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Here Are Four Gorgeous New Posters For ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: Following the insanely cool trailer from just a couple of weeks back, Fox today debuted four gorgeous new character posters for next month’s X-Men: Apocalypse, each image depicting one of Apocalypse’ four horsemen.

In the film, “Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.”

Take a look at the new X-Men: Apocalypse posters below (via the film’s official Twitter account), and let us know what you think! The film hits theatres on May 27th!

Gaze Upon The Newest ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer

by Bigyanks

En Sabah Nur.

En Sabah Nur.

En Sabah Nur.

Praise be unto En Sabah Nur!!!

The one true GOD, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), has come to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. He will unleash upon us his four horsemen, Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Archangel (Ben Hardy) and the disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender).

As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young inexperienced X-Men. These fools are nothing but whinny valley kids, Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan); a mall rat, Jubilee (Lana Condor); and a circus freak, Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee). They do have a bad ass speedster though, i mean have you see this guy in action? DAMNNN QUICKSILVER (Evan Peters). These losers will try and stop the one true God in a feeble attempt to save mankind from complete and utter destruction that it deserves.

Witness the destruction of the weak humans in theaters May 27, 2016

Let’s Go To War: Watch The ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Super Bowl Spot!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: This is a damned cool spot. As much as I loved seeing Krang for the first time in the just-released new teaser for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Out of the Shadows, the total destruction witnessed in this new spot for X-Men: Apocalypse might be the coolest Super Bowl trailer thus far (well, unless you count Ant-Man and Hulk fighting over a Coke as a Super Bowl trailer).

In the film, “Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.”

Take a look at the X-Men: Apocalypse Super Bowl spot below, and let us know what you think! The film hits theatres on May 27th!

‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Gets A Stunning New Poster!

by Derek Kraneveldt

Briefly: The very first trailer for X-Men Apocalypse launched earlier today, and probably stopped the Apocalypse / Ivan Ooze comparisons for good.

Seriously, the character looks astonishingly powerful, and with Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) on his side (among others) it’s going to be an impossibly tough battle for McAvoy’s Xavier and company.

If that bad-ass trailer wasn’t enough, Fox has just debuted a stunning new poster for the film, which features an angry Apocalypse crushing… what else but a human skull.

Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

Take a look at the new poster below, and let us know if you’re excited for the film!

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APOCALYPSE IS HERE – Official Trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse

by Bigyanks

The ‘X-Men: Apocalypse‘ trailer is upon here, all praise Apocalypse!! Oscar Isaac will portray En Sabah Nur (better known as Apocalypse), is a centuries-old mutant who was worshipped in Ancient Egypt as a God. After awakening in the 1980s, he is dissatisfied with the state of the mutant’s on the planet, and goes on to recruit Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to be a part of his Four Horsemen to help him cleanse the world.

I’ve always been a great fan of the X-Men Franchise, so i’m definitely excited to catch the latest installment. I think my favorite thing about the X-Men franchise is that instead of rebooting the series it decided to keep the history and continuity of the earlier films. Which probably had more to do with keeping Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. And to rectify the not so popular ‘Last Stand’, and the status of the staple X-men characters it went back and time and retconned it. GOTTA LOVE COMICS!!

X-Men Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27th.

Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

Geekscape Movie Review: Neighbors

by Dennis Finocchiaro

The new Seth Rogan film, Neighbors, delivers exactly what the trailers promise. If the multitude of previews and TV spots made you laugh, you should most definitely see this film.

In it, a married couple, played by Rogan and Rose Byrne (Bridesmaids, 28 Weeks Later), get new neighbors. The problem is, they’re a fraternity, led by Zac Efron (That Awkward Moment, Liberal Arts). Rogan and Byrne decide that they must discuss the possibility of noise and their newborn baby, head over to warn (while still seeming like the cool older couple) and end up partying with the frat.

Eventually, things go wrong and they end up in a feud with the frat house.

