Bryan Vallejo

Bryan Vallejo

Bryan Vallejo, an instrumental member of the Cristian Rivera Foundation. Bryan attended the Borough of Manhattan Community College where he received his Associate’s in multimedia programming. He continued his education at the Institute of Pittsburgh for animation. Bryan has always had a passion for drawing and creating images so that they can come to life.
Movies

A Hotel full of Comedians

In recent years, Adam Sandler’s movies were not what they used to be and the sight of him making another movie can anyone groan in distaste from his typical low-brow jokes, lame puns, and horrible humor. But with this animated feature, it manages to be its own family fun comedy …

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Movies

Tim Burton returns to his stop-motion roots

Soon to be released in theaters October 5th is one of Tim Burton’s classic 1984 shorts, “Frankenweenie”, a film about a boy named Victor Harness (Charlie Tahan) and his charismatic dog, Sparky whom unexpectedly lost his life. With the boy’s love of science, he sought out to revive his best …

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TV

Wonder Woman is set to make her return to Television

Out of all the comic book heroes to be portrayed through the live-action medium, Wonder Woman is definitely the hardest. As she made her debut in 1941’s “All-Star Comic #8” and receive her own comic in “Wonder Woman #1” which was released on June of the following year. Since then …

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Health and Wellness

FDA stops imported Mangos that are linked to salmonella

 Last week the federal food and drug administration detained imported mango from Mexican packinghouse after their product was linked to salmonella illness in 15 states. The FDA announced the alerts on Friday, September 14, against Agricola Daniella, a mango supplier with many plantations in Sinaloa, Mexico which means that the …

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Movies

Resident Evil: Retribution Manages to be loud with action and zombie killing that has ZERO point

Let’s get this out the way right now, Resident Evil: Retribution is a horrible movie; Paul WS Anderson manages to achieve everything that a bad filmmaker possesses, horrible acting, a plot that goes nowhere, no consistency, poor action scenes, you name it and he has almost all of it. I’ve …

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TV

‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ Opens Big

On Tuesday, September 5, 2012, Kelly Ripa introduced a new c-host, Michael Strahan during the broadcast of the newly-rechristened syndicated talk show. ‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ scored and impressive 3.9 Household rating, shooting up 44% over the year ago September 2011 time-period average (2.7/9) making the talk show ranked …

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Food

McDonald’s open vegetarian-only restaurants in India

    McDonald’s Corp is famously known for their McBurgers, Big Mac and Mc Café, but now the world famous fast food chain is now serving only vegetarian food due to customer preferences on the region. Already McDonald doesn’t not served any beef nor pork, so they have menu catering …

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Health and Wellness

Are organic foods a waste of money?

From First Lady, Michelle Obama to Dr. Oz, the American public has been hammered for years on that buying organic foods is the way to go. But a new study shows that it might not be the case, research done at Stanford University found that organic foods aren’t any healthier …

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Movies

Lawless takes on a grim look at the Prohibition Virginia

A grim and bloody take on the true story of the Bondurant Brothers, a bootleg sibling who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. For those who haven’t heard of the story, it’s an epic tale inspired by true-life tales of the author Matt Bondurant’s family in …

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Latest News

New York Senator wants an Apology from Lil Wayne

Lil Wanye may be considered one of the great artist of this generation, but it is very rude of him to say, “I don’t like New York”, after he was arrested for weapons charge that put him in Prison (Rikers Island to be specific) for eight months in a recent …

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Movies

ParaNorman is a wonderful thrill ride that will for the entire family

If you haven’t seen the trailers or read any info about “ParaNorman”, then here is the synopsis. This movie is about a small town that comes under siege by the undead and it’s up to a little boy named Norman to save them. Norman is the only person that can …

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Movies

The Expendables are back and this time it's personal

Let’s just get this straight; this movie is just like the first, but with less shaky cam, with more light, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, and Chuck Norris taking action in this movie. Also just like the first one, this movie is a great throwback to those 80s and 90s …

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