Movie Review: ‘Jason Bourne’

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Director: Paul Greengrass Cast: Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander, Vincent Cassel, Julia Stiles, Riz Ahmed Story: When former CIA agent Nicky Parson’s makes contact with Jason Bourne he lands back in… Continue reading

Captain America in the Age of Anti-Heroes

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Captain America is one of the oldest and most enduring superheros in fiction. He got started back during WWII when two Jewish-Americans tried to smack Adolf Hitler the best way they could: writing… Continue reading

SDCC Movie Trailer Round-Up

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We get a bunch of new content and trailers to drool over during San Diego Comic-Con. And here are some of them! We’ve picked out some of the geekier ones to comment on.… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Ghostbusters’

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Director: Paul Feig Cast: Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth Plot: A theoretical physicist who used to try to prove the existence of ghosts reteams with her old colleague, an… Continue reading

Movie Review: ‘Star Trek Beyond’

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  Plot:  Three years into the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission, Captain James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) finds himself at a crossroads as his 30th birthday approaches. He’s begun to question why he joined… Continue reading

Theater Review: Branagh’s Romeo and Juliet (2016)

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This production was directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh at the Kenneth Branagh Theater Company as part of their Plays at the Garrick series. The play runs from May through August of this year but… Continue reading

‘The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampire’ Retro Review

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In the early 1970’s the Gods of Cult Films smiled upon moviegoers the world over when; Hammer Studios, the dominant studio behind the great gothic horror films of the era, collaborated with the… Continue reading

The Pull List: 7/20/2016

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Buzz-worthy books of the week Black Hammer #1 Jeff Lemire does his own subversion of superheroes about a group of former vigilantes exiled by a multiversal crisis. Deadpool and the Mercs for Money #1… Continue reading

Why We Need a Female Ghostbusters

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or The Issue of Female Representation in Film I recently saw the new Ghostbusters (2016) film and I loved it. I loved seeing four different women working together for the same cause. I… Continue reading

Tabletop Tuesday: ‘Kill Doctor Lucky’

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As previously mentioned, I was a fan of ‘Cluedo’ (known as ‘Clue’ in the USA) as a child, later moving on to ‘Mystery Express‘ as a more complex and engaging take on the… Continue reading