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StarWarsTalesOfTheEmpireReview
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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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Binary System Podcast
llyzabeth

Binary System Watch Party – Gold Diggers of 1933

We didn’t have time to recap the latest Night Vale this week, and we won’t be fast passing the latest episode of Lore Olympus for another few days, so it’s time for another Watch Party! Chiming in from three different states, this time we’re watching the very fun and often bonkers pre-Code musical Gold Diggers

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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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Art
llyzabeth

San Diego Sketch Party – Star Wars Night

Sketch Party San Diego was back this week with a special Star Wars theme night. Artists filled the tables at the Whistle Stop Bar in South Park and turned out tons of fantastic Star Wars themed drawings. Check out the gallery, which features a fraction of the work (we left at 10pm and some artists

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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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Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #408 – Lore Olympus episode 274 and 275

The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don’t really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the response to that abuse. Rachel Smythe gives a balanced look at how abuse victims can overcome the feeling of guilt

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