Category: Reviews

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Jurassic World (2015)

Directed by Colin Trevorrow, Jurassic World is set 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park and takes place on the same fictional island of Isla Nublar. A successful theme park of cloned dinosaurs, dubbed Jurassic World, has operated on the island for years, bringing John Hammond’s original dream to fruition. The park plunges into

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Saga #59

Maybe there’s a reason the word “collaborator” has become synonymous with “war criminal.” Keep reading for a review of Saga #59. Some spoilers below. First off, the art for this issue was lovely as always, but also dynamic and, in places, really funny. I absolutely love the panel of the frog jumping at the other

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: A Spindle Splintered

Romantic girls like Beauty and the Beast; vanilla girls like Cinderella; goth girls like Snow White. Only dying girls like Sleeping Beauty. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo awards this year, adding to a long list of nominations for her novels and short stories. In her Hugo-nominated novella this year, young Zinnia Grey

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Top Gun: Maverick

Directed by Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick follows Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) who after more than 30 years of service is where he belongs, one of the Navy’s top aviators, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. However, that all changes when Maverick

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky Book #2)

“We are but fevered stars. Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.” – Obregi Book of Flowers Rebecca Roanhorse returns us to Meridian, the fantasy version of Pre-Columbian Americas in the second book of her “Between Earth and Sky” series. Book 1 ended with the slaughter of the entire ruling body

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Firestarter (2022)

Directed by Keith Thomas and based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Firestarter follows a couple who desperately try to hide their daughter, Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for turning fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Her father (Zac Efron)

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Top Gun (1986)

Directed by Tony Scott, Top Gun takes place in the Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School, where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills, and follows hotshot fighter pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) after he is sent to the school. His reckless attitude and cocky demeanor puts him at odds with

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Light From Uncommