Podcast | X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Scent Of A Woman (1992)

X-Men Apocalypse
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A turning point film in the X-Men saga, and the film that won Al Pacino an Oscar: stories of both are in this podcast episode.


2016 was a turning point in the world of the X-Men movies. After the big success of 2014ā€™s X-Men: Days Of Future Past, 20th Century Fox spent big on X-Men: Apocalypse, and big things were expected of it. On the other hand, it had taken a gamble with a different X-Men-related project, Deadpool. Things would not go the way that the studio had originally expected.

The story of Scent Of A Woman meanwhile is wrapped up in the push for Al Pacino to finally get an Oscar, after several unsuccessful nominations. Not bad, for a film that originally had Jack Nicholson in line for the lead roleā€¦

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