Dear Mr. Abrams, It’s hard to believe it’s been more than two years since we first heard the announcement Disney had purchased Lucasfilm and that we’d finally be getting an episode 7 — something most Star Wars fans had long since given up on. It’s now less than a year
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 14: Luck of the Irish. This week our nerds celebrate the tradition of St. Patrick’s Day by discussing out favorite Irish movies, Boondock Saints, The Quiet Man, and Leprechaun. We also review the Gurkha Kracken and Innis and Gunn Irish whiskey cast. We pay tribute
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 11: High Skool Reunion. This week we get old school, all the way back to high school. We talk common themes in school movies and see how our own school adventures compare. In beer 30, we sample the Left Hand Brewing Wake Up Dead, and
The Cigar Nerds Podcast Episode 10: Parody Wars. This week our nerds venture into a galaxy far far away and take a look at parody movies and fan films inspired by Star Wars. We sample some Space Balls beer in Beer 30, and talk lasers, new planets, and life on
Every January, I like to put together a list of my most anticipated films for that upcoming year. It’s fun to peek ahead, and it’s also fun to look back at that list at the end of the year, and see how many of my “most anticipated” actually ended up
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz I’ve already started joking with my friends that Dec. 18, 2015, is either going to be the best day of my life or the worst — depending on how “Star Wars: Episode VII” turns out. 😉 That’s probably a slight exaggeration, but I think
Deck the halls and HO HO HO! Welcome to the RetroCast Christmas special deluxe where we cover our top 10 must watch Christmas movies and tv specials that are a required viewing to make it feel like corporate America hasn’t engineered this holiday just to drive everyone into poverty out
For our first episode, The Ratchet RetroCast found themselves in Mos Eisley listening to a cantina band and trying to avoid the smell of some dead green thing. That’s right, it’s Star Wars! This week Strangeway, Q and CD talk about the Star Wars franchise, with occasional muffled additions from
By Ashley Bergner Box Office Buzz Like many “Star Wars” fans, I’m still trying to process the announcement that Disney has purchased Lucasfilm and now will be at the helm of the “Star Wars” media empire. Maybe it’s just me, but this news took me completely by surprise, and I
For my final entry of Star Wars toys this week on Earth Station One I decided to cover a character that me and my son both really like. I am a fan of Ewoks. I get why people don’t like them, I just don’t agree. Ewoks are savage little brutes
Today’s Earth Station One toy review is of another of my favorite Star Wars characters, though this one is a bit more fringe than Monday’s Ackbar. Actually, he’s not even really a character, as I think out of all 9,173,826 characters that have received their own biographies courtesy of Star
Obviously I was going to have to get to Star Wars toys at some point. I wanted to kick of this week of Lucas-inspired plastic here on Earth Station One with one of my absolute favorite characters from all Star Wars media. Admiral Ackbar was by far the figure I
