Continuing my personal 2025 Oscar nominations, today I will be writing about the race for Best Actor.
This year’s Best Actor race is one of the best in years, featuring five phenomenal actors doing some of their best work. I’ll be happy no matter which of these guys takes home the trophy: Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).
Every time I see an X-Men movie I spend the next several days pondering which mutant power I’d most like to have. Shape-shifting, perhaps, which could come in handy in any number of circumstances. Invisibility… definitely a contender. Telepathy would certainly be intriguing.
Wolverine’s power is perhaps the most appealing on its face — healing powers that grant him (near) invincibility and eternal life. The adamantium skeleton and claws are a bonus — installed in him, as we witness in this film, by power-mad military man William Stryker (Danny Huston). But his real power is that he can’t be permanently injured.
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