This Friday, May 17^th make sure you stop by PhilaMOCA because we are teaming up with them for the Philadelphia Premier of Lloyd the Conqueror at 7:30 pm and 10pm respectively. The film is a Canadian comedy co-written and directed by Michael Peterson starring Brian Posehn and Mike Smith, better known as Bubbles of the Trailer Park Boys.

Lloyd the Conqueror is the story of three college slackers who are forced to join their Medieval Literature professor’s LARPing league in order to pass his class and keep their financial aid. They must fight against the dreaded Horde of Chaos to ensure not only victory, but a passing grade as well. You can pick up tickets here philamocalloydtheconqueror.brownpapertickets.com check out the trailer below!

The Fast and Furious franchise has definitely had its ups and downs over the years. We all remember the tender bromance of 2 Fast 2 Furious and the collective “Meh” that was unleashed when The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift was released back in 2006.

Things didn’t really get back on track until Vin Diesel finally reteamed with Paul Walker for 2009’s Fast & Furious and since then the franchise has managed to seemingly get better and better with each new installment.

Don’t get me wrong, I love these films and even at their worst they are still pretty entertaining.

Friday May 24, we get the newest film in the series, Fast & Furious 6, which is going to bring back our favorite U.S. DSS Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson AKA The Rock) and this time team him up with Dominic’s crew. See after the events of Fast Five everyone got rich, but now they would be arrested on site if they came back to the US. Luke Hobbs is offering them the chance to all get pardons, but only if they help him take down a mercenary named Owen Shaw and his ruthless second-in-command, Dominic’s thought-dead lover, Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez).

We have 30 passes for two to a screening Tuesday, May 21 at 7:30 PM at the UA King of Prussia. Want to check out the film before it hits theaters May 24^th? Simply comment with your favorite Fast & Furious film and why and I will be picking 30 folks at random May 19^th and they will be checking the film out thanks to Universal Pictures. (more…)

Cloud Atlas was definitely one of my favorite films last year. And while its theatrical run was short lived, now that it’s hitting Blu-ray and DVD, a whole new audience will finally get to experience this modern masterpiece.

I thoroughly enjoyed the film the first time around, and on repeated viewings you begin to really notice exactly how much went into weaving together the six interconnected storylines that make up the film.

Cloud Atlas is the adaptation of the 2004 book by David Mitchell consisting of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or observed) by the main character in the next. The film shows how history not only repeats itself, but also connects to people in all time periods and places.

The book was originally thought to be unfilmable that is until the Wachowskis came along and made it happen, with the help of Tom Tykwer. Warner Brothers is releasing a combo-pack Blu-ray, DVD and digital copy via Ultraviolet edition.  Here are some of my thoughts on the release. (more…)

Missed your chance at getting tickets to Star Trek into Darkness this Wednesday at the UA Riverview? Fret not loyal readers, we are offering a contest for the Geekadephia Guest List starting today and running until Wednesday morning.

We have 15 pairs of passes for readers that can prove why they are the biggest Star Trek fans, and unlike the passes we gave away Friday these seats are GUARANTEED ADMITTANCE to the screening.

Think you have what it takes? Simply comment using your REAL FULL NAME with why or send me an email to [email protected] with fanart or photos, whatever you think qualifies you to get your name on the Guest List.

Not only will you win a seat, but you will also be in the running for a great Star Trek into Darkness prize pack we will be giving away at the screening to one lucky reader.

In the meantime check out the trailer below!

In one of the odder forms of movie promotion, Universal Pictures has created a Despicablimp which is currently in the midst of a national tour (6 months, 22,000 miles) in support of Despicable Me 2’s  July 3rd impending release.

The Despicablimp will also be hovering over to various landmarks in the Philadelphia area on Tuesday, May 14th. The blimp can be tracked in real-time via GPS at the Despicablimp Command Center at www.despicablimp.com.

Folks can also tweet sightings of the blimp or post photos to Instagram or Flickr using #despicablimp to see it featured on the site, and participate in weekly prize giveaways.

Visitors to the site can also enter for a chance to win a trip for four to the Hollywood world premiere of Despicable Me 2 and get the chance to ride in the blimp!

EDIT: This just in: “Unfortunately due to weather conditions over the weekend, the Despicablimp’s flight plan to Philadelphia was delayed.”

Will keep you posted on the new date.

You read right Geekadelphia is partnering up with Paramount Pictures and bringing you one of the hottest Sci-fi films this summer for FREE!

The screening will take place at The UA Riverview, Wednesday, May 15^th at 9pm the day before Star Trek into Darkness hits theaters nationwide Thursday, May 16^th. How can you attend this screening you ask? Well we have two options for our loyal readers. We have 200 seats via gofobo.com up for grabs RIGHT NOW using the code below and you can snag yourself a seat that way. FIY: those are your standard gofobo passes and you WILL have to arrive early and wait in line like all screenings, those seats are NOT guaranteed and are first come first serve.

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Now if those are all gone fret not, we will have another option coming Monday for 25 pairs of tickets for “Geekadelphia VIP Guests”. These seats ARE guaranteed and this will also put you in the running for a special Star Trek into Darkness prize pack consisting of exclusive Star Trek into Darkness promotional items as well as the new Star Trek video game for XBOX. So if you miss out on these passes keep an eye on the site Monday.

So you can grab a pass now, or wait till Monday to enter or do both! In the meantime check out the trailer below:

No cameras, camera phones, or other recording devices permitted in screening. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. Theatre capacity is limited and passes won do not guarantee seating. (So please show up early!) Theater is not responsible for overbooking. Ticket holder and guest must enter theater together.