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I have to say that I was worried this film would alienate the viewers with situations so upsetting that they couldn’t enjoy the film. Much like Identity Thief, which I couldn’t truly enjoy because of how much Jason Bateman’s life was affected, I was worried I would feel so bad for the family that I wouldn’t be able to even enjoy the film. But while writers Andrew Cohen and Brendan O’Brien did such a good job of making each character likeable in the film, they also created characters with a villainous side. Sure, they were all part of this horrible feud, but each one of them was also so human.

Zac Efron was awesome in this film. His character, while obsessed with becoming a legacy, was also so caring of his frat brothers. Yes, the trailer paints him as the villain, but there are plenty of humanizing moments for his character in the film. He also got to show his comedic side, and succeeded. And for those of you who are wondering, yes Efron takes his shirt off.

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The movie also used the baby in such comedic ways that I almost want to say that she made the film. Sometimes it was just simply the look the baby gave, and other times it was more about situational humor, but overall, the crowd laughed the hardest at the scenes with the baby.

If you want to go out and get the best laughs for your bucks, Neighbors is perfect. The humor ranges from drug to physical to situational, melding together to create a truly comedic masterpiece.

Grade: 4/5

Neighbors hits theaters May 9th. Watch the trailer:

Geekscape Movie Reviews: The Internship

by MCDave

Having grown up in the 90s, I have a difficult time deciding on my favorite comedy movie ever. Classics such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb & Dumber and Happy Gilmore seem to perfectly embody my younger years. In 2005, a younger generation found their identifiable comedy classic with Wedding Crashers. The over-extended, but overly funny, R-Rated release matched the surging success of a fast-talking Vince Vaughn with the hopeless-romanticism of Owen Wilson. Eight years after they changed the face of comedy, the duo return with a more tempered and more reserved effort, The Internship.

After sales partners Billy (played by Vaughn) and Nick (played by Wilson) surprisingly lose their jobs, they are forced to enter an extremely difficult job market. Feeling completely inadequate and essentially prehistoric by comparison, the pair enroll in an online college and sign up for an internship at Google. With a group competition deciding  who will receive the available jobs, Billy and Nick are teamed up with a bunch of oddballs who seemingly have no shot of winning.

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The Internship proves to be a very difficult film to dissect. In many regards, there’s plenty to both love and hate about director Shawn Levy’s latest effort. For starters, I have always been a huge outspoken voice against two hour (or longer) comedies. Clocking in at a hefty 119 minutes, The Internship takes a usually negative aspect and actually moves along fairly well. What’s so difficult to dissect about that? It sounds like an irrefutable positive, right? Not so fast. Although the comedy moves along quite well and never bogs down the viewer, The Internship takes an overused “team of misfits” approach and delivers the same reusable jokes over and over again. Vastly unoriginal and predictable, The Internship can be easily be summed up the following way. Imagine a genius comedy such as 2003’s Old School with a weaker supporting cast (warning – there are no Will Ferrell circa 2003 type of characters here) and a PG-13 rating. It’s about as teenybopper and mainstream as a comedy blockbuster can get.

Despite a more restrained crop of jokes and a depleting Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, The Internship is sure to appeal to a large portion of the general masses by simply playing it safe and sticking to the formula. With such an approach, it becomes difficult to criticize the film for being a semi-appealing piece of fluff comedy. The Internship does nothing to turn audiences away, but instead wallows in the shadow of previous Vaughn and Wilson work from nearly a decade ago. However, I was astonished to see that, in the last five years, Vaughn hasn’t been in a single film I have recommended to my audience. While The Internship is no where near as bad as dreck such as The Dilemma and Couples Retreat, it’s still a far cry from the level of film that helped catapult his career.

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The Internship is a two-trick pony that rests solely on the PG-13 shoulders of its heralded stars, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson. To its advantage, the feature moves along without a hiccup and generates many chuckles. Yet, if you’re expecting an elevated and unforgettable laugh-out-loud movie experience, you’re aiming way too high. The Internship is a generic comedy that swims comfortably in the waters of mediocrity. Personally, I’d avoid rushing to a theatre to catch The Internship. Save its timid PG-13 humor for an appropriate cable television setting.

GRADE: 2.5/5

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