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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Review: Neighbors

It’s time for this summer’s R-rated comedy Neighbors to lower our brain cells with humor. The newest flick stars Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and is directed by Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall). We find couple Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne, with a newborn baby, just moving in to a new neighborhood as they are faced with unexpected difficulties

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llyzabeth

Review: Emily and the Strangers

The newest Emily the Strange collection is now available in hardcover from Dark Horse; Emily and the Strangers continues the story of Rob Reger’s cute little sociopath and her cats. The story is fun, but it’s Emily Ivie’s art that jumped out at me. It’s startlingly good. I haven’t run across Ivie before, but I’ll

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Kathryn Adams

Review: The City and the Stars

Reading through Arthur C. Clarke’s Wikipedia page makes me think of those “The Most Interesting Man In The World” commercials. Clarke’s biography includes being lieutenant in the RAF during WWII, a scuba diver and discoverer of the sunken original Koneswaram temple off the coast of Sri Lanka, an inventor and futurist (he was one of the first

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Review: Son of Batman

The DC Animated movies sure have made a name for themselves. They have offered not only top notch animation, but some of the best stories of DC Comics. Looking forward to the next film is a bit of an understatement. After the mediocre JLA War, I was beginning to worry that the plague known as the New

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Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Amazing Spider-Man 2

It’s time for another swing though the city with everyone’s favorite web-swinger, Spider-Man. Once again directer Marc Webb, who brought us the previous 2012 reboot/remake/reimagining, The Amazing Spider-Man, brings back Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Sally Field for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Adding to the mix this time around: Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, and Paul Giamatti.

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Fragile Things – Short Fictions and Wonders

There are a lot of Neil Gaiman projects coming out this year that I’m REALLY looking forward to:  a graphic novel version of The Graveyard Book (with art by the incomparable P.Craig Russell), a very creepy-looking children’s book adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, an illustrated version of Gaiman’s novelette The Truth is a Cave in the Black

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llyzabeth

Review: Joss Whedon’s “In Your Eyes”

At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, viewers waiting to see the premiere of In Your Eyes were shown a short video message from the film’s writer, Joss Whedon. He apologized for not being there (he was on the set of Age of Ultron in the video.) He hoped everyone enjoyed the film, and then casually

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Review: Transformers – More Than Meets The Eye

Skids: We’re on some sort of Quest? Swerve: Uh-huh. We’ve got to find the 12 fragments of the Primal Key, unlock the Infinity Gate, travel sideways in time, defeat the Agents of Chaos and restore order to the Multiverse. Skids:… Swerve: Nah, I’m just messing with you. We’re actually looking for the Knights of Cybertron,

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llyzabeth

Review: The Martian

Andy Weir’s first novel, The Martian, has gotten a lot of attention lately, mostly because it’s nerve-wrackingly realistic. It’s about a man living in an environment that’s trying to kill him every second of his existence. And that’s on the good days, when his own mistakes don’t make things worse. It’s very well-written, and it’s not

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