by Matt Medina

Oh boy Oh boy, we are back and in full swing. Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: gather round and let me start talkin' talkies! I am Matt Medina and I am pleased to talk to you guys again. SO, without further rambles here is my Talkie this week.

This week The Editor n' Chief of our beloved NEON EAGLE wanted me to do a retrospective on any movie that I chose. The movie that I picked was the Kung-Fu classic 'Big Boss' (or Fist of Fury if you aren’t familiar with the OG name). Well where do I start.....Ah yes IM A HUGE FUCKING BRUCE LEE FAN!!!!!! I love all of his movies, yes even Game Of Death but the only reason I like it is because of the ridiculous thing that they did in that movie to make it seem that Bruce was still in it after minute 15. But that is for another day. TODAY we talk Big Boss so here is a plot summary:

Chein (Bruce Lee) is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the ice factory, the resulting mystery and pressures forces him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the 'Big Boss'.

As you read that it is short, sweet, and straight to the point. With this being an early 70s movie there is a lot of cheesy things like bright red fake blood, and easy to catch edits of people getting hit with knives and hatchets. Even with all goofy crap this movie still kicks ass 5 ways to Sunday. If you’ve never seen this movie and are a fan of any classic GOLDEN HARVEST movie or any old Kung-Fu talkie, then I highly recommend this. So with this being Bruce Lee's first major motion picture it's one of his best, he even helped write it, and Lo Wei directed it with Bruce's help. Bruce choreographed most of the fights scenes but that’s a given since he is BRUCE LEE. Anyway, when the film was released in Hong Kong in 1971, it included scenes that were later removed from all mainstream versions. Those scenes where of a man being cut in half by a circular saw, a man's forehead spewing blood from an artery cut caused by a knife, and a notorious depicti0n of a villain killed by "vertical partial cranial laceration" with a hand saw......Yeah that’s some heavy shit. But I cannot stress enough that I really love this movie. As with my other reviews don’t just take my word for it, go see it and start doing high kicks around your house and your place of work. OK so that is the end of my review/love letter to Bruce Lee and his Legacy.

Thanks of sitting down or standing up in a bus to hang out with me to talk talkies. I’ve have been your Talkie Shaman Matt Medina, Please come back next week when I have some other Talkie that will blow your wig off.

by JJ Anderson

Ok, listen. I know there are probably endless articles on Adventure Time. I might repeat what's been said a bit. But it has to be said that Adventure Time is one of the most well developed shows around at the moment. Pendleton Ward and his staff of writers know how to weave Comedy and Drama throughout the seasons that their show has been running. First we get introduced to two of the main characters of the show Jake the dog, and Finn the human. Already, the people running the show present the audience with an intriguing premise. Why is "the human" added after his name? You come to find out Finn is an anomaly in this world and if anything, Jake the magic ability-to-stretch-and-form-himself-into-anything dog is much more normal in this world. Finn, while not magic at all, does possess the regular heroic traits that you find in classic tales. He has struggles and perseveres through them. Jake has his own problems in later seasons, when he becomes a dad and the writers show how he has to mature quickly.

These really are the base characters as you plainly see when you watch the show over time, but I assume Pendleton Ward wanted to show people how in-depth his fantasy world was. So, he starts introducing all these fascinating characters. Of all of these, probably my most favorite: the Ice King, such a tortured character. He comes off as a creep in the early parts, well actually, throughout the whole series, but there are episodes that give backstory on why he acts the way he does. What the crown on his head really means. Very hard-hitting stuff now that I think about it. To see what he and Marceline went through and the courage he had to save her, it's hard not to tear up a bit.

This really is what makes me love the show. The character development is so excellent. I really root for the characters and throughout it laugh at all the random jokes that are sprinkled throughout, jokes that in fact, seem a bit out of place on Cartoon Network. Adventure Time is now in it's own tier in my mind. Community used to be, but that's a whole different subject.

by Glenn Rose

Modern Family is a family comedy that was started in 2009 by Steven Levitan, and Christopher Lloyd who are both known from the show Wings in the 1990s. The show centers around one family that has three different types of families in it. First there are the Dunphy’s, who play the role of the “traditional” family in the show with a mother, father, two daughters and a son. The father (Phil Dunphy) is a bumbling nitwit through the entire show, with a wife (Claire Dunphy) who plays the role of the neurotic frazzled mother who is forced to pick up the pieces of her family’s shenanigans. Their kids are a ditzy, late high schooler, a smart well rounded daughter and a youngest son who is a spitting image of his father in the area of smarts. Claire is the daughter of Jay Pritchett who is a rich older man that got remarried to a Columbian fireball named Gloria, who has a son that is very precocious. Jay’s son in the show (Claire’s brother [Mitchell Pritchett]) is a very straight laced, gay man with a husband who is loud and dramatic. Later into the show they adopt a young Vietnamese girl named Lily and they begin to deal with the difficulties of raising a child in their own way.

This show is an important change to the standard family dynamic usually portrayed on TV. This show, shows that you don’t need to be “normal” in order to raise a family right, or have a loving environment. In such an important time for the progression of gay rights, this show helps the image that there is no great terror that gay parenting would cause for future generations. Also it takes down some of the stigmas of age differences in marriages. Jay and Gloria have what seems in the show to be a very loving, understanding marriage with comical issues that do stem from the age difference, and also their cultural differences. But still, in the end they’re happy and loving the whole way through.

If you remember Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park talking about the Chaos Theory, this show is a perfect showing of that in real life. In case you don’t know what the Chaos Theory is or don’t remember it, it’s basically: Anything that can go wrong, will. Everything that happens in the show is just winding up a whole new, awkward or ridiculous situation that is about to happen.

This show is a heartwarming, uproarious comedy that I don’t think anyone should go without seeing.

Airs Wednesdays at 9pm on ABC. New season begins September 25th with a 1-Hour Season Premiere.

The Conjuring

(2013)

Hello Boys and girls and welcome back to Talkin' Talkies With Matt Medina. Today I will be reviewing 'The Conjuring', a movie of which i was hesitant on seeing for more than one reason. 1. I’m not fond of horror movies.... I just don’t like being scared of shit that I know doesn’t exist... Now that’s the only reason, so don’t judge me. But I will say that this movie might have changed that, the reason I say this is because the movie is a good thriller and semi horror. Yet, alot of the sequences and dialogue was, for a lack of a better word… humorus. I say this because the horror movies that Ive seen are the old cheesy 70s and 80s classics like 'Friday the 13th', 'Children Of The Corn' , and 'Nightmare On Elm Street'. At that time they were scary as shit but thirty years later it’s more of a unintentional comedy. Just don’t get me wrong when you read this. I was sweating balls about watching this movie because, you know I’m somewhat of a man and my buddy George brought his girl - friends with him so I was trying to look "cool" while I trying not to make short cakes in my pants (otherwise known as pooping.....). Anyway I really enjoyed this movie. I’ll give you a plot summary.

So in 1971, Carolyn and Roger Parren move their family of 5 daughters into this dilapidated Rhode Island farm house, and it isn’t long before nightmarish terror engulfs their lives. In desperation, Carolyn contacts noted paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren, to investigate the house. What they discover is the whole area is steeped in Satanic history that now follows the Perrens wherever they go.

That is the movie in a nutshell and let me tell YOU, THE READERS OF THE NEON EAGLE AND SO FORTH, go out and see this movie. Whether it be a Matinee or if you have real balls (Unlike Me) and see it at the night showings, you will enjoy it. All of the makeup and costumes are fantastic. There are scenes that will make you laugh one second and curl up into the fetal position in the next. Down below I will leave the cast info and the director’s, the latter of which is new to me.

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MOVIE INFO:

Directed by: James Wan

Produced by: Tony DeRosa-Grund

Peter Safran

Rob Cowan

Written by: Chad Hayes

Carey Hayes

Starring: Vera Farmiga

Patrick Wilson

Ron Livingston

Lili Taylor

Music by: Joseph Bishara

Cinematography: John R. Leonetti

Editing by: Kirk M. Morri

Studio: The Safran Company

Evergreen Media Group

New Line Cinema

Distributed by: Warner Bros (ALL POWERFUL).

Release date(s): July 19, 2013

Running timE: 112 minutes[1]

Country: United States

Language: English

Budget: $20 million

Box office: $141,371,552