Tag: "X-Men"

The Living End : The End Is Just The Beginning Repeating
2 Comments. 2,309 Views. Posted 21 Jun 2011 @ 11:34am.
The Living End marshal every cliché of our collective existential crisis (I think I’m the dead-eyed office worker, you may be the model citizen or the “restless and bored”) and bang them all together in this epic emo charger, which has all the urgency of a coming apocalypse and all the heroic optimism of an X-Men movie. My Chemical Romance and 30 Seconds To Mars would be awful proud. Read More
X-Men - First Class: Reviewed in Limerick
0 Comments. 2,739 Views. Posted 16 Jun 2011 @ 10:39am.
Before they came to resent one another, Professor X saw Magneto as a brother, And to stop Bacon and Jones, They recruit freaks with hormones, A good way for the franchise to recover. Rating: 3.5/5 Check out more at www.thelimerickreview.com The original X-Men movie, with Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry, kicked off Hollywood’s comic book obsession and still remains one of the best yet. X2... Read More
X-Men: First Class
0 Comments. 769 Views. Posted 16 Jun 2011 @ 1:27pm.
This fifth film in the X-Men franchise is an origin story that takes us back to an earlier time and gives us the backstory of the two central characters Professor X and Magneto. While remaining respectful of its comic book origins, X-Men: First Class breathes new life into the franchise. The film is set in the early ‘60s, a time of Cold War tensions and distrust. At the same time the world was... Read More
X-Men: First Class
0 Comments. 2,615 Views. Posted 3 Jun 2011 @ 10:16am.
It’s the early 1960s and the world is in the grips of socio-political upheaval. It’s a time filled with the hope of JFK and the civil rights movement, but also the cold war, the space age and the Cuban missile crisis. The tension escalating between the US and the Soviet Union is threatening the entire planet – and the world has just discovered the existence of mutants. In the character-driven X-... Read More
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