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Movie Issues: Blackhat

Michael Mann, acclaimed director of Heat, The Insider and Collateral, is starting 2015 off with his new cyber-thriller, Blackhat. The American and Chinese agencies work together to capture a cyber criminal who seems unmotivated by politics or finance, as he seeks to cripple the international banking network. With the help of convict Nicholas Hathaway, Chris

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Movie Issues: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s time to travel though time, space, the afterlife and beyond! This week the guys got all excellent with the 1991 classic, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey. The sequel where our would be heroes, Bill and Ted, are killed and thus must fight

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Movie Issues: Strait-Jacket

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week Leland is spending the weekend away and decided to have one of his best friends guest on this weeks show. So the guys watched the William Castle 1964 classic thriller, Stright-Jacket. Staring Joan Crawford as a woman who beheaded her husband

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Movie Issues Best of 2014

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Happy New Year everybody! Hope everyone had a great New Year’s and you’re all ready for the great movies of 2015 to start. But before we do lets look back at the best and worst that 2014 had to offer. So please

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Movie Issues: Scrooged

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues HQ hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas! We did. For our final movie of the holiday season we watched the great Bill Murray Christmas classic, Scrooged, the Charles Dickens immortal classic A Christmas Carol

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Movie Issues: Big Eyes

If I were to tell you that Tim Burton had a new movie and it wasn’t weird you’d call me a lair. Well, it’s true! Burton’s new movie, Big Eyes, is a biographical film staring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, focusing on the American artist Margaret Keane (Adams) who’s work was fraudulently claimed in the

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Movie Issues: Into The Woods

Rob Marshall is no stranger to directing a Broadway stage show turned live action movie, having directed Best Picture winner, Chicago in 2003. Going back to his musical roots and taking a stab at Stephen Sondheim’s 1986 stage classic, Into The Woods. For anyone not familiar with the show it has a very simple story:

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Movie Issues: Gremlins

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s still the holiday season and we here at Movie Issues HQ are in full swing. We watched watch a Christmas movie that really doesn’t deal with Christmas as the focus, it’s more of the backdrop against some other plot. Thus, 1984

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Movie Issues: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

A film series that started in 2001 with Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings series has finally come to end. Our second long journey though middle earth has reached its climax with the new film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. We pick up right where we last left our hobbits. Bilbo and

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