Category: Reviews

StarWarsTalesOfTheEmpireReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Star Wars: Tales of the Empire

Created by Dave Filoni, Star Wars: Tales of the Empire is a six-part animated anthology series and sequel to the anthology series Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, focusing on the characters Barriss Offee and Morgan Elsbeth. After losing everything, young Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) navigates the expanding Imperial world toward a path of

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TheFallGuyReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Fall Guy

Directed by David Leitch, The Fall Guy follows battle-scarred stuntman Colt Seavers who, after leaving the business one year earlier, springs back into action when the star of a big studio movie directed by his ex-girlfriend suddenly disappears. As the mystery surrounding the missing actor deepens, Colt soon finds himself ensnared in a sinister plot

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TheBadBatchSeason3Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Bad Batch season 3

Helmed by Dave Filoni, Brad Rau, and Jennifer Corbett, Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 3 continues and concludes the story of Clone Force 99 aka The Bad Batch. Their limits are tested in the fight to reunite with Omega (Michelle Ang) as she faces challenges of her own inside a remote Imperial science lab

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AbigailReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Abigail

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Abigail focuses on a group of kidnappers who capture and must watch over the daughter of a powerful underworld figure from whom they demand a $50 million ransom. However, they soon get more than what they bargain for when they realize that they are trapped inside with no

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KnucklesReview
Gaming
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Knuckles

Created by John Whittington and Toby Ascher, this series follows Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) who is getting used to life on earth following the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. He ends up going on a journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Deputy Sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: “Thornhedge” and “Rose/Hall”

It’s the end of April, there’s less than fifteen weeks until this year’s Hugo Award ceremony, and I’ve got nineteen entries in the main fiction categories to read. So what the heck, we’re doing two novellas this week instead of one. And I swear, I didn’t deliberately pick these two based on similar themes in

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MinistryOfUngentlemanlyWarefareReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Directed by Guy Ritchie and based on true historical events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare follows the story of Operation Postmaster, where the British military recruited a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II.  Obviously, there have been numerous films that have adapted many true stories

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Translation State

Ann Leckie expands the universe of the Imperial Radch series (first introduced in the best-selling and Hugo-Award winning Ancillary Justice) in her latest novel Translation State. Three entirely separate lives intersect in a story about finding purpose, finding family, and finding out what it means to be human. We start with Enae Athtur; the book-jacket

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FalloutSeason1Review
Gaming
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Fallout Season 1

Created by Graham Wagner, Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Lisa Joy, and Jonathan Nolan, Fallout depicts the aftermath of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retro-futuristic society and a subsequent resource war. The survivors took refuge in fallout bunkers known as

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