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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: Pompeii

The tagline reads, “No Warning, No Escape”. No better words could describe the feeling of watching Paul W.S. Anderson’s new action/romance, Pompeii. The movie is set in the Roman city of Pompeii, where Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave turned gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Movie Novelizations

We’ve all run into it at one time or another. As a literary genre it’s pretty much inescapable. There are a few gems here and there, but the quality is generally middling-to-poor: words churned out by writers who might not excel at anything else. Sometimes we find one that appeals to us, or that we’ve

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llyzabeth

Review: Joss Whedon’s Fray

Reading the first issue of Leaves on the Wind, Dark Horse’s answer to a second season of Firefly, put me on a Joss Whedon kick, so I went through my collection of Joss-created comics. I wasn’t surprised to find that even though it’s been ten years since Fray was released as a graphic novel, it

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Kathryn Adams

Valentine’s Day: Our favorite literary couples

A dual post from Kathryn and Elizabeth When talking about great couples from sci-fi and fantasy books, there are a lot of obvious ones:  Harry and Ginny, Westley and Buttercup, Drogo and Daenerys, Katniss and Peeta (or Gale), and Bella and Edward (or Jacob), to name a few. We decided instead of listing all the

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llyzabeth

Review: Red Rising

This book was released less than a month ago, but it’s already causing a stir, and it’s easy to see why. Red Rising has elements that will be familiar to anyone who’s read books like Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, or Divergent, but Pierce Brown has taken these concepts and made them into something original and

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Six-Gun Snow White

Love is the color of blood. Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing… I read the description for Six Gun Snow White on Goodreads: “…Valente transports the title’s heroine to a masterfully evoked Old West…” and thought, oh well, I’m not much of a fan of Westerns,

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Movie Issues
Leland Pierce

Movie Issues: The Monuments Men

The Monuments Men is a look into the world of war through the eyes of the people who see beyond the fighting, who see what happens once the fighting is over. What happens when we, as a society, lose our history and where we’ve come from? That’s just one reason why The Monuments Men did what

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Sandkings – A collection of short stories by George R.R. Martin

If you follow many of the posts on Pixelated Geek (and, you know, own a computer and have access to the internet) you’re probably already aware that the new season of Game of Thrones starts on April 6. Obviously that means the Tumblr posts, plot speculations, and the rivalry between fans of the TV series

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Hounded And Hexed (The Iron Druid Chronicles #1 & #2)

Hounded: In the first book of the Iron Druid Chronicles we are introduced to our main character, Atticus O’Sullivan, a hot ginger druid who carries a massive sword around, (no no, it’s literally a sword, people!) a magical sword named Fragarach which is how our hero falls into a whole mess of trouble. Oh yeah, did

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