Ninja Turtle Podcast episode 1

Origins – Ninja Turtle Talk Live – ep 1

Raise a slice of pizza to the very first installment of the Ninja Turtle Talk Live podcast! In this episode, Shaun and Tyler discuss the humble beginnings of their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fandom and outline what listeners can expect in future episodes. Ninja Turtle Talk Live will focus on all aspects of the franchise, […]

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Baseball Movies for a 90s Kid

  By Tyler Wilson Originally published in Coeur Voice – April 2018 Time to blast John Fogerty’s “Centerfield” from your tiny smartphone speaker, because the Major League Baseball season is here again. While most of the country becomes enthralled by the NCAA basketball tournament, baseball fanatics can barely wait for the 162-game, six-month season to

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Old Millennial Cage Match - The Rock vs Vin Diesel

Cage Match: Diesel versus The Rock

The country’s most bitter rivalry escalated during the production of a little film called “The Fate of the Furious,” the 18th entry (probably) in the muscle-car-manly-muscles franchise. It’s in theaters today, and stars Vin Diesel and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson have been noticeably separated on the film’s massive publicity tour. The beef: Johnson got tired

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Old Millennial Cage Match Oblivion vs Wall-E

Cage Match! Cleaning up Earth Edition

Tom Cruise’s sci-fi adventure, “Oblivion,” arrives on home video this week, and its story similarities to Pixar’s “WALL-E” has triggered another installment of America’s third favorite Coeur d’Alene Press recurring entertainment feature – Cage Match! The protagonists of both “Oblivion” and “WALL-E” are tasked with cleaning up the mess left by apocalyptic calamities. In “WALL-E,”

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Consistency derails ‘Identity Thief’

The threat of identity theft is a relatable concern. Being chased by hillbilly bounty hunters and violent criminal organizations is considerably less likely. That’s the kind of antics Jason Bateman must face in “Identity Thief,” a broad and overfamiliar comedy that follows the outline of “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.” Bateman does what he does best

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Affleck and Oscars – The Art of the Campaign

The big lesson of this year’s awards season: Don’t snub Ben Affleck. After Affleck failed to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Director, many Oscar prognosticators (yes, those are real people) assumed “Argo” had lost all chance for Best Picture glory. After all, no movie since “Driving Miss Daisy” has won a Best Picture

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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ a thrilling dive into contentious history

At times pulse-pounding and exhausting in detail, “Zero Dark Thirty” is an essential piece of filmmaking and a punctuation mark on a grim decade in American history. Whether it’s an exclamation point or question mark is open for interpretation. The movie follows Maya (Jessica Chastain), a CIA agent who commits 10 years to gathering information

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