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Crooked Table Podcast: Episode 1 – The Fandom Menace

Most podcasts would settle on a frequency and episode length upfront, but that just wouldn’t be the Crooked Table way. After launching with the raw version of the show with Episode 0, the first true installment of the Crooked Table Podcast sees Robert Yaniz Jr. and Freddy Yaniz get their geek on with some of the summer’s biggest box office hits. This double-length special edition episode includes reviews of Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Reviews of all three can be found here. Continue reading Crooked Table Podcast: Episode 1 – The Fandom Menace

Review: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’

For decades, sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek have remained in the collective pop culture consciousness. Through films, television shows, video games, and the like, these properties have captured the hearts and imaginations of generations of fans, and for a while back in the late 1960s and 1970s, this was the case with Planet of the Apes as well. After all, the original 1968 film spawned four sequels, a live-action television series and an animated show. Over the years, that enthusiasm for the primate-centric world had certainly faded, but if any film can help the series reclaim its rightful place among its genre peers, it’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

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