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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer is a 2013 South Korean-American science fiction film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette. Making his first English-language debut film is South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. The movie stars Chris Evans, South Korean actors Kang-ho Song and Go Ah-sung, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Tilda

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: National Treasure

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! As America and you sit down to enjoy hotdogs, beer and fireworks, we sat down to enjoy the 2004 Nic Cage classic National Treasure. Yup. It’s where Nic Cage is a combination of Indy, Lara Croft and Nathan

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Review: Grand Budapest Hotel Blu-Ray

There are a few directors that I will go see any movie they make; granted not a lot, but Wes Anderson has been one of those directors for quite some time. While both his recent movies, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonlight Kingdom, weren’t exactly my favorite films, they still had enough Anderson to keep me

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Starz developing Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”

Less than a month ago we heard the reasons why HBO lost the rights to make an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. On the heels of that, the latest word is that Starz, in partnership with FremantleMedia North America, has taken up the torch, and is the newest network to tackle what promises to

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Comic Issues
Anthony Silva

Comic Issues #177 – Gam3rCon 2014

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Are you bummed that you couldn’t get Comic-Con tickets? Angry that you waited in the queue for hours and still got boned out of a Sunday pass? Have no fear sweet geek, Gam3erCon is here! Tucked away in the shadow of the

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Review: Year’s Best SF – 18

Around this time of year all the book publishers start talking about what you should be reading over the next couple of months. “Great Beach Books”, “Perfect Summer Reading”. No one gets very specific about the criteria though. Should the books be light and easy to read? Linked to big news stories or the latest

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Nick Melton

Review: “Dragon Quest VIII” for iOS

Reviewing a Dragon Quest game from an American standpoint is an interesting prospect. The long-running RPG series is a cultural phenomenon in its native Japan. Those in the Japanese gaming industry consider it Japan’s national game, with new Dragon Quest games selling up to four million copies. The series has received live-action ballet adaptations, and its music

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Transformers: Age of Extinction

Michael Bay and the Transformers are back for Transformers: Age of Extinction. The forth in the series is more of a reboot in a sense that there’s a whole new cast of human characters and some returning bots from the first three films. This time around, the transformers are enemies of the government and are being hunted

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Transformers

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Leland, Elizabeth from Comic Issues, and Spooky all sat down and watched Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers. It’s a rant-filled episode as Leland and Spooky get schooled by Elizabeth about Transformers from back in the day. Spooky gets into all the race issues

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