Category: Reviews

TheWitcherSeason3Volume1Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Witcher Season 3, volume 1

Helmed by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, The Witcher Season 3 continues the story of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri. Monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent are competing to capture Ciri so Geralt takes her into hiding, determined to protect his newly-reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Yennefer, who is entrusted with Ciri’s magical

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IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestinyReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Directed by James Mangold, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny follows daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) as he races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi

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SkullIslandReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Skull Island

Helmed by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, Love and Monsters), Skull Island takes place 20 years after the events of Kong Skull Island and follows a group of well-meaning explorers who venture out to sea to rescue a girl named Annie (Mae Whitman) from the ocean. In doing so, they find themselves shipwrecked on the perilous Skull

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Reivew: Across The Sand (The Sand Chronicles #2)

I’m a little late getting to this book, but I think I can be forgiven seeing as how this installment of Hugh Howey’s dystopian series – set in the desert wastes of what used to be Colorado – came out more than eight years after I reviewed the first one. (To be fair, Howey’s been

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Saga65Review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Saga #65

“…she encouraged us to remember one thing, that no matter how shitty our hardscrabble lives seemed……some poor bastards always had it worse.” Keep reading for a review of Saga #65. Warning, spoilers below. I’ll avoid the biggest reveals though. You can’t always distill an issue of Saga down to a single theme, but for this

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ElementalReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Elemental

Directed by Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, a world inhabited by anthropomorphic elements of nature, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story follows Ember (Leah Lewis), a tough, quick-witted, and fiery fire elemental, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow water elemental named Wade (Mamoudou Athi) challenges her beliefs

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TheFlash2023Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Flash (2023)

Directed by Andy Muschietti, The Flash follows Barry Allen who uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod (Michael Shannon) has returned and threatens

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MagicOrder4issue5Review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Magic Order Volume 4, #5

“…you really need to get over yourself.” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 4, issue #5. Warning, some pretty significant spoilers below. This issue was a heck of a chance for Dike Ruan and Giovanna Niro to show off their skills. The fight in the arena, with increasingly horrific monsters springing up

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TransformersRiseOfTheBeastsReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

Directed by Steven Caple Jr, Transformers Rise of the Beasts follows Optimus Prime (Peter Cullen) and the Autobots who take on their biggest challenge yet when they detect the signal of an ancient Cybertronian artifact with the ability to return them to their homeworld of Cybertron. They find out they aren’t the only ones searching

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