News
Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Sophie Turner, and More Return February 14, 2019
Sep 27, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
20th Century Fox has shared the first trailer for Dark Phoenix, the latest film about Marvel Comics’ mutants the X-Men. This one follows 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. Bryan Singer directed those two films (as well as the first two X-Men films back in the early 2000s), this time it’s Simon Kinberg’s time in the directing chair, making his directorial debut after being a longtime producer and writer in the franchise. More
Also featuring interviews with Slowdive, Slow Club, First Aid Kit, Lykke Li, James McAvoy, The Horrors, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The War on Drugs vs. Sharon Van Etten, and More
May 23, 2014
By Laura Studarus and Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the June/July issue, which is on newsstands now. It features Future Islands on the cover as well as interviews with Slow Club, Lykke Li, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Horrors, Slowdive, The War on Drugs vs. Sharon Van Etten, First Aid Kit, James McAvoy, John Slattery, tUnE-yArDs, and more. More
Interviews
Sep 01, 2014
By Austin Trunick
James McAvoy may be best recognized in the U.S. for his dramatic turns in acclaimed period films such as Atonement and The Last King of Scotland, and for playing the heroic Professor Charles Xavier in the two most recent X-Men films. The character he plays in Jon Baird’s wildly stylized Filth lies on the opposite end of the spectrum. More
Digging Deeper Into Filth
May 30, 2014
By Austin Trunick
Whether you associate him with the X-Men’s heroic leader, Professor X; the friendly faun, Mr. Tumnus, in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Dr. Garrigan in The Last King of Scotland; Robbie Turner in Atonement; or someone else entirely, one thing is almost for certain: you’ll rarely think of James McAvoy as the bad guy. More
The stars of X-Men: Days of Future Past Discuss the Superhero Franchise's Latest Entry
May 22, 2014
By Austin Trunick
The new X-Men: Days of Future Past—the blockbuster superhero sequel opening in theaters this week—takes place across two timelines. The film opens in a Hellish post-apocalyptic future where sentient robots have run amok and massacred or enslaved much of the Earth’s population. Most of the film, however, takes place in the early 1970s, as Wolverine is sent into the past to prevent this bleak future from coming to be.
“I think Wolverine never wanted to leave the 1970s,” says Hugh Jackman, who has appeared as the clawed superhero in all seven X-Men films. “The hair, the mutton chops, the clothes… I think the moment that Tears for Fears, A Flock of Seagulls, Wham!, Duran Duran came along Wolverine was like, I’m out.” More
Reviews
Apr 11, 2017
By Jason Wilson
M. Night Shyamalan’s career rehabilitation has been a long time coming. More
Sep 11, 2014
By Austin Trunick
Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) and Connor (James McAvoy) mourn through a shared, world-shattering heartbreak. Connor buries his feelings, while Eleanor lets herself be overcome by them. More
