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Kathryn Adams

Review: Blood Communion

The next book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles is out, just in time for Halloween! In this latest installment of Lestat’s adventures, the Brat Prince is doing a lot of soul-searching as he wonders about his place in the universe and in the Vampire Court. That right there is at least three-quarters of the plot.

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Review – First Man

By guest columnist the_film_fanatics. The story of how man first set foot on the moon is one we all know, not exactly one you can find a suspense story within: we all know who makes it to the moon and that they make it. There’s little in the way of tension in watching a movie

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Review – Unicron #5

I can’t believe we’re down to the last two issues of every IDW Transformers series. And even though we had lots of battles and death, this issue still seemed to be on the quieter side (relatively) which I appreciated because with everything going on in these books I needed a chance to catch my breath.

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Rosemary’s Baby

This is no dream, she thought. This is real, this is happening. The nights are getting longer, the days are getting cooler (high eighties over here in North Carolina instead of mid nineties, that counts as “cooler,” right?), and Halloween is only 22 days away, time for a month of spooky-book reviews. Rosemary’s Baby is a

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Review – Venom (2018)

By guest columnist narrator26 From the opening scenes of Venom‘s cinematic solo debut, I found myself being brought back to simpler comic book times: no blatant world-building and no exaggerated sense of scale; quite enjoyable actually. Unfortunately, as the film progressed, my warm feeling towards early noughties nostalgia was soon replaced with the realisation of

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The Future Is Blue

Untold riches! Following up on the success of her book Space Opera, Catherynne Valente has released a second book this year, this one a collection of her short stories. And what a collection it is. Absolutely everything I love about Valente’s writing is on display here. These stories defy description, so click the jump to

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Review – BlacKkKlansman

Now’s the time of year we start looking at the Oscars shortlists and try to get ahead of some of the possible nominations. This week we’ve got guest columnist’s Caleb Luther‘s look at Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman. This is only the second Spike Lee joint I’ve seen (the first was He Got Game), and I have to say

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