San Diego fictional icon Ron Burgundy is back as his infamous legend continues this week in Anchorman 2. With his news crew of misfits and rejects, Burgundy travels to the Big City circa 1980 to take on 24hr news, and himself since he’s probably the worst person in the movie. Neglectful, racially insensitive, sexist, ignorant,
American Hustle is the new film written and directed by David O. Russell (The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook) where he takes his favorite actors and places them in a long con game where everyone who plays could lose everything. A con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), along with his amateur grafter girlfriend Sydney (Amy
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s the week of Christmas, and we here at Movie Issues HQ are in full swing filled with the holiday spirit. This week we watch some of our favorite holiday cartoons: Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special, and two
This got started when I wondered if you could do a “Twelve Days of Christmas” list with books and graphic novels. Turns out you can, if you play a little fast and loose with the rules. Here then is a list of some of my favorite books and series, in case you were looking for
In the new movie Saving Mr. Banks, director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) tells the tale of how Hollywood mastermind Walt Disney finally convinced Mary Poppins author P. L. Travers to sign over the rights to make the Mary Poppins movie, which is still considered one of the greatest films to date. What is
You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! We’ve been meaning to talk about this for weeks, and it’s finally here: the Podcast crew and Beau from The Villainous Lair try to figure out what’s up with “The All-New Marvel NOW.” With over a dozen titles due to be released, revamped, renumbered, or
It was time to go to art school, and I was in need of a computer on the go. While my Compaq Presario had served me well, I made a pit stop at the Apple store to make a pretty expensive purchase. From that moment, I’ve been using the Mac OS X, and while I’ve always
You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! Still keeping with the Christmas Holiday theme, this week the guys watched one of the few horror Christmas flicks they could find. This year they did 1989s Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! What a terrible movie. A blind psychic
We’re back for another round of long walking in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. We pick up right where the first movie ended: Bilbo, along with Gandalf and Thorin Oakenshield and his twelve companions, continue east to the edge of the forest of Mirkwood where they encounter a skin-changer, are attacked by