Matthew Vaughn

“X-Men: First Class” is a prequel and franchise revival that goes back to the younger days of Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X, and Erik Lehnsherr, better known as Magneto and portrayed in this film by Michael Fassbender. The movie marks the re...

COVER STORY: The clock is ticking on the superhero craze in Hollywood, according to Matthew Vaughn, the director of “X-Men: First Class.” “It’s been mined to death, and in some cases the quality control is not what it’s suppo...

Michael Fassbender’s name seems to pop up most any time a new film project is announced. “Prometheus,” Ridley Scott’s prequel to “Alien”? Jim Jarmusch’s new vampire movie? Danny Boyle’s “Trance”?...

“X-Men: First Class” is an homage to the James Bond movies from the '60s — you know, back when Bond was fun. It's got The Cold War, an epic confrontation between super-powers and a super-villain in a submarine. Matthew “Layer Cake&...

Many provocative questions arose at Comic-Con International this year. Why was Spider-Man playing drums in the Lego Rock Band booth? Was that dog-eared copy of "The Vault of Horror" really worth $5,400? And who in the world was that guy clanging through...

"I think we've kind of crossed the Rubicon with super-hero films," says Matthew Vaughn, who is now at work on "X-Men: First Class" in London....

In a new introduction to the eight-part comic book series "Kick-Ass," which was created in tandem with the film version, Image Comics co-founder Rob Liefeld describes the chief strength of Mark Millar's superhero lark as extolling "hyperreal super-...

Nursing a nasty Jack Daniels hangover, director Matthew Vaughn spent Wednesday morning doing the same thing he’s been doing for weeks: defending “Kick-Ass,” his ultra-violent and deliriously profane superhero film, which opens Friday. “Awkward...

"Kick-Ass" is the movie our parents warned us about, the movie you don't want your children to see. A highly seductive enterprise that's equal parts disturbing and enticing, it will leave you speechless because its characters — especially a 12-year-old....

"Kick-Ass" has given Nicolas Cage one of the quirkier films roles of his career -- and that's saying something -- but the 46-year-old actor brought plenty of his own to the part of Big Daddy, including the idea of imitating......

"The Losers" arrived at theaters this weekend, and the second not-mainstream comic book movie to launch in the last month or so wound up fourth, with $9.6 million, according to studio estimates. Across the Atlantic, the comic book's driving force,......

When "Kick-Ass" director Matthew Vaughn talked to my colleague Geoff Boucher the other day, he vented a little, complaining that too many people had expressed outrage about his new movie--which opened Friday--without actually seeing it first. It's...