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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Summer School

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! As the summer night gets longer and days get hotter we here at Movie Issues went back to school this week with the viewing of the 1987s movie Summer School. Where Mark Harmon stars as a high school gym teacher who is

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Frankenstein’s Army is coming to BluRay/DVD 9/10/13

World War II, Steampunk, and Frankenstein… what else could anyone ask for? Coming soon to home video after a short run in select theaters, this horror story set in the twilight of WWII from director/creator Richard Raaphorst is more than a just another zombie Nazi flick. Perhaps the biggest thing to grab people’s attention has been

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Leland Pierce

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is based on the Rick Riordan novel of the same name and the sequel to the 2010 film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lighting Thief. The new movie, directed by Thor Freudenthal, continues the adventures of Percy Jackson, the son of Greek God Poseidon, who embarks on a journey with his

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: 2Guns

From Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur (2012’s Contraband) comes his new action comedy 2Guns. Based on the BOOM! Studios comic series of the same name, the movie stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as two under cover agents: one DEA, the other NCIS. While investigating one another believing each is stealing money from the mob, they find out they have

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Percy Jackson: The Lighting Thief

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week we decided to watch Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief to prepare for next week’s sequel. It’s a decent fun adventure flick where a kid finds out he’s a Greek demigod accused of stealing Zeus’s ultimate weapon. He then, with his group of friends, set off

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Wolverine

This summer has been full of superheroes fighting evil and standing up for good, but out of all of them, The Wolverine stands alone. Unlike Superman, The Lone Ranger, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, Wolverine has been played by one actor only, Hugh Jackman, who at this point has Wolverine down to a perfect science.

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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Oscar

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We here at Movie Issues have finally reached the end of Stallone Month. It’s sad, but all good things must come to an end, and to end it we watched the 1991 comedy Oscar. This time Stallone is a mob boss trying

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Demolition Man

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! As we enter our third week of watching Sylvester Stallone’s filmography, we wanted to watch one of his off the wall crazy action movies. I think Demolition Man totally fits that bill! This 1993 movie follows the story of a formerly-cyrogenically-frozen evil

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Conjuring

The Conjuring is the dramatization of a little-known account from the 1970s case files of paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson). Director James Wan (Saw and Insidious) pulls out all the stops in this very sophisticated supernatural horror film. The movie is laced with all the right amount of creaky

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