The creative team behind X-Men: First Class do several very interesting and ambitious things in this entertaining prequel to the wildly successful trilogy of X-Men movies that thrilled audiences beginning in 2000. For most filmmakers, it would’ve been enough merely to imagine the lives of the characters before the original trilogy began and to show how they came together, harnessed [...]

Introducing Mystique Jennifer Lawrence, a young rising star and a 2011 Oscar nominee for best actres Introducing Mystique Jennifer Lawrence, a young rising star and a 2011 Oscar nominee for best actress for Winter Bone, joins the cast of X-Men: First Class as Raven, aka Mystique, a younger version of a character who figures into the previous X-Men movie trilogy. [...]

Introducing Havok Havok is one of the new X-Men characters introduced in X-Men: First Class. Alex Su Introducing Havok Havok is one of the new X-Men characters introduced in X-Men: First Class. Alex Summers, aka Havok (Lucas Till), can destroy targets by emitting rings of super-heated energy waves. He joins the X-Men after being freed from solitary confinement in the [...]