin. X-Men: Apocalypse, in comparison, looks like a bottle of Beefeater.

Even though the story behind ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ has been around for 33 years now, the idea of a superhero movie meshed with a movie about time travel seems, let’s say … daunting. Especially for a superhero franchise like X-Men, which is known for having a lot of superheroes. It’s just that it’s hard enough to make a big-budget superhero movie make sense (as the so very recent ‘The Amazin