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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Podcast Roundtable Discussion

Tim Combatti, Liam McCartney, and Corey Plante had a roundtable discussion on the latest movie installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Listen to their recorded podcast below! **SPOILER WARNING** If you haven’t seen the movie yet, you might want to wait until after you have to give this thing a listen.…
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“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Review

What do you do when everything you know, everything you believe in, starts to crumble? That’s what Captain America: The Winter Soldier addresses. It blurs the lines drawn by good and evil to a point where you can’t see which side is which. This movie does a great job of drawing in the audience with action,…
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Wish-Fulfillments Dashed: The One Positive Reaction to the Finale of “How I Met Your Mother”

I’ve had an idea in mind that’s been churning for quite some time now, one that’s really come to light with all of the fiery reactions to the How I Met Your Mother finale. It has everything to do with what we expect from the fictional stories we indulge in, and it has quite a…
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“Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor” Trailer Reveal

Pretty cool, eh? Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is a multi-platform, open-world action-adventure video game set in the beloved realm of Middle-earth, better known as the land of Hobbits and other creatures in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. It’s set to release on October 7, 2014 to every single currently active gaming system,…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “Somebody Up There Likes Me” (2012)

How much of a story can you tell, when there isn’t much to tell? Enough. Max Youngman (Keith Poulson) is an awkward man. Over the course of his life, he aloofly stumbles in and out of love with the equally awkward Lyla (Jess Weixler). With his “best friend” Sal (Nick Offerman) guiding him, what could…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “Iron Sky”

If you don’t learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. In 2018, the President of the United States decides to begin sending new missions to the moon, in order to help her achieve re-election. Upon landing on the far side of the moon, African-American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby) is surprisingly captured by…
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A Song of Smoke, Mirrors, and Fire: “Pompeii” Movie Review

From the maker of the Resident Evil movie franchise comes a new movie about an old story, focused with a romantic twist. Pompeii will burn, and so will the hearts of two young lovers. Pompeii strives to tell the story of the remote, small Italian city located at the base of an active volcano right…
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“Godzilla” Trailer

Holy crap, Godzilla is big. Check out the latest trailer for Gareth Edward’s reboot of Godzilla. I’m pretty in the dark on this one, so I don’t have much insight here. The trailer is certainly impressive. The scale is immense. The monster, what we see of him, is staggering. I hope the human element keeps…
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Ric’s Netflix Picks: “The Giant Mechanical Man”

How do you create a painting? One brushstroke at a time. After losing her job and getting evicted from her apartment, Janice (Jenna Fischer), a young 30-something having difficulty navigating the waters of adulthood, moves into her sister’s home. Feeling pressure from her sister (Malin Åkerman) to grow up, Janice begins to date Doug (Topher Grace),…
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“Guardians of the Galaxy” Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTZ2Tp9yXyM The first trailer for Marvel’s gamble Guardians of the Galaxy just premiered on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Guardians is one of my most anticipated movies of 2014 because it sounds bananas. Also because it stars Chris Pratt. Mostly because it sounds bananas, though. The trailer is a showcase for the film’s sense of humor more than the…
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