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Review: Jack the Giant Slayer

Jack the Giant Slayer is the epic retelling of the ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ story we’ve all heard as children, directed by Bryan Singer, mostly known for X-Men, X-Men 2, and the disappointing Superman Returns. Here we find our hero Jack, a dreamer wishing for adventure. He meets up with the reluctant princess, Isabelle, who

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Movie Issues: HELP!

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s March and here at Movie Issues we are dedicating the whole month to movies that deal with heavy music themes. All month long will be watching some good and bad flicks that have major music influences. First up is 1965s HELP!

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Movie Issues: Star Trek: Generations

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week Leland is out of town so we brought back on the to show his good buddy Jon, who went to Sundance this year. Jon takes us though what it’s like to go to the Sundance Film Festival, what movies to

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Movie Issues: The 85th Academy Awards

Since the nominations for the Oscars were announced, the Golden Globes and BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) have since happened, giving us more insight on who will mostly likely win. It’s time for Movie Issues to weigh in on our picks for this years Academy Awards.

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Movie Issues: A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard, directed by John Moore, is the fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise. Once again it stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, now with Jai Courtney as his son Jack, who has gotten himself into some trouble in Russia. John feels it’s his fatherly duty to go and help

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The Oscar Host

Each year people gather to watch The Academy Awards (AKA The Oscars), to vote for their favorites, and celebrate their love of film. Is it seeing their favorite stars? Seeing what they’re wearing? Enjoying and discussing the winning movies? Yes, all that happens. But what is always talked about the next day is how did

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Movie Issues: Beautiful Creatures

Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Beautiful Creatures is a supernatural romance movie directed and written by Richard LaGravenese. Ethan Wate, your average teenage boy eager to get out of his small town, is captivated by new student Lena Duchannes, who is immediately rumored to be a witch after she arrives.

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Movie Issues: Shaft

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! So this week the guys wanted to talk about one bad mother- SHUT YOUR MOUTH! That’s right, we’re just talking about Shaft. We watched 2000’s Shaft, staring the man himself: Samuel L. Jackson. This time we sit down and discuss why Sam

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Movie Issues: Warm Bodies

Warm Bodies is the paranormal zom-rom-com you didn’t know you’d been waiting for. Based on Isaac Marion’s popular novel, and directed by Jonathan Levine (mostly known for his 2011 film 50/50), it follows the story of R, a zombie (Nicholas Hoult) who falls in love with a human named Julie (Teresa Palmer). When their romance

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