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Episode 116 - Star Trek Into Darkness Review!

March 23, 2019

Our long-running feature series of reviewing every film in the Muppets and Star Trek franchises is almost complete! This edition: Star Trek Into Darkness! What’s the deal with John Harrison? What’s the deal with the casting? Is this still Star Trek? Is this real life?!

We also have lots of Disney/FOX merger news, a new Dumb Dungeons and Dragons character creation, Radical Recommends, and Trailer Reviews of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Brightburn, and Stranger Things Season 3!

Intro music provided with permission by the awesome Jimmy Hinson of Big Giant Circles. Find him Bandcamp or iTunes!


In Trailer Reviews, Radical Recommends, Podcast, Nerdy News, Dungeons and Dragons, Film Review, Star Trek Tags star trek, star trek into darkness, jj abrams, khan, brightburn, stranger things, stranger things season 2, don quixote, terry gilliam, dungeons and dragons
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Episode 115 - Captain Marvel!

March 5, 2019

We hope you’re as excited as we are to see the MCU’s upcoming Captain Marvel !!! Coming out this Friday, March 8th in theaters everywhere! So, for this episode, we take you through the history of the character, and the name “Captain Marvel” itself. It’s had a long history of changing companies, and changing the characters that used that name! So join us for all the info you need before you jump in the theater this weekend.

But that’s not all! We also cover tons of movie news, talk about other famous female superheroes, give some Radical Recommends, and review trailers for the upcoming Dark Phoenix and the Elton John bio-pic, Rocketman.

Intro music provided with permission by the awesome Jimmy Hinson of Big Giant Circles. Find him Bandcamp or iTunes!


In Trailer Reviews, Radical Recommends, Podcast, Nerdy News, Deep Dive Tags captain marvel, mcu, marvel, marvel cinematic universe, dark pheonix, rocketman, elton john, behind the curve
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Episode 114 - CCC - Gamer VS Surrogates

February 26, 2019

The triumphant return of Copy Cat Cinema!!! This episode we throw two half-cocked 2009 sci-fi action flicks against each other: Gamer VS Surrogates! So much angst and color filters…you won’t want to miss it!

For Nerdy News we have more Dune casting news! Plus, another nerdy celeb falls from grace with the #MeToo movement. We’re happy the scumbag has been outed but sad because of all the things he was in that we enjoyed are now tainted! Find out who it is by listening to the podcast!

Steve tackles another Dunegons and Dragon character creation, we have video game music game show, random robot facts you may not know, Radical Recommends, and Trailer Reviews of Ma and Tolkien.

Intro music provided with permission by the awesome Jimmy Hinson of Big Giant Circles. Find him Bandcamp or iTunes!


In Trailer Reviews, Radical Recommends, Podcast, Nerdy News, Dungeons and Dragons, Copy Cat Cinema, Film Review Tags gamer, ma, surrogates, copy cat cinema, tolkien, lord of the rings
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Episode 113 - Top 50 Horror Films of All Time?

February 7, 2019

This week we take Film Reject’s list of the top 50 horror films of all time and do a rundown of each film, seeing if we agree with their choices along the way. For the most part, we think they did pretty well! Do you agree with our choices? Plus it’s just a great recap of all the great horror films we’ve seen over the years.

For Nerdy News we have the revelation that the musical Rent sucks, the death of Mr. Fudderman, and some exciting Marvel Cinematic Universe news.

Then ride along with us for some Would You Rather, Radical Recommends, and Trailer Reviews of the surreal horror flick, Braid and the enigmatic upcoming film, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot. And… Doc Brown gets the Dungeons and Dragons character creation treatment he always deserved!

Intro music provided with permission by the awesome Jimmy Hinson of Big Giant Circles. Find him Bandcamp or iTunes!


In Trailer Reviews, Radical Recommends, Podcast, Nerdy News, Would You Rather, Dungeons and Dragons Tags horror, horror films, horror movies, film rejects, jason, freedy, freddy, michael myers, ash, evil dead, friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street, halloween, marvel, marvel cinematic universe, mcu, braid, bigfoot
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Episode 112 - The Muppets! (2011)

January 23, 2019

Join us as we near the end of our ongoing series of reviewing every film from the Star Trek and Muppet film franchises. This edition: 2011’s The Muppets! It’s a fun romp and actually has both Jarman and Steve saying nice things about it.

Then for Nerdy News we have celebrity deaths, and those that we THOUGHT were dead, as well as some recent UFO news that will leave you scratching your head.

Jarman tries to stump Steve with some Muppet trivia, we throw out some Radical Recommends, and Trailer Reviews of John Wick 3 and Spiderman: Far From Home!

Intro music provided with permission by the awesome Jimmy Hinson of Big Giant Circles. Find him Bandcamp or iTunes!


In Dungeons and Dragons, Film Review, Muppets, Nerdy News, Podcast, Radical Recommends, Trailer Reviews Tags the muppets, spiderman, spider-man, spiderman far from home, john wick, john wick 3, ufos, dnd, dungeons and dragons, future man
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