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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: DuckTales The Movie

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! In another attempt for the guys to recapture their youth, they walk down memory lane and remember the Disney cartoons from the after school power block, The Disney Afternoons, and they revisit the DuckTales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp. Uncle Scrooge

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To Timidly Go: Are Sci-Fi Film Tropes Holding Back Sci-Fi Gaming?

With souped-up graphics and processing power, Playstation 4 and Xbox One will bring us one step closer to truly “cinematic” video games. But could game developers’ long quest to emulate silver-screen cool actually limit the creative potential of next-generation console titles? This question came to mind after the recent burst of publicity for Destiny and

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

[Review] Empowered Special Issue: Nine Beers With Ninjette

Fans of Adam Warren’s sexy superhero series Empowered still have a few months to wait until the next trade paperback; Empowered Volume 8 is due to hit stores on December 18. In the meantime, Adam Warren continues to release one-shot issues in the Emp-verse, written by himself and drawn by guest artists. The latest issue,

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Comic Issues
Anthony Silva

Comics Issues #136 – Tying the Knot

You can listen to this episode on our Comic Issues channel at Anchor.fm! This week the Comic Issues Heroes and Heroine get serious and talk about marriage… not to each other of course.  With the writers and artists of Batwoman suddenly leaving the book Anthony, Andrew, and Elizabeth ask DC why their characters can’t get

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[Game-play Impressions] Grand Theft Auto V

  Let’s be honest: odds are, you’re going to play this game.  You probably either already have it or have schemes to obtain a copy.  It’s Grand Theft Auto – the franchise that put open world sandbox titles on the map.  I’m not going to bandy words or go into a long diatribe about the

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Family

The Family is based on the novel Malavita by Tonino Benacquista, directed by Luc Besson (Léon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) and executively produced by Martin Scorsese. This mob comedy finds a mafia boss and his family relocated to a sleepy town in Normandy (France) under the witness protection program after snitching on the mob.

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection

Friday the 13th is one of the longest running horror franchises to date. It mainly focused on a boy who, due to negligence of the camp staff, drowns at Camp Crystal Lake. Decades later, the lake is rumored to have a “death curse” and becomes the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason Voorhess is featured

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Movie Issues Podcast
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Friday the 13th

You can listen to this episode on our Movie Issues channel at Anchor.fm! It’s Friday the 13th y’all! And what better way to celebrate this macabre spooky day than to watch a Friday the 13th movie, so we did. We watched the latest in the series, the 2009s Friday the 13th, staring that guy from Supernatural looking

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Gaming
James Trauben

Killer is Dead and shallow absurdism

Criticizing any Suda51 game for not making sense is a dangerous business. Surrealist, deliberately bizarre narratives are the eccentric developer’s stock in trade. And Killer is Dead’s jumbled mishmash of vague globe-trotting assassination narrative, well-worn eclectic gameplay, and decidedly jarring neon aesthetic is too deliberately incoherent – studiously so, even – for mere accident. Making

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