Directed by Ryan Coogler, Sinners follows twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan) who try to leave their troubled lives behind by returning to their hometown to start again through a jukebar they purchase, only to discover that an even greater evil in the form of ferocious vampires arrive to welcome them. Ryan Coogler has proven himself
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SEMI-SPOILERS}: Helmed by Dario Scardapane, Daredevil: Born Again follows Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, who is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York following the events of Hawkeye and Echo. When their past
I’ve got about eighteen weeks to post reviews of twenty-four Hugo Award nominees in the main fiction categories (well, twenty-one, since I’ve already reviewed one novel and two novellas), so I’m gonna start with a two-fer. This week’s review is for Ray Nayler’s haunting novella of memory and war, and another adventure featuring Nghi Vo’s
I think back to something Qin Zheng once said: “Every oppressor, through their denial of humanity, sows the seeds of their own destruction.” Here we are. The seeds that bloomed. (Warning: Massive spoilers for the end of Iron Widow.) The second book in Xiran Jay Zhao’s (ongoing, yay!) Iron Widow series picks up exactly where
It’s that time of year! The nominees for the 2025 Hugo Awards have been announced, and this year I’ve actually read and reviewed three of the Hugo nominees, plus one of the Lodestar nominees for best YA novel! Check out the full list below (which will be updated on a regular basis as I get
Directed by Jared Hess, A Minecraft Movie follows Four misfits: Garrett “The Garbage Man” Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers), and Dawn (Danielle Brooks), who find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To
It took a moment for her rage to clear enough for the words to actually register: byt’ uveren. A beat later, she realized why that looked so strange, apart from words having no business on the back of a turtle. They were written in Russian. Be sure. In Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series there are
Directed by Alex Scharfman, Death of a Unicorn follows Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) and his teenage daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) who accidentally hit a unicorn while en route to a crisis management summit with Elliot’s boss, Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant), and his family. The Leopolds seize the unicorn, and their scientists discover that the
{SEMI-SPOILERS}: Helmed by Robert Kirkman, Invincible Season 3 follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), three months after his battle with Angstrom Levy, who has been training under Cecil’s supervision to gain enough strength to compete with and prepare for incoming Viltrumite threat. But everything changes as Mark is forced to face his past, and his future,