Review: X-Men First Class

Groovy new mutants head to school to find out how it all began.

So instead of doing an X-Men 4 with a costly cast, the filmmakers decide to do a Phantom Menace and start from the beginning of the X-Men story with Thursday’s opening of X-Men First Class in Hong Kong.

As a reader of Neonpunch you know we look at movies in a very differently way than traditional movie reviews so even though you may have heard the good buzz on the film online – we’re here to tell you differently.

We were very excited to see X-Men First Class as we loved the 3 original films, yes even the 3rd one (but not X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and with Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn leading 2 of our favorite Irish and Scottish actors respectively; Michael Fassbender who was glorious in Inglorious Basterds and James McAvoy as a pre-crippled Charles Xavier – it should be a good time at the cinema.

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The Story of How Apple Got to 500,000+ Apps in 3 Years

Infographic + Apple = amazing reading!

It’s amazing that the App Store has only been around since July 2008 and it just hit a huge milestone of 500,000 apps…and counting.

This amazing infographic shows the whole story from its beginning to the most popular apps to each 100K milestone – a fascinating snapshot at the business behind your iPhone, iPod and iPad:

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The LG Optimus Black is First to Light Up Hong Kong with a NOVA Display

Woah! That’s bright!

As readers well know, we’ve been to a few mobile phone launches, and we just love the names that companies give their phones.

Normally it’s a cool name like “incredible,” “desire” or something cute like “Lollipop” and “Cookie.” Rarely do we see a phone that is given an antonym for its name but LG has decided to name its first NOVA screen mobile phone the Optimus “Black.” Now we know that it’s going for a name that denotes cool, sexy and sleek and black certain has all those connotations over “white” and “bright.”

However for us, our first thought for a name would be “wannabe,” because the LG Optimus Black looks a lot like the first generation iPhone. But hey we understand and we’re sure Apple does as well.

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Green Lantern Lights Up Hong Kong’s Darkest Night on June 16

Here’s your sneak peek at the Emerald Gladiator’s feature film debut.

Warner Bros invited us out to see a preview of their Summer tentpole Green Lantern today – it was 30 minutes in 2D and an extended trailer in 3D. And while, we, along with most other superhero movie geeks have scoffed at what’s been released so far, this preview has us very, very excited – as far as to say this could be THE superhero movie of the Summer.

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Hong Kong Wakes Up From Its Second Hangover on June 2

Win tickets to a special Neonpunch screening next week!

After Las Vegas, the Wolf Pack goes to Bangkok.

The sequel to the 2009 blockbuster comedy is back for a new bachelor’s party, this time in Thailand. The fun starts again on June 2 in Hong Kong but if you are a fan of the Neonpunch Facebook page you can actually see it on May 31st!

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