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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Veronica Mars

After much speculation and over a year of waiting, the fan-funded movie based on that little show that just can’t be stopped, Veronica Mars, has finally arrived. Created by Rob Thomas and aired on the UPN Network in 2004, it’s about a teenage private investigator living in Neptune, California, dealing with all sorts of drama. But

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Review: 300 Rise of an Empire

Are you ready for tons blood, yelling, more physically fit men wearing practically nothing and enough slow-motion shots that almost give you enough time to get up and grab some more popcorn? Then you must be ready to see 300: Rise of an Empire. Where the first movie, 300, focused on the battle of King

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Comic Issues
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Comic Issues #159 – Working hard and hardly working

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Everybody’s working so hard lately, but there’s two kinds of working. First there’s the building, designing, digging, power-tools kind of working. We’re doing a lot of that. But there’s also catching up on all the awesome geeky stuff out there. All those

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TV & Movies
Christin Tomaschke

Studio Ghibli Blu-ray Release Announced

Fans of Hayao Miyazaki’s work are in for a treat.  According to Studio Ghibli’s official Twitter account, international Blu-ray releases of both The Cat Returns and Princess Mononoke are currently in the works.  This announcement comes one month after both films were released on Blu-ray in Japan. Only one Studio Ghibli film not currently playing

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men is a look into the world of war through the eyes of the people who see beyond the fighting, who see what happens once the fighting is over. What happens when we, as a society, lose our history and where we’ve come from? That’s just one reason why The Monuments Men did what

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Amazing Spider-man 2 Trailer

The beloved Web-Slinger swing back into theaters this May in Amazing Spider-man 2.  With what’s shaping up to look more like a Sinister Six movie with the addition of B.J. Novak as Alistair Smythe, Peter Parker will definitely his hands full with Electro, Rhino, and as we saw more from this week’s Super Bowl trailer,

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Movie Issues
Spooky

Captain America 2 Super Bowl Trailer

In what will be probably the best movie of 2014 (calling it now), Captain America 2: Winter Solider gave fans everything they wanted in a trailer.  In the 2:30 min the trailer completes its objectives of giving away a little more of the plot while adding tension and speculation.  At the same time it shows

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Bay-formers 4 Super Bowl Trailer

This past weekend saw two Super Bowl disappointments, one the slaughter-fest that was the game, and two the Transformer 4 trailer. At this point is seems that Age of Extinction is a better description of the franchise than just this movie. With the inclusion of “Marky” Mark Wahlberg, director / producer Michael Bay seems to

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TV & Movies
James Huneycutt

[Editorial] Star Trek: In Defense of J.J. Abrams

On May 16 of 2013 Star Trek: Into Darkness released in theaters. The film was well-received by critics and went on to score the largest box office returns in the franchise’s history. (On a more personal note, Into Darkness was reviewed favorably by our own Leland Pierce.) But less than three months later at the One Trek Mind

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