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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: Whedon's Dollhouse Is Officially A Failure

         SPOILER ALERT!I am a huge Whedon apologist. I even defend Season Six of Buffy, because I see its purp...

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Television Collision: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Why Is Ringer No Fun at All?

  Don’t act surprised, you knew it was coming, my inevitable review of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new show Ringer. As a Whedonite and Buffy-holic, ...

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Rebuttal: What "Girls" Gets Right

  Last week CC2K Book Editor Beth Woodward wrote about all the things she thought HBO’s Girls got wrong. This week, TV Editor Phoebe Raven respo...

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Television Collision: Why the Buffy Reboot Is Already A Success

It's been a little over a week since news of a Buffy reboot for the big screen blew up any and all pop-culture websites, Twitter and other social netw...

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Comics Stories

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The Brawny Classical Grandeur of Wonder Woman

Source: New York Times I guess it was bound to happen: Wonder Woman got a makeover. The New York Times reports that in issue 600 of the long-running s...

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Comeback #1

  1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts! Great Scott!!! Back to the Future jokes aside, Ed Brisson and Michael Walsh have an all-new kind of time trave...

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Character Sketches #3: Allen the Alien - Confused Champion Evaluation Offic

From now until eternity, every Monday, the Comics gurus of CC2K will select one obscure character from one of the world of comic's multiple univers...

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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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Patrick Kelly's Top 10 Albums of 2007

These are my favorite albums from 2007. These are not the best albums of 2007. I’m not a music critic and therefore, do not have the ability ...

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Concert Review: The Rakes

Straight out of London, The Rakes brought their in-your-face post-punk style to the tiny Troubadour in West Hollywood on April Fool’s day. The...

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Great Cynics: Don't Need Much

The London based Cynics have recently become the Great Cynics just ahead of the release of their releasing their full-length debut, Don’t Need Mu...

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Joy Division and a PBR: The Hipster's Christmas Playlist

Yeah, I know. Christmas is nothing more than the glorification of consumerist greed. I get it. You wear red as a statement not as an homage to bea...

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Script Reviews

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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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Paul W. S. Anderson's Castlevania

There is a disconcerting disconnect between the potential for video games to be adapted into quality films and reality.  On the one side of this gulf ...

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Script Review: Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

This SPOILER-FILLED review goes down the rabbit hole of Tim Burton's new adaptation. Tim Burton doesn’t exactly have the best track record with remak...

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Do I Feel … Enthusiasm … for National Treasure 2?

Somewhere in life I was negligently exposed to the terrible genius that is the B-movie.  You know the type.  It’s the one where a...

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Column: Future Fragments

Future Fragments: Pop Academy

I've just returned from a weekend in San Antonio, Texas for the Pop Culture Association's national conference. Pop culture’s shown a lot of love for...

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Future Fragments: Dancing with the Activists?

Turn on “Dancing with the Stars” on a typical night, and you’ll see the bodies of a man and a woman gyrating together, her skirt flying, hair braided ...

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Future Fragments: Glee, YouTube and Fame

The third season of Glee is underway, and while its first two episodes have contained an interesting mix of incoherent narrative and Broadway, there’s...

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Future Fragments: Ghosts of Superheroes Past

We live in an era of great superhero movies. Seriously, we're spoiled. Think about it: it used to be the best superhero fix you could look forward to ...

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