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Album Reviews :: Swingin' Utters :: Go Deep :: The Weeds :: Point of View

Swingin’ Utters :: Poorly Formed out now on Fat Wreck Chords I am not sure why, but I never really got into S...

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NYCC'12: VENTURE BROS!

Your favorite Jonny Quest wanna bes are back! Hank and Dean are gearing up for season 5 airing on Cartoon Netw...

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Most Anticipated Books for the Rest of 2013

With 2013 almost halfway over, I’d like to take some time to talk about the book releases I’m most looking for...

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Album Review :: Let It Go :: Modern Atlas

Let It Go :: Modern Atlas out now on Say-10 Records Holy shit I was grabbed from the first note of this recor...

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Album Review :: Restorations :: LP2

Restorations :: LP2 is out now on SideOneDummy From the first chord of LP2 you are transported to a different...

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Fanboy Comics Review: The Way, Way Back

Fanboy Comics' Ellen Tremiti reviews one of the films from Sundance 2013. The Way, Way, Back stars Liam Jam...

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CC2K’s Comics on the Horizon: May 9, 2013

Every so often a new comic series is announced months or a year in advance. If you’re not on top of your comic...

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Wolf Hall: Today's War and Peace

Our culture loves a good player. From Casanova to Bruce Wayne, Cherie to Carrie Bradshaw, we've all spent our ...

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Album Review :: Transit :: Young New England

Transit :: Young New England out now on Rise Records  I was never a huge Transit fan but I am a Mis...

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Album Review :: Dikembe / Hightide Hotel / Jet Set Sail / Monument :: Split

  Dikembe / Hightide Hotel / Jet Set Sail / Monument :: Split out now on Count Your Lucky Stars I sat o...

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'The Sapphires' Shines Bright With a Rocking Soundtrack

  I’m a sucker for sentimental 1960s-tinged musicals, so it should be no surprise that I adored The Sapp...

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Fanboy Comics Review: Pain and Gain

Fanboy Comics' Chris Spicer reviews the new film directed by Michael Bay. I’ve always wanted to meet Michael ...

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FREE COMIC BOOK DAY : SAT, MAY 4TH

Every year the comic book industry puts on the even known as Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) on the first Saturday ...

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Conan the Barbarian

Lance Carmichael examines how John Milius and Arnold Schwarzenegger conquered the proto-fascist 80s. Has ther...

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The Symptoms of Literary Sexism

For a long time, I’ve had this feeling that women were getting the short end of the stick in literature. ...

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Television Collision

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Television Collision: Necessary Roughness Is Unnecessarily Careless

For quite some time the cable network USA has been cranking out reliable summer shows shot in bright colors to brighten up our sun-filled days. From B...

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Television Collision: House’s One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

In honor of House's final episode (which aired last night), we're revisiting Phoebe Raven's 2011 column dissecting the series. Sound off below: wh...

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Television Collision: The Cape - Campy or Crappy?

Do you sometimes feel I am too snooty in my choices of TV shows to cover and rave about? Do you feel I indulge my “inner fan girl“ too seldom and neve...

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Television Collision: ABC Opens Up The Gates

When I tuned into the pilot episode of The Gates on ABC, I didn’t know anything about what I was about to watch. I hadn’t heard a single p...

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Comics Stories

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FanBoy Comics: SOMETHING ANIMAL review

Fanboy Comics first graphic novel: Something Animal is an intense psychological look into a man's vampiric metamorphosis. This book is dark. The subje...

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The Amazing Spider-Man: The Lizard Revealed!

The Internet is a great place for spoilers. Just these past years we've seen leaked versions of Thor, Captain America, and Spider-Man's new NBA basket...

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The Weekly Comics Wrap-up: March 5th, 2008

The time is coming. Although due to global warming we can no longer be certain that the sun will rise and fall every day, one thing we can always coun...

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The Weekly Comics Wrap-up: Dec. 27, 2007

The world of comics is complicated, with multiple companies (and universes) to keep track of. Luckily, CC2K has Joey Esposito, our resident expert on...

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Music Roundup

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My Dark Twisted Teenage Tunes: The Wall

  Like any dapper dandy who listens to a ton of country music, my all-time favorite band is Pink Floyd. Hell, I even named my cat after the band...

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Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Last year, a Youtube.com documentary on Modest Mouse’s early career circulated that saw Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch laud the band almo...

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Betty Wright and the Roots

So you've got a 70's soul legend and the greatest live hip hop act around. What do you do, hotshot? What do you do? Well, naturally you combine the tw...

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Jeff Bridges by Jeff Bridges

Well, you know Eddie Murphy’s girl wanted to party all the time and you’ve seen all them White Actors mutilating the blues.  You don’t even have to be...

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Script Reviews

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Iron Man vs. The War on Terror: The Way it Should Be!

I'm going to lay it all out for you - internet trolls are ruining comic book films. "How so?" you ask. Take Superman Returns. Here we ...

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Script Review: Alien Planet - A Proposed Final Chapter to the Alien Franchise

One of the things I love about writing for CC2K is that I've had the opportunity to read scripts for movies.  Some are for projects that are only begi...

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Script Review: Finding Nemo 2

Let’s get the obvious jokes out of the way so you won’t have to suffer through 'em later. Finding Nemo 2 should be lost. No one should look for Find...

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Script Review: Lincoln

The big-budget biopic eschews nuance in favor of myth. I suppose that I know as much about Abraham Lincoln as the next American.  I know him by ...

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Column: Future Fragments

Future Fragments: A Few of My Favorite Things from NYCC

The buzz from NYCC hasn’t died down yet, as many of us wish we could spend every weekend equally surrounded by pop-culture icons imagined and real and...

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Future Fragments: Star Wars Bluray and the Death of the Original

With the Star Wars saga finally hitting bluray this week, there are a number of voices crying out—and, if the set's 2 star rating on Amazon is any tes...

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Future Fragments: Pottermore and the Future of eBooks

Harry Potter is well known to be the boy who lived--but the real story these days is how he spawned that franchise that couldn't die. For Harry Potter...

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Future Fragments: Love and Robots From Teddy Ruxpin to Furby

Robot & Frank may not have made it to a widespread release, but it is perhaps the ultimate buddy comedy of the future. The premise -- a senior cit...

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