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News around the Web

Posted on July 30, 2018 by | 1 comment

Hey everyone! I know I said I’d be back with a review for Godzilla, and I will get that out. However, work has been quite busy this week and then we got the news dropped on us that our con, for which we’ve been working our butts off (as you’ve seen) to get ready for, has been ‘postponed until 2019’ with no other information other than that. So, needless to say we’ve all been in a bit of a funk of disappointment since. I haven’t even watched all the SDCC trailers and news yet. So, instead we’re going to have a look at some fun things. Continue reading →

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New Segment! The Road to Comic-Con!

Posted on April 8, 2018 by | 2 comments

What’s this, something new? I know, right?

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The Dark Tower Spoiler Discussion

Posted on August 13, 2017 by | 1 comment

WARNING- THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER HEAVY FOR BOTH THE BOOK SERIES AND THE FILM. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW THE INTIMATE DETAILS OF EITHER ONE, STOP NOW. I have done a spoiler-free review of The Dark Tower film HERE, and that would be a better place to go for my thoughts on the film. If you read on, consider yourself fairly warned. Also possible language and fan-ranting, although I will try to explain myself when I do. This is also a long one, folks, so strap in if you’re going to go down this rabbit hole with me.

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5 Things That Make Me Excited for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Posted on October 16, 2016 by | 2 comments

So a new trailer for Rogue One dropped a couple of days ago. Instead of reviewing the trailer itself (because what can I say, it looks awesome!) I thought I’d do a quick outline of the things that are making me most excited about this film. The trailers have looked great so far, but these are the things that we’ve seen or know to be happening that pique my interest the most. In no particular order, they are:

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Demolishing A Mystery, Or: Why I Never Want To Know The Joker’s True Identity

Posted on September 25, 2016 by | 5 comments

I’ll admit, this wasn’t what I was originally going to write about this week. I’d been working on something else, but then I saw this article on a sidebar: We are Finally Going to Learn The Joker’s True Identity! The moment I saw the title I knew I’d have to save my original topic about revisiting a childhood TV show to see how it fared now, and talk about this instead. I know this article is from a few months ago now, but the idea of it still bears discussion.

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The Dark Side of the Fandom

Posted on September 16, 2016 by | 4 comments

(Apologies for not having this up sooner, my computer decided to be uncooperative)

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Hey everyone, I wanted to talk to you today about something a bit more serious. In terms of mainstream acceptance and sheer scale of dissemination through popular culture, it has never been a better time to carry the title of ‘nerd’ or ‘geek’. If you look at the films with the highest grossing openings, not only are the top three spots held by geek culture movies (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, and The Avengers) but in fact the top thirteen places are held by films within the genre, only interrupted by Furious 7. You can walk into any Target, Spencer’s even Wal-Mart and easily find a plethora of clothing, accessories, and collectibles to proudly proclaim your love of all things geeky. Conventions are huge and plentiful, with cons like E3, the New York Toy Fair, and San Diego Comic Con becoming entities unto themselves as places of premiere news, trailers, and announcements to both geek and mainstream media. We made it guys, widespread acceptance!

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