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On episode 0020 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Die Another Day including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

DIE ANOTHER DAY:

DIRECTED BY
Lee Tamahori

WRITTEN BY
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade

STARRING:
Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Halle Berry (Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson), Toby Stephens (Gustav Graves), Rosamund Pike (Miranda Frost), Rick Yune (Zao), Will Yun Lee (Colonel Moon), Kenneth Tsang (General Moon), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny), Colin Salmon (Charles Robinson) with Michael Madsen (Damian Falco), John Cleese (Q) and Judi Dench (M)

James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is captured by North Korean agents and must serve a grueling prison sentence. He's finally released, and is convinced that someone in his own agency betrayed him. He escapes from custody and travels to Cuba, hot on the heels of Zao (Rick Yune), the agent who put Bond behind bars. Meanwhile, Bond begins romancing NSA agent Jinx (Halle Berry) as he uncovers a scheme concocted by Zao and British millionaire Graves (Toby Stephens), involving a highly destructive laser.

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As requested through our Patreon "Pick Your Poison" tier by Guest Five, Fanboys Anonymous is providing you with another edition of the FanTracks podcast, this time for the Best Picture winner Forrest Gump.

For copyright reasons, we cannot provide the movie itself, but after a short introduction, you will be told when to sync your copy of the film so you can following along with us and listen to our thoughts on the movie as we crack some jokes, expose plot holes, and discuss anything else that comes to our minds for commentary.

FanTracks Episode 38 hosted by Tony Mango along with Robert DeFelice .

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Lucifer Season 5 Part B

DAN. That made me sad. I see why they went in that direction, but it definitely got me in the gut that he was killed off. I commend them for doing it, though. He did start off the show as a corrupt cop and it's interesting to put him in a scenario where he has to go to Hell because of not getting over that.

This certainly felt like the end of the series, as it was intended to be. It seems like one more episode or two would be all that they needed to wrap things up: put Dan in Heaven, come to terms with Lucifer being the new God, possibly make Charlie an angel after all, clarify Chloe's true purpose and maybe wrap it up with God saying this was all his plan. Oh, and Lopez needs to find out and serve some kind of bigger picture role, too.

At this point, what is there left to do with Linda or Maze, for instance? I'm curious what the next season will be about for them.

I loved a lot of this season. God's appearances were fantastic. I loved seeing characters mature and actually advance, rather than circle back to previous tropes just to prolong things like a lot of other television shows do.

The show does sort of feel like it's done mostly everything it can do, so I'm okay with it ending in the next season, even though my brain tells me "more of a good thing is what you want." But hey, we didn't need that last extra season of Scrubs, right?

A Quiet Place Part II & Spin-off

Having seen Part 2 the other day, I enjoyed it. It's basically a somewhat lesser version of the previous film, but close to the same level of quality. If you liked the first one, I recommend it.

Apparently, there's a spin-off in development that won't be a direct sequel, but just something else in the same world space. Possibly a prequel. Maybe something that runs alongside or takes place after, but just doesn't focus on the family.

I've liked the previous two, so I'll be interested in seeing any other ones in the future so long as they have a good enough pitch and seem decent. They won me over and it'll be easier to keep me coming back. Kind of like The Purge from #2 onward.

I wouldn't mind if that was the end of it, though. I don't think I need to see the true end of the invasion, but I'd also be interested to see a story where they've wiped out most of the aliens and they're rebuilding.

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To celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the release of No Holds Barred, Fanboys Anonymous is providing you with another edition of the FanTracks podcast!

For copyright reasons, we cannot provide the movie itself, but after a short introduction, you will be told when to sync your copy of the film so you can following along with us and listen to our thoughts on the movie as we crack some jokes, expose plot holes, and discuss anything else that comes to our minds for commentary.

FanTracks Episode 37 hosted by Tony Mango along with Robert DeFelice and Callum Wiggins.

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On episode 0019 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film The World is Not Enough including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH:

DIRECTED BY
Michael Apted

WRITTEN BY
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade (screenplay and story), Bruce Feirstein (screenplay)

STARRING:
Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sophie Marceau (Elektra King), Robert Carlyle (Viktor "Renard" Zokas), Denise Richards (Dr. Christmas Jones), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny), Colin Salmon (Charles Robinson), Michael Kitchen (Bill Tanner), with John Cleese (R) and Judi Dench (M)

Bond (Pierce Brosnan) must race to defuse an international power struggle with the world's oil supply hanging in the balance. Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), is the daughter of a murdered oil tycoon whom Bond is assigned to protect. The villain is Renard (Robert Carlyle), who has a bullet lodged in his brain rendering him unable to feel pain. Also featuring nuclear weapons expert Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards).

