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Movie Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Image via screencapped.net Every time Marvel and Disney release a new film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe I ask a couple questions. Will this be the bad one? Will this movie be the one that audiences...
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Pyro’s Screening Room: Episode 23 – The Winter Spoiler
Image via sohohousewh.com Pyro’s Screening Room is back and this time we’re spoiling everything. Okay, not EVERYTHING–just Captain America: The Winter Soldier and the first two episodes of the fourth...
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Television Review: 24 Live Another Day – Premier [Spoilers]
Image via forbes.com There was a time when 24–the pioneering real-time Fox drama–was absolutely one of my favorite shows on television. It had Kiefer Sutherland. It had that bad ass real-time concept...
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Movie Review: Office Ninja
image via theofficeninjamovie.com I’m pretty sure everybody has that friend. The one into all the rad ninja stuff. Hell, if you grew up in the ’90s with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, maybe you’re...
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Pyro’s Screening Room opens it’s doors again and this time we talking about Amazing Spider-Man 2! Well … Jim is talking about Amazing Spider-Man 2 because Billy can’t be bothered to see it after he...
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Let’s Talk About Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Image via hitfix.com I won’t sugar coat it: Agents of SHIELD’s first season was…well…kinda shit. Hey, I said I wasn’t sugar coating. It was boring, lifeless, and full of that special tedium that first...
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Shrödinger’s Star Wars Hype
Image via geekbinge.com Everywhere I turn I see nothing but unbridled excitement for Star Wars Episode VII: Attack of the Unknown Subtitle. The expectations just keep getting higher and higher with...
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Video Game Review: Child of Light
The recently released Child of Light is quite the oddity. Developed using the UbiArt Framework, most notable for Rayman Origins and Rayman Legends, we knew that Child of Light would be something...
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Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Image via hitfix.com The X-Men movies will always have a place in superhero cinematic history. By being the first really good superhero movies of our generation (I’d like to make the blanket statement...
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TV Review: The 100 [SPOILERS]
Image via zap2it.com Between Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Supernatural (once I get caught up again), and Arrow, the CW has become just about my go to network at this point. They are even bringing my...
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TV Review: Veep – Seasons 1-3
Image via HBO.com Summer is a great time of year: World Cups, baseball, no school, good weather, and fireworks. For me, it’s also the time of year when I’m not watching 30+ shows every week. Thanks to...
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Movie Review: 22 Jump Street
Image via forbes.com Comedy is difficult, not to mention subjective, and sequelizing a comedy is downright perilous. Think of your favorite comedies, now think about how many sequels to those comedies...
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Pyro’s Screening Room: Episode 25 – The Uncomfortable Chat
Image via sohohousewh.com We’re back in Pyro’s Screening Room with a fairly long discussion of the final two episodes of Game of Thrones fourth season. We follow that up with a somber discussion about...
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Movie Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Image via fansided.com Planet of the Apes is marked by a couple of things. First and foremost it’s probably most well known for its laughably dated ape costumes. I’m not sure that the ape masks from...
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TV Review: 24: Live Another Day Finale [Spoilers]
Image via 24spoilers.com 24: Live Another Day concluded not with a bang–well, that’s not exactly true, there were several bangs and plenty of guns–but with a pathetic whimper. The latest (and last?)...
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Movie Review: Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
Image via Cinemassacre.com Passion is almost always a requirement for some piece of art (film, television, writing, whatever) to be successful. I don’t mean financially successful–the annals of history...
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Hey, Listen! Let’s Talk About That Episode of Doctor Who
Image via residententertainment.com Let’s talk a bit about Doctor Who and the episode Listen. This isn’t going to be a review–although if I were reviewing it I would say it was one of the best episodes...
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Gotham Isn’t Lighting My World On Fire
Image via IMDb Gotham Babies do not make our dreams come true. I’ve been thinking about Gotham and how I feel about the show for the last two weeks and I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just not a...
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Robot Television Roundup – Fall 2014 Edition
Robot Television Roundup is back with some quick thoughts on Fall TV. Instead of our usual format of weekly check-ins, I’ll be giving you some quick thoughts of several new and returning television...
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The Walking Dead Season Five is Off to a Great Start
Image via nextprojection.com The Walking Dead is a show that I’ve got a serious love/hate relationship with. I’ve read the comic book for close to a decade, so I’ve got a pretty good familiarity with...
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Robot Television Roundup: Fall Finale 2014 Edition
With some major TV series ending their runs, and many others taking a break following their fall finales, Robot Television Roundup takes a look back at the last couple of months of TV. The Newsroom...
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Television Review: Marvel’s Agent Carter
Image via screenrant.com It took some time, but Marvel’s Agent’s of S.H.I.E.L.D. slowly became one of my favorite shows on television. Not because it’s high art, but because it became really fun. It...
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Parks and Recreation’s Final Season Brings Laughs And Concerns
Image via Wired Parks and Recreation is a show that I initially loathed. I wasn’t a fan of the American version of The Office, and so a pseudo-spin off was not something that ever thrilled me. But, I...
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TV Review: Better Call Saul
Image via nypost.com The difficulty in spinning off a beloved television series is that beloved TV series’ are usually beloved for a reason. It’s the reason why spin-offs are sought after by executives...
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Community’s Improbable Return to Screens is Complete
Image via IGN Community is back for its sixth season on a new night and time and with a new home. That is, Yahoo Screen, Tuesday nights–er, mornings at 12:01 AM. Yes, Community, the constantly...
