Category: Reviews

Review – Batman: Assault on Arkham

The one thing that DC always seems to get right is their animated featured films. You may still want another season of Green Lantern Animated or Young Justice, that’s because they are just that good. When I heard the next DC animated film was going to borrow from the Arkham series of games, I was a little

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Since the first comic book appeared in the mid-eighties, and on to the much different iterations in animated forms and films, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been a huge success, gaining love from millions of fans. Each has their favorite turtle or series they remember as their first. It’s fair to say that the

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Deathbird Stories

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. –Robert Heinlein, 1973 That quote is featured in the introduction to this book. If it offended you, well guess what, it was supposed to. Harlan Ellison has made a career out of, if

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Guardians of the Galaxy

Marvel and their cinematic universe opened the summer with Captain America: The Winter Solider, so it’s only fitting they also close down the summer movie season with their new film, Guardians of the Galaxy, directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, Michael Rooker, and featuring the voice

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Scar

Imagine a world that’s run on magic and steam. Fill it with a collection of races so different from each other that they might as well be alien species. Then picture a pirate fleet that takes every ship it captures and adds it to the collection of ships already bolted together into a miles-wide floating island. What

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Reviews
Andrew Plein

Tech Review – Kinivo BTC450 – Bluetooth Car Kit

There are plenty of downsides to owning an older car, usually involving the outdated car stereo. There have been plenty of solutions, my favorite being the Cassette adapter. I feel quite lucky that I have at least an Aux port, but I’ve been in too many cars that have those lovely bluetooth stereos. I’ve contemplated replacing the

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Lucy

Lucy is the new film by director Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element) staring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. Lucy is a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, who is forced to be a drug mule for the mob. A drug implanted in her body inadvertently leaks into her system, which allows her to

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Iron Man Vol. 2 – The Secret Origin of Tony Stark

San Diego Comic Con starts in two days, and the entire cast of Avengers: Age of Ultron will be there. To get us in the mood, lets review an Iron Man graphic novel, shall we? At the start of Iron Man Volume 2, Tony Stark is literally flying high: saving an alien world from space pirates and

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Leland Pierce

Review – The Purge: Anarchy

The year is 2023, crime is at an all time low thanks to The Purge, the one night a year where all crime is legal, including murder. Are you ready to once again let out the beast and purge yourself? The Purge: Anarchy is the sequel to 2013’s The Purge. Where the first movie centers on

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