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On episode 0018 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

TOMORROW NEVER DIES:

DIRECTED BY
Roger Spottiswoode

WRITTEN BY
Bruce Feirstein

STARRING:
Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Jonathan Pryce (Elliot Carver), Michelle Yeoh (Wai Lin), Teri Hatcher (Paris Carver), Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta), Götz Otto (Stamper), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny), Colin Salmon (Charles Robinson), with Vincent Schiavelli (Dr. Kaufman) and Judi Dench (M)

Media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) wants his news empire to reach every country on the globe, but the Chinese government will not allow him to broadcast there. Carver doesn't take no for an answer and plans to use his media empire to fuel flames of war between the Western world and China. Thankfully, James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) is on to the insane news tycoon and travels to China to stop him with the help of Chinese secret agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh).

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Eternals Teaser

Well. That wasn't much. After all this time, all they bothered to release was basically a series of still images with nothing to really sink your teeth into? This felt more like a motion graphic you'd put up on Twitter rather than a true look at the film to convince anyone to see the movie. And look, I know that the MCU is just a brand in and of itself at this point that sells people on seeing the film based entirely on seeing the word Marvel. I'm obviously going to see this opening night. But since I have no fandom for the Eternals characters and most people are in the same boat I'm in, where we don't know these people, I think you need to sell audiences on more than "it's another MCU film"—especially if the jokes aren't all that funny and the visuals aren't anything we haven't seen before.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson Cast as Kraven the Hunter

ATJ is a great actor. Everything I've seen him in, he's done a fantastic job, for the most part. But I don't picture him as Kraven whatsoever. Nor do I think doing a Kraven solo film is a good idea. I still maintain the better scenario would have been Kraven as the main villain of the third Spider-Man film, hunting down fugitive Peter Parker, who could team up with Daredevil and Black Panther (as Kraven could have ties to Wakanda). This just seems like a bad idea all around and I've been hating Sony's methodology of "we have characters, so let's just do tons of movies based on them". Nobody wanted to see a Jackpot film, for instance. Kraven isn't a solo movie guy, in my mind.

Sin

Rumor has it, the villain of Captain America 4 will be Red Skull's daughter, Sin.

I don't buy it. They just had both the Flag-Smashers and the Power Broker as female-led villains in the TV series and I can't imagine Sam having an all-out fist fight with another young red head girl as the follow-up. Hence why I think switching Morgenthau was a bad idea, or at least, they shouldn't have gone with "young redhead girl" as the archetype to change to. 

Serpent Society/Squad could be a thing, maybe with Cutthroat and such. Blackwing, maybe, if they want to ignore Agent Carter. The Corporation? Doctor Faustus? Grand Director?

Stowaway

For a random viewing, I watched the film Stowaway on Netflix. Not bad, but I wouldn't recommend it for anything other than a quick watch that you don't need to be super invested in. 3/5 type film.

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Zack Snyder's latest film Army of the Dead has been released, meaning Fanboys Anonymous is providing you with another edition of the FanTracks podcast!

For copyright reasons, we cannot provide the movie itself, but after a short introduction, you will be told when to sync your copy of the film so you can following along with us and listen to our thoughts on the movie as we crack some jokes, expose plot holes, and discuss anything else that comes to our minds for commentary.

FanTracks Episode 36 hosted by Tony Mango along with Robert DeFelice .

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On episode 0017 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film GoldenEye including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

GOLDENEYE:

DIRECTED BY
Martin Campbell

WRITTEN BY
Michael France (story), Jeffrey Caine (screenplay), Bruce Feirstein (screenplay)

STARRING:
Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky), Gottfried John (Colonel Ouromov), Alan Cumming (Boris Grishenko), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Samantha Bond (Moneypenny), Michael Kitchen (Bill Tanner), Tchéky Karyo (Dimitri Mishkin), and Judi Dench (M)

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006 (Sean Bean), a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Amazon Buying MGM

It's supposedly becoming more and more likely Amazon will be the ones to buy MGM and acquire the rights to the James Bond franchise as well as Rocky, RoboCop and some other IPs.

I was thinking Paramount would be the ones to win the bid, but Amazon surely has the money to spend $9 billion on this to bulk out Amazon Prime's list.

Ultimately, what I want is for these IPs to go to a good home that will support their best growth (rather than a studio that would get in the way and ruin the franchises) and for this streaming bubble to pop in a way that is beneficial to the subscribers and people can stop needing to sub to a million things. We need there to not be a monopoly, because competition breeds benefits for the consumers, but we also need to stop having a million of these where almost none of them are worth the monthly price.

