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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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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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The Son of Batman is Coming

Yesterday TV Guide (another source of geek news apparently) released the first trailer for the next DC Original Animated movie following Justice League: War.  Based of off Grant Morrison’s Batman and Son story line where he first introduced Damian Wayne, the preteen son of Bruce Wayne and Talia Al Ghul.  In the story the young

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Review: I Know That Voice!

Animation has always been a part of modern culture. It pushes the limits of film and story telling with thousands of hand drawn images falling in perfect secession in front of a camera and capturing the imagination of both young and old. The world wouldn’t be the same without animation, and animation wouldn’t be the same without

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Subtitled Trailer Released for Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises

The Wall Street Journal has released an English subtitled clip of the Japanese trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s 11th and final film, The Wind Rises.  In his final film, Miyazaki tells the story of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japan’s fighter planes during World War II.

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