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Entries from April 2007

Theatrical Review: Next

April 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Chris Johnson is a mentalist who performs in Las Vegas under the name of Frank Cadillac… the thing is, his power is for real: Johnson can see into the future for up to a 2-minute period, but even by doing that, he virtually changes the future every time he does it. He’s haunted [...]

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FBSD Episode 34: Serenity

April 26th, 2007 · 10 Comments

Hi Sara, Elizabeth, Shane, Jon, and Ryu!We go through the weekend past, both time spent at ShowMeCon/Anime St. Louis and the weekend’s box office numbers. (www.boxofficemojo.com)
There is one bit of audio buzz at about the 27 minute mark… The Gods of THX hath smacked down my microphone. You’ll see why…
We review and then dig [...]

 
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DVD Review: Children of Men

April 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

It struck me suddenly, that in movies today, themes can be somewhat obscure. You can look for angles, bias, and all that, but it seems less frequently that you find a film with an untarnished theme.
That is what drew me into this movie.
From the beginning to the end, themes of hope, despair, misery, and grief [...]

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Theatrical Review: Hot Fuzz

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Nicholas Angel is the top of the line on the London police force (excuse me, it should now be referred to as service- force implies to much of a physical threat), he’s so good at his job that he’s making the rest of the service look bad and as such he gets a promotion to [...]

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Theatrical Review: Vacancy

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

David and Amy Fox are a married couple suffering some problems as the result of the death of their son. They’re on a road trip to one last family event before they make their divorce final and due to a back-up on the interstate, they decide to take some side roads to get to [...]

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FBSD Episode 33: The Good Shepherd

April 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

This one is late, but… I’ve got two very good reasons.
Reason #1: This is a LONG episode. We clock in at over 82 minutes. We didn’t plan on it going long, but we were on a good trip and we followed it through. Amazingly enough, we didn’t even get tangential… much.
Reason [...]

 
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Theatrical Review: TMNT

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Here is a movie that needs little introduction. Based on the 1984 graphic novel and subsequent movie sequels and cartoon shows, this movie hit an already eager viewing audience.
It’s been fourteen years since the release of the last film, and this one doesn’t waste much time getting right back into it. After a somewhat inconsequential [...]

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DVD Review: Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls

April 13th, 2007 · No Comments

One of the things that I’m hoping to do with these reviews for The Fanboy Smackdown, is basically talk about some movies that don’t generally get a lot of conversation about them, some of the more cult-y type of stuff, some foreign way out there things (like movies from Takashi Miike or Peter Greenaway), some [...]

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FBSD Episode 32: TMNT

April 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

File’s fixed! There are a few clicks that are artifacts from recording, those are on the source files, but this a much cleaner file than that last one!
We start this show with our new format.
First we discuss the box office surprises this week, at least some people seemed surprised by Grindhouse opening at #4.
We [...]

 
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Theatrical Review: Grindhouse

April 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Grindhouse literally refers to a certain type of movie, primarily from the late 50s, 60s, 70s and very early 80s that was usually some sort of low budget exploitation film of some sort like Horror, Car Action, Hot Women (sometimes in prison), Sci-Fi, Spaghetti Western or Martial Arts that was literally “ground” out by production [...]

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To the left, to the left…

April 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

Yep, we added a few sites to the left.  We also added a calendar of sorts.  Under the “Upcoming Episodes” Category, you’ll see a listing of the next two to four shows we are planning.  Now, you know that the film mentioned might only be a jumping off point to a larger discussion, but you [...]

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Rest in Peace, Mason Rocket.

April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m going to have to go back on what I said in our last episode, there will be no new show this week.
We received news yesterday, April 1st, 2007 that Joe Murphy, our friend, fellow podcaster and ‘brother’ in the FarPoint Media family, has fought his battle with leiomyosarcoma carcinoma to its finish. We joining [...]

 
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Ancestor is #1!

April 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Congratulations to Scott Sigler. On April 1, 2007, Ancestor reached #1 on the Science Fiction and Fantasy listing at Amazon and #7 on Amazon’s ranking overall. This is an incredible achievement, well done, Scott!

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