Of course, there's this whole thing with AT&T and WarnerMedia and Discovery+ that is going to factor into the streaming wars, too, but I can't even wrap my mind around what's going on with that, to be honest. That whole situation is very clunky and confusing to me, for whatever reason. But if Amazon buys MGM, they might not be in the market to purchase WB assets, so we might see something like Comcast pick that up instead and the merger of the streaming wars could be hitting a big tipping point.

Snake Eyes Trailer

This is the most basic stuff imaginable. It very easily could have been a fan trailer. I might watch the film regardless, but the trailer did NOTHING to make me hyped.

Injustice: Gods Among Us Animated Film in the Works

At this point, you can't deny that Injustice: Gods Among Us hasn't been one of the most influential things in modern DC. I'm not even as huge of a fan of it as most people, but I'm still excited about the prospect of watching this story unfold in an animated film. Very cool!

Give me Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and the regular folk for this, by the way.

New Animated Superman and Batman Shows Coming to HBO Max

Jack Quaid (from The Boys) is going to be a young Clark Kent in an upcoming Superman animated series, and J.J. Abram, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm are helming a Batman animated series (Batman: Caped Crusader), both coming to HBO Max.

Star Wars: Rangers of the New Republic No Longer in Development

The spin-off from The Mandalorian that was originally going to focus on Cara Dune has seemingly been shelved and is no longer in development. I'd imagine this is because, you know, the main character isn't going to be in the mix anymore. There were rumors they could replace her with Hera from Rebels, which would have been very cool. I've still maintained the idea that if you have no issues with the character of Cara Dune, but the actress, then you should just recast her. It's not as though that's never happened in the history of films and television shows. Frankly, I think it should/could happen more often than it does. Don Cheadle worked better than Terrence Howard for War Machine, right? We've had multiple James Bond actors. I doubt Cara Dune is above recasting.

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On episode 0016 of the Fanboys Anonymous A REVIEW TO A KILL podcast, hosts Tony Mango, Callum Wiggins and Robert DeFelice discuss the 007 elements of the James Bond film Licence to Kill including the gadgets, the girls, the villains, the quips, the music and more.

LICENCE TO KILL:

DIRECTED BY
John Glen

WRITTEN BY
Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum

STARRING:
Timothy Dalton (James Bond), Carey Lowell (Pam Bouvier), Robert Davi (Franz Sanchez), Talisa Soto (Lupe Lamora), Anthony Zerbe (Milton Krest), Benicio Del Toro (Dario), David Hedison (Felix Leiter), Frank McRae (Sharkey), Desmond Llewelyn (Q), Everett McGill (Killifer), Anthony Starke (Truman-Lodge), Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (President Hector Lopez), Caroline Bliss (Miss Moneypenny), Priscilla Barnes (Della Churchill), Don Stroud (Heller), Robert Brown (M) and Wayne Newton (Professor Joe Butcher)

James Bond adventure in which 007 relinquishes his licence to kill, disobeys his orders and goes on a mission of revenge when his best friend's wife is killed by a drug baron. A beautiful CIA pilot flies him to Sanchez's South American headquarters where, disguised as a hit man, Bond is hired by the villainous drug dealer.

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Welcome to another edition of WEEK IN GEEK here at Fanboys Anonymous—a rundown of some of the events, news and stories that went down over the past few days in the geek culture spectrum.

Here are some of the topics I felt like voicing my opinions about:

Venom: Let There Be Carnage Trailer

Oh. Oh no. Oh this doesn't look like it's going to be better than the last film. In fact, it's looking like it might end up being somehow worse. This doesn't feel right. Carnage doesn't even look impressive, nor does Woody seem like he's got the type of character down that I've always envisioned in Cletus Kasady.

I have a bad feeling about this.

Legend of the Hidden Temple

LOTHT is returning, and it's going to be for adults? Yo! I used to love this show. I even have a Silver Snakes shirt from when I had set up a partnership to tie into New York Comic Con. This is awesome news!

Now give us Nick Arcade with Xavier Woods hosting the show, too. And GUTS should return.

Shang-Chi and Free Guy Sticking to Theaters

Both films are going to remain theater-only showings with a 45-day window, shortening their time before coming to streaming services, but not releasing on the same day. No Disney+ Premier service plans for these two, at least.

I'm all up for these companies experimenting. They need to. Without testing out several different methods, there's no way to know where the future is heading and how to best navigate those waters.

I'm still not feeling comfortable enough to go to theaters. I don't know if I'll be willing to do that by the time these come out. However, my need to see these MCU films before getting stuff spoiled may be the biggest factor in making me just go "screw it, I'll risk it" haha

Disney+ Hits a Wall

After a massive start and an amazing subscriber rate that shattered expectations, the bloom is off the rose.

Q2 reports are 103.6 million subscribers, which is 7 million short of their goal. Also, the average revenue per user is $3.99, down from $5.63.

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