Still, there was no denying that his headquarters world, Xana, set an entirely new record for the shortest interval between my arrival at a place I’d never been and the very first attempt on my life there. We’re talking about minutes. Minutes. Things have started to improve for Andrea Cort at last. She’s been given
In the past few years, Laika Animation Studio has proven itself to be a shining light in a world of mediocre animation studios with sucussful films like Coraline and ParaNorman. This year’s animated movie is The Boxtrolls: The story of an orphaned boy named Eggs who was raised by underground cave-dwelling trash collecting trolls called
“Can’t they make their own damn show?” I say. “Come on,” Kingston says. “Faeries are proud. The Summer King would never stoop to imitating his enemy.” “Besides,” Mel says, “The name Cirque du Soleil was already taken.” I’m a sucker for cinematic scenes in books. I love it when an author’s description makes me wonder just how cool
The Maze Runner is the latest young adult novel turned movie to be released into theaters. Based on the novel of the same name by James Dashner., the story follows teenager Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) who wakes up to find himself without any memory of his past in a place called The Glade, the center of
In film these days the three act structure is law and modern audiences get confused when movies don’t go the way their sub-conscious minds are used to. Stories rarely surprise people these days; now the best we can get are moments in a movie that may trick us, but the story always remains the same.
By 1:00 A.M. her work was done: three chickens sacrificed, one each on altars of silver, iron, and stone; a stack of profit and loss statements dispatched by nightmare telegraph; a prayer litany chanted balancing on one foot; a proposal drafted, suggesting an Iskari family shift their faith from the high-risk personal resurrection market to
Continuing the theme of Back to School, this week’s review is for Charlie N. Holmberg’s debut novel The Paper Magician. The new twist on magic-users caught my attention (every magician specializes in one man-made material: metal, glass, paper, plastic, etc.,) so I picked it up after only a brief look at the description: top-in-her-magic-class Ceony is heartbroken when
Diablo 3:Reaper of Souls has finally been released for current and last gen consoles. This iteration of the least favored addition to the Diablo series is something of a godsend for the series. As some of you may know, when Diablo 3 first came out in 2012, it was almost universally panned as the worst
Warning, great big spoilers. Even though I graduated *ahem,mumble,cough* years ago, I still get a flood of memories around back-to-school season. Many are positive, some less so. By far the best memories involve Anne McCaffrey’s Harper Hall trilogy; my sixth-grade English teacher read the first two books out loud to our class over the course of most of