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Movie Review: Furious 7
Image via forbes.com Furious 7 is a dumb, dumb, dumb movie. I know, you’re probably saying to yourself, “duh.” Yeah, it’s true, all of the Fast and the Furious movies (and their related nonsense...
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Confused About The X-Files? We’ve Got You Covered
Image via brooksykes.tumblr.com If you’re excited for the upcoming relaunch of the X-Files, you might be confused as to where to start with the series. It’s nine seasons and more than 200 episodes of...
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Hand of Fate Review
Brought to the world by Defiant Development, Hand of Fate blends together seemingly disparate elements into a wonderfully presented package. The core gameplay loop merges third person action combat...
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Movie Review: The Avengers: Age of Ultron
image via wegothiscovered.com Avengers: Age of Ultron is a movie with many moving parts. A flick with tremendous hype heaped upon it. A movie that could simply never live up to the intense expectations...
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Something’s Wrong with Supernatural this Season [Spoilers]
image via sweatpantsandcoffee.com Supernatural is a show that I have a complicated history with. Despite the fact that it was shepherded to television with the aid of many X-Files vets, I avoided it...
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Movie Review: Inside Out
Image via Techcrunch.com There’s an image floating around on the net that cheekily breaks down Pixar’s ouevre into simplistic descriptors like “What if toys had feelings?” or “what if monsters had...
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Movie Review: Tomorrowland
Image via Hitfix The word Tomorrowland invokes a lot of feelings in my mind. If you’ve read any of my reviews here on GFBR you might be aware that I’m a bit of a Disney nut and just the idea of...
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Movie Review: Terminator: Genisys [Spoilers]
Image via wired.com Look. I don’t want to be THAT guy. You know the one–the dude who’s always complaining about how Hollywood is endlessly rebooting and changing the films and franchises that we hold...
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Movie Review: Ted 2
Image via Business Insider Ted was not a great film. It wasn’t super funny, and it had some major issues (like turning into a weird parody of The Fan in the last 45 minutes). But. I chalked my problems...
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TV Review: Fear The Walking Dead Premiere
Image via cheatsheet.com When the first season of the Walking Dead premiered back in 2010 I remarked to some of my co-workers that I thought the show was better than the comic book that birthed it....
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Movie Review: Spy
Image via rollingstone.com Spy is kind of a weird movie. I decided to check it out recently on home video for a couple of reasons. One, I figured it would be the kind of non-threatening entertainment...
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Movie Review: The Martian
Image via Newsweek.com Ridley Scott is a legend. But, a legend with a fair share of black marks on his resume. Prometheus went a long way towards tarnishing Scott’s legacy in my eyes. Prometheus is...
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TV Review: Netflix’s W/ Bob and David
Image via www.fastcocreate.com I can remember the first time I saw Mr. Show with Bob and David, a crazy hilarious sketch comedy show starring Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. During high school, my...
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Some Thoughts About Netflix’s Jessica Jones
Image via Hitfix I have no formal knowledge of Jessica Jones past some bits of trivia—I was always more of an X-Men Marvel fan. But after the tremendous first season of Daredevil that Marvel Studios...
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Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Image via adweek.com I like Star Wars, and I’m guessing you like Star Wars, too. It’s not exactly a controversial opinion, what with Star Wars: the Force Awakens breaking box office records left and...
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Movie Review: Creed
Image via slashfilm.com Whenever someone talks about sports films a comparison to Rocky inevitably is made. Call it the Godwin’s Law of sports films (The Stallion Law?), within any discussion you’re...
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Oscar Nominee Nominee Double Header: Brooklyn/Mad Max
Image via comicbookresources.com For this “review” I decided to lump together two Oscar nominated films that purport to be about strong female leads: Brooklyn and Mad Max: Fury Road. Full disclosure, I...
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Television Review: The X-Files Season 10 Episodes 1-3
Image via The Independent The X-Files is important to me for a number of reasons: it was the first fandom that I really, REALLY got into obsessively, it was the thing that introduced me to spoiler...
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Movie Review:10 Cloverfield Lane
Image via Collider Sometimes J.J. Abrams gets an idea and sticks to it come hell or high water like his use of lens flare in his movies. Like all film techniques moderation is probably the best policy,...
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Sequels to ’90s Kids Movies We’d Like to See
Image via Consequenceofsound.net I’m not sure if you’re aware, but ’90s nostalgia is here in a big way. With all of the best properties of the ’90s being revived for television or film reboots it was...
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Movie Review: The Jungle Book
Image via Screenrant.com Anybody who knows me, knows that I’m pretty cynical when it comes to visual effects in modern film. Too many movies these days fall prey to a syndrome I like to call CGI Barf....
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Movie Review: Keanu
Image via Fandango.com Key and Peele are ascendant. Though their Comedy Central show has ended, it’s clear that the comedy duo have long careers ahead of them. Don’t believe me? Turn on any random...
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Supernatural Caps Lame Season With Tremendous Conclusion
Image via 411mania.com Supernatural finished its eleventh season with a bang—though ironically no actual bangs occurred during the finale. In a season that has been bogged down with a boring Big Bad...
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Movie Review: Finding Dory
Pixar hasn’t had a spotless track record with sequels. It’s not that the venerable animation studio can’t make a tremendous sequel—Toy Story 3 might just be the best movie in the franchise—but, when...
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Movie Review: The Secret Life of Pets
Image via Screen Rant With a name like The Secret Life of Pets, you might expect a story that…I dunno…tells about the secret life of some pets. What I found instead was a marginally funny, very cute...
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