X-Men Apocalypse

The “first mutant” En Sabah Nur is revived in a ruin in Egypt and proceeds to recruit four mutants to be his Horsemen in ushering in an Apocalypse. Can the newly-reformed X-Men stop him?

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Overall: Don’t think too hard about the timeline—or physics, or the concept of “scale”—and this is plenty of fun. Watching First Class and Days of Future Past is helpful, but not strictly necessary.

Queens of Avalon

Canadian folk/filk artist Heather Dale wrote a musical that was intended as a Wicked-style version of the Arthurian legend, a two-woman show starring herself and CJ Tucker. I joined the Kickstarter and got a DVD of the stage production.

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Overall: I love Dale’s music; I have all of her albums. I keep watching her tour schedule to see if she’ll be in the NYC area. But this is rough and has a bunch of the standard problems of filming a stage show; it’s not the vehicle I’d use to introduce someone to her.