Geekadelphia is partnering up with what is fast becoming one of the best alternative cinema venues in the city PhilaMOCA to bring you the Philadelphia premier of a great comedy about LARPers Lloyd the Conqueror. The film is a Canadian comedy co-written and directed by Michael Peterson starring Brian Posehn and Mike Smith, better known as Bubbles of the Trailer Park Boys.

Lloyd the Conqueror is the story of three college slackers who are forced to join their Medieval Literature professor’s LARPing league in order to pass his class and keep their financial aid. They must fight against the dreaded Horde of Chaos to ensure not only victory, but a passing grade as well. The film will be screening twice Friday, May 17th at 7:30pm and 10:00pm you can get more info here, in the meantime check out the trailer below!

I am a huge fan of Astron 6, the five filmmaker group from Canada known for making amazing low-budget genre inspired shorts and features. Manborg is their newest offering, which just hit DVD last Tuesday via Dark Sky Films. The film is the story of a half-man, half-cyborg: Manborg who is Killed while battling the forces of hell. He is brought back as a super soldier in order to fight an army of Nazi vampires and demons led by the nefarious Count Draculon.

After reading that, I can’t picture why anyone wouldn’t want to see this film. I got to chat a bit with the director of Manborg and one fifth of Astron 6 Steven Kostanski about what went into making a low-budget masterpiece like Manborg and what were some of the inspirations for this is slice of 80’s infused VHS madness, enjoy!

So what was the inspiration for Manborg?

Well it came about when I was watching The Eliminators with Jeremy Gillespie the co-writer on the film, who also plays the Baron. We are watching this cheesey 80’s sci-fi movie from the 80’s by Empire Pictures with a cyborg in it and as we are watching it Jeremy says out of nowhere “we should make a movie called Manborg.”

That was really all it took. I got hooked on the name and I started formulating a premise in my head and that is how the movie started.

Manborg to me seemed like an 80’s action film mixed with 90’s videogames and some anime thrown in for good measure.

It definitely has a 90’s CD-ROM game quality to it. It’s very reminiscent of Mortal Kombat, Castlevania or Doom, stuff like that. Any full motion video type games, I always say Rebel Assault 2 was a good example of that, because I played the hell out of that when I was a kid.

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Iron Man 3 is not only the third film in the franchise that originally started Marvel’s Phase One in 2008, but it’s also the first film post Avengers starting Phase 2. Phase 2 will eventually lead up to The Avengers 2 and their cosmic battle with one of the greatest villains in the Marvel universe Thanos (Probably best known for killing half the universe to impress Lady Death), so before that happens things honestly have to get real, and they do starting with Iron Man 3.

Iron Man 3 finds Tony Stark shortly after the events that transpired in New York during The Avengers. Tony hasn’t been quite the same since his near death experience and passing through the wormhole. This coupled with his newfound monogamy and dedication to Pepper Potts gives us a much different protagonist than the one who started the series.

Tony Stark finally has something real to lose and in a strange way that scares him more than anything.

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Star Trek into Darkness may not be hitting theaters till May 17^th , but the new video game based on the franchise recently hit retailers April 23^rd for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.

Star Trek is a single player action game with co-op elements, where the players can choose to play as either Kirk or Spock who work together to get to the heart of a mysterious attack by an enemy with unimaginable strength. Marianne Krawczyk who also worked on the God of War franchise helped develop the plot of the game to work in conjunction with the film and to be canon within the new Star Trek universe.

We have 5 copies of the Xbox 360 version to give away. Want to win one? Simply comment by May 12th with your favorite Star Trek video game past or present and five lucky readers will be picked at random to get a free copy of the game thanks to Paramount and Bandai Namco.

Get more info here www.startrekgame.com

Good luck and check out a trailer for the game below!

One of the closing night films for the Cinedelphia Film Festival on April 27^th is the sequel to the 2010 cult classic Birdemic: Shock and Terror - Birdemic 2: The Resurrection. If you haven’t seen the first Birdemic, it’s a bit like The Room, but with attacking CG eagles and vultures instead of the super awkward sex scenes. Also, where Birdemic fails in its technical prowess, it more than makes up for it with a sincerity you honestly can’t fake on screen.

A few weeks ago I got to chat via Skype with James Nguyen the director of the Birdemic films while he was in Vietnam working on pre-production for his next romantic thriller. We discussed not only Birdemic 2, but also his love for Hitchcock, Birdemic 3 and what he thinks of when he hears Philadelphia. Enjoy!

I know Hitchcock is a huge inspiration for you, what is it about his films that inspired you as a filmmaker?

I think it is the romantic thriller genre, which he invented. A romantic thriller is a feature film that has the elements of a romance and a thriller, plus a suspense twist and turn. Besides those two main elements, not all is well, or all is what it seems to be.

I never went to film school, but if there was a film school for me, it was watching a lot of Hitchcock films. About 12 or 13 years ago I picked up the camera and started shooting and I became a filmmaker by accident.

In  2006 you started production on Birdemic, did you think then, six years later you would be working on a sequel?

No.

Birdemic when I started it was just a passion project. I had self-financed it from my day job, because I loved making movies as an indie filmmaker. Also part of it was an homage to Hitchcock’s The Birds. (more…)

Oblivion is Tom Cruise’s summer entry into this summer’s post-apocalyptic summer movie extravaganza. There are no less than 6 films this summer that are variations on this very popular theme, including two comedies that deal exclusively with the end of humanity. So how does Oblivion stand out in the summer filled with either watching humanity end or dealing with the aftermath?

By using the old adage less is more.

Oblivion is the tale of a world post alien invasion when almost all of humanity has already retreated to Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. The film spends the bulk of the time focusing on Jack (Tom Cruise) and his partner Victoria who have been tasked as custodians of the dead planet. They are in charge of fixing the drones that pick off the last of the alien invaders and protect Hydro plants that are busy converting the planets remaining water supply into energy. (more…)