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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 18, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 6 of 7)

Previously: After an apparent year of absolutely nothing happening in the lives of our heroes, they all got put to work by the military, much to the dismay of Sue and her dad. Meanwhile, Reed was on the run in Central America, where despite his crafty brownface disguise, the government was able to track him down and use Ben to apprehend him.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 16, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Project Daedalus”

Previously: Pike and Vyler’s shuttle got hit by a squid-like probe from the future that downloaded all of Discovery’s data. Lt. Airiam, the robot-like bridge officer, got infected with nefarious programming which was symbolized by three red lights flashing in…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 13, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Previously: Four morons went to an alternate dimension but only three came back. The survivors found themselves changed in various disturbing ways, and immediately got recruited by the government to become freakish...

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Mar 11, 2019

Battle of the Zombie Comedies: Shaun of the Dead vs. Night of the Living Dorks

As the decades have passed, there have been spoof movies in pretty much every genre imaginable, from police dramas (The Naked Gun) to teen comedies (Not Another Teen Movie). The legendary Mel Brooks alone has made…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 8, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “If Memory Serves”

Previously: Well, this is different; this week, the “previously on” clips all come from “The Cage”, the original Star Trek pilot. I’m going out on a limb and guessing this is the first time in Star Trek history that the…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Mar 7, 2019

The Thing boxes for the fate of the planet in Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7

Back in the day, both Marvel and DC Comics had what were known as team-up books. DC’s books were The Brave and the Bold which starred Batman (which was discontinued to make way for Batman & the Outsiders), and…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 6, 2019

Hit or Bomb? March 2019 movie predictions

After two solid months of “how in the hell did this not go direct to streaming?” releases, 2019 finally gets a few potentially huge blockbusters. No movie is a guaranteed success, of course, which is why we’re here to determine…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 4, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Previously: After a successful teleportation attempt involving a cartoon monkey, the best and brightest minds of the Baxter Institute (plus Ben Grimm) got drunk off a bottle of vanilla extract, and then decided on the spur of the moment to…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 3, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Light and Shadows”

Previously: For the first time since the pilot, there are no “previously on” clips this episode, and instead Burnham’s obligatory voiceover catches us up on what we missed: Saru saw the Red Angel, it was wearing an “exosuit made of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 27, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 3 of 7)

Previously: Reed Richards got to attend/work for the Baxter Institute, a internationally renowned think tank founded on the inventions of high school students. Reed was tasked with building a teleportation machine along with three other young antisocial malcontents...

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· by Jordon Davis · Feb 26, 2019

Top 5 insane nerd arguments (settled by governments)

Nerds. They kick ass. Also, in that one movie, they committed a disturbingly high number of sex crimes. But above all, they like to argue with each other. They absolutely love it. They love it the way Robert Carradine and…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 25, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “The Sound of Thunder”

Previously: Section 31 was on the hunt for Spock, who had a psychic connection to the mysterious signals across the galaxy which presage the arrival of the Red Angel. Dr. Culber was killed, but then resurrected in the mycelial network.…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Feb 21, 2019

Why The Last Jedi gives me (yes!) hope for Episode IX

As the Christmas release date for the next Star Wars movie approaches, and with filming now reportedly completed, the anticipation and the backlash that have both become synonymous with the franchise since the release of the prequel trilogy remain as…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 19, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Previously: Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were young kids who, despite Reed’s best efforts, grew up to be teenagers. Reed finally got someone to take notice of his teleportation machine, which turned out to actually be a portal into another dimension, because this is the version of the Fantastic Four where nobody goes into space or gets bombarded by cosmic rays....

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 18, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Saints of Imperfection”

Previously: Mirror Georgiou recruited Voq/Tyler AKA Vyler into Section 31. Lt. Spock was wanted for the murder of his doctors. Tilly started to see the ghost of her junior high classmate May, who turned out to be a “multidimensional fungal…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2019

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 1 of 7)

In 2015, 20th Century Fox achieved a remarkable feat: At a time when comic book movies and Marvel superheroes in particular were seen as a license to print money, they still managed to make a massive bomb out of their reboot of Marvel’s Fantastic Four. Even more remarkably...

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 11, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “An Obol for Charon”

Previously: Discovery was out to track down the source of “seven signals” that seem to foretell appearances of the Red Angel. Spock knew about the signals months before they were detected, which in some way led to him voluntarily committing…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 8, 2019

The 30 most popular posts of 2018

It’s time once again to revisit this website’s most popular posts from the previous year, and it looks like 2018 was a time when people really, really wanted to read about 1) movie predictions, and 2) Suicide Squad. Note:…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Feb 6, 2019

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Like the Alien series, the first two entries in the Terminator series are embraced as classic movies. The 1984 original was a nerve-jolting thriller whose success is all the more remarkable when you consider that its writer-director, James Cameron, only…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 4, 2019

Star Trek: Discovery “Point of Light”

Previously: Michael Burnham fell in love for the very first time with Lt. Ash Tyler, a man who—whoops—turned out to be a surgically-altered Klingon sleeper agent better known as Voq the Torchbearer. Together with his Klingon lover L’Rell,…

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Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 6 of 7)

Star Trek: Discovery “Project Daedalus”

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 5 of 7)

Battle of the Zombie Comedies: Shaun of the Dead vs. Night of the Living Dorks

Star Trek: Discovery “If Memory Serves”

The Thing boxes for the fate of the planet in Marvel Two-in-One Annual #7

Hit or Bomb? March 2019 movie predictions

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 4 of 7)

Star Trek: Discovery “Light and Shadows”

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 3 of 7)

Top 5 insane nerd arguments (settled by governments)

Star Trek: Discovery “The Sound of Thunder”

Why The Last Jedi gives me (yes!) hope for Episode IX

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 2 of 7)

Star Trek: Discovery “Saints of Imperfection”

Fantastic Four (2015), a recap (part 1 of 7)

Star Trek: Discovery “An Obol for Charon”

The 30 most popular posts of 2018

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Star Trek: Discovery “Point of Light”

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