Category: Reviews

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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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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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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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Books
Kathryn Adams

2024 Hugo Awards – Three Novelettes

This year, the first two of the Hugo Novelettes I read consisted of cozy and light-hearted ways of looking at how society can treat its vulnerable members versus how it actually does. I followed those up with a story in the form of a scientific treatise that illustrates how one piece of technology can change

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InvincibleSeason2Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Invincible Season2

Created by Robert Kirkman, Invincible Season 2 takes place one month after the events of Season 1 and follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun) after the Earth-shattering betrayal from his father. Mark is trying to get his life back on track as he makes new adversaries and allies, all while trying to suppress his greatest fear:

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Saint of Bright Doors

“Your father abandoned us. We were unchosen, cast out of his eschatology. We are going to destroy your father’s cult and salt the earth where it falls.” Fetter’s mother rips off his shadow immediately after birth, and almost as immediately starts his training. He commits his first killing at age eleven (a grand-uncle on his

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