“So one of them is lying.” “Just one? To quote a great detective, ‘Everyone has a secret, and everyone lies.” Traveling incognito isn’t easy when you’re a famous inventor (also victim of an infamous accident), and your brand-new husband is a famous detective (retired). It’s taken a lot of money and pull, but Tesla and
Directed by Justin Simien and based on the theme park ride of the same name, Haunted Mansion follows Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and her son Travis (Chase W. Dillon) who move into a mansion, only to find that it is haunted. To combat the spirits, they enlist the aid of a team to help exorcise their
Helmed by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, The Witcher Season 3 Volume 2 follows directly after the events of Volume 1. Massive revelations have sparked the fires of war and all major parties collide together in a battle that will determine the fate of the Continent and its inhabitants forever. Due to the spoiler-heavy nature of this
I’m actually ahead of the game this year as far as the Hugo-nominated novelettes. By which I mean I’ve read one of them already (it’s the Catherynne Valente one, which I’m sure is no surprise). For the first three Best Novelette nominees, we have stories which all include the theme of needing to be seen,
Directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer tells the story of the personal and historical life of “the father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), whose work at the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos Laboratory led to the invention of the first nuclear weapons during World War II, changing the course of world history forever.
Directed by Greta Gerwig, Barbie follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling), who are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land, full of other Kens and Barbies. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and
My name’s Andrea Cort. I hate heights, I hate being helpless, and I hate creatures bigger than I am. It was almost exactly twenty years ago that I picked up a copy of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and read “The Tangled Strings of the Marionettes”. The story – set on the planet
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 follows Ethan Hunt and the IMF team who must track down a terrifying new weapon in the form of an Artificial Intelligence, a threat to all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the
Just as I was toying with posting a review of several random short stories (in hopes of getting one that might be nominated for a Hugo Award), the Chengdu Worldcon committee today posted the full list of finalists. I didn’t manage to guess more than one nominated work of short fiction (Catherynne Valente’s excellent novelette),