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What Revisiting 'Sonic 2' Taught Me About the Art of Speedrunning
A 'Power Action!' exploration
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Andy Smith

March 2024

Comic Book Movies Winning at the Oscars: 1989-Today
ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE may join an elite group on Sunday
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Andy Smith

February 2024

Bigfoot Sightings ... in Video Games?
A brief Power Action! mystery
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Andy Smith
Does Jeff Goldblum Have the Most Interesting Action Figure Portfolio?
The most important question of our time.
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Andy Smith
Ranking the Best Arcade Tricks of the '90s
From Area 51 to Marvel Vs. Capcom
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Andy Smith

December 2023

Our Favorite Pop-Cultural Artifacts of 2023
A Power Action! year-end tradition
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Andy Smith
Turbo Tidbits: A Few Things You Absolutely Didn’t Need to Know About ‘Jingle All the Way’
From the real-life version of Turbo Man to those surprisingly effective visuals
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Andy Smith

October 2023

Let's Talk About Blade the Vampire Hunter.
A Power Action! special for Halloween
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Andy Smith
'Demolition Man' at 30
Peripheral factoids and unexpected ways that the 1993 sci-fi actioner lives on
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Andy Smith

September 2023

'Beetlejuice 2' Is Coming Next Year. Will There Be a Sequel to the Classic Toyline, Too?
(Yes. Power Action! is back. Sorry for the months-long sabbatical.)
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Andy Smith

March 2023

A Huge Month for a Super Mario 64 Speedruns
Suigi has done it: a sub-7-minute 1-star masterpiece
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Andy Smith
The Mario Movie Merch Machine: Then & Now
The sibling plumbers are coming back to the silver screen
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Andy Smith
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