Category: Reviews

Coyote vs. Acme Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Coyote vs. ACME

Directed by Dave Green, Coyote vs. ACME follows the insane underdog journey of famous Looney Tunes icon, Wile E. Coyote. After decades of endless physical pain and failed gadgetry in pursuit of the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote decides he has had enough and hires a down-on-his-luck human billboard lawyer, Kevin Avery (Will Forte), to

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Death of the Author

“What better time to listen to a story than when the world is about to end?” It’s the last of the main Hugo-nominated fiction entries – just in time for the award ceremony on August 30 – and what a nominee to finish up with! Nnedi Okorafor’s novel is an Afrofuturist, robot apocalypse, wild family

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The Power Fantasy Volumes 1-3 review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

The Power Fantasy – volumes 1-3

“Mr. Lux, is everyone safe now?”“There’s six people with Superpowers on the planet. Of course not.” When I heard that volume one of Kieron Gillen’s The Power Fantasy had been nominated for a Hugo award, I picked it up. After reading it, I immediately picked up volumes two and three.  And then I put off

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My Adventures With Superman Season 3
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – My Adventures With Superman Season 3

Created by Jake Wyatt, Brendan Clougher and Josie Campbell, My Adventures With Superman Season 3 continues the story of the team of Clark Kent (Jack Quaid), Lois Lane (Alice Lee), Jimmy Olsen (Ishmel Sahid) and the newly added Kara Zor-El (Kiana Madeira) following their grand confrontation with Brainiac (Michael Emerson). Clark has truly become Superman

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XMen Season 2 Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – X-Men ’97 Season 2

Helmed by Matthew Chauncey, X-Men ’97 Season 2 follows the X-Men who are scattered across different eras in time—from Ancient Egypt to the far future—and must find their way back to the 1990s to stop the ancient tyrant Apocalypse (Ross Marquand), who emerges as a primary threat where he seeks to once again enforce a

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The End of Oak Street Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The End of Oak Street

Directed by David Robert Mitchell, The End of Oak Street follows the Platt family as they experience a mysterious cosmic event that uproots Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to an unknown location with prehistoric creatures. They discover that their survival now depends on sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Incandescent

It was an unfortunate truth that in the Venn diagram of ‘qualified to teach magic’ and ‘still alive,’ the overlap consisted almost entirely of people who had always been much too sensible to accidentally get eaten by a demon… “School of Magicians” is one of my favorite story tropes, right up there with “Let Me

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Batman Caped Crusader Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Batman: Caped Crusader

Created by Bruce Timm, Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 follows directly after the events of Season 1 where Batman (Hamish Linklater) and his allies are rallying together to dismantle Rupert Thorne’s criminal enterprise. But dethroning a reigning crime boss comes at a high price when new threats arise in the form of more violent villains

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SpiderMan Brand New Day Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Spider-Man: Brand New Day takes place four years after the events of No Way Home, and follows Peter Parker (Tom Holland), who is now living entirely alone, having voluntarily erased himself from the lives and memories of those he loves in order to protect them. Crime-fighting in a New York

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