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October 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Sony, Underworld

I Guess Underworld 5 Has Started Shooting

I’ve been pretty harsh on the Underworld franchise, and maybe unfairly. I honestly stopped watching them after the second movie,

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October 20, 2015 Trae Dorn Episode VII, Star Wars, The Force Awakens, trailer

Watch the New ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailer

The newest trailer for Episode VII aired during this week’s Monday Night Football, and it’s a doozy. Unlike the earlier

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October 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Batman v Superman, DC, Warner Bros

LexCorp.io Site Launched to Promote ‘Batman v. Superman’

Batman v Superman: Dawn of the Planet of the Secret Final Crisis of Justice comes to theaters next year, and

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October 19, 2015 Trae Dorn Episode VII, Star Wars, The Force Awakens

The Episode VII Poster is Very Star Wars-y

How excited for Star Wars: The Force Awakens are we here at Nerd & Tie? Well, I’m bothering to post

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October 18, 2015 Trae Dorn Anime Fusion, Atom, Con Scene, Conventions, DC, Frank Miller, Gamera, Godzilla, Godzilla vs King Kong, King Kong, Superman, The Atom, The Dark Knight 3, Toho, Zombicon

Episode 58 – Bigger Than Ever

https://archive.org/download/episode59_20160330/episode58.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis episode of Nerd & Tie is sadly

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October 18, 2015 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Zombicon

Shooting at ZombiCon Leaves 1 Dead, 5 Injured

Gunfire broke out at ZombiCon in Fort Myers, FL last night, leaving one person dead and another five injured. Very

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October 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Paramount

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 Cancelled, TV Series in Development

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters wasn’t a huge movie domestically, but it pulled in a good amount of money internationally.

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October 16, 2015 Trae Dorn Hack/Slash, Relativity Television, Skip Woods, Stefano Caselli, Tim Seeley

‘Hack/Slash’ TV Series in Development

There have been attempts to adapt Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli’s Hack/Slash into a movie going back to 2006, but

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October 16, 2015 Trae Dorn CBS, Paramount, Star Trek, Star Trek 3, Star Trek 3ish, Star Trek Beyond

‘Star Trek Beyond’ Wraps Principal Photography

Star Trek Beyond, the third installment in the rebooted Star Trek film series, has had a rockier road than most

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There’s an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an “ancient” practice even if it’s just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people’s eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

So I thought about calling this “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Part 2” or “Older Doesn’t Mean Better Redux” since this is some of the same territory we covered back in episode 17, but I think I’ve gotten more surly on the topic over the last six years, and wanted to talk about it again. Also, I kind of forgot I’d recorded an episode on this when I was prepping the episode, but I like this version better.

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