Category: Reviews

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Transformers #20

“You called her “Green”?” “What’s wrong with that? She is green.” After three long months we finally have another issue of Transformers! My heartfelt thanks and admiration to everyone who made this happen in the middle of the clusterf*ck that 2020 has become. Keep reading for a review of Transformers #20.

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Da 5 Bloods

Directed by Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods follows four African American vets who battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their squad leader, and the gold fortune he helped them hide during the war. Spike Lee has proven to be a masterful filmmaker many times over,

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Jurassic Park (1993)

Today marks the 27th anniversary of one of the most massive blockbusters that changed the film industry in so many ways. Jurassic Park follows paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) who are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Mad Max: Fury Road

It’s been 5 years since George Miller graced us with the return of the road warrior on the big screen, in perhaps the best installment of his post apocalyptic series: Mad Max Fury Road. The story follows a haunted and unhinged Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) traveling across the endless wasteland of the old world before

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Exhalation – Stories

Ted Chiang is up for two Hugo awards this year, one novelette (“Omphalos”) and one novella (Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom). I was able to get ahold of the book they’re collected in, so I’m taking an easy week and just reading those two stories. Ha! Just kidding, it’s a short-story collection, of course

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Far Sector #6

“…in my vast experience, anybody who says they’ve got everything under control… …is full of it.” We’re six issues in on a series about a woman who used to be a cop until she reported her coworkers for police brutality, and now she’s a Green Lantern on a planet who’s police force just opened fire

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January

If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some point there is always a doorway. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo Awards this year, one for the lovely short story “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” and one for The Ten Thousand Doors

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Gideon the Ninth

Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. The Emperor of the First House (King of the Nine Renewals, the Necrolord Prime) has issued a summons to the other eight Houses. The heir to each House

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Scoob

Reviewer Hugh Verheylewegen has a look at Scoob, the latest incarnation of Scooby Doo. Directed by Tony Cervone, Scoob follows Scooby Doo and the gang on an all new mystery-solving adventure. Scoob was initially supposed to be newest theatrical release of the popular Scooby Doo franchise. With theaters still closed we had the movie given to us

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