What you may need to know
1. Yes, this is a real film.
2. After The Usual Suspects (1995), Bryan Singer was the new Stanley Kubrick for five minutes, then spent the next decade doing superhero flicks like X-Men (2000), X2 (2003) and the lamentable Superman Returns (2006)
3. That said, he also created House (TV series), and gave us Tom Cruise as a good Nazi in an eye patch in the camp-tastic Valkyrie (2008).
4. Who’s Jack? It’s Nicholas Hoult, from Skins (TV series), About A Boy (2002) and A Single Man (2009).
5. Random Ewan McGregor spotting @ 1’08. Poor Ewan. We blame George Lucas.
6. Our prognosis: there’s a good reason Singer’s already signed up to direct the next X-Men movie.
7. Suggested Irish Times review headline: Fee Fi Ho Hum.
Release Date: Summer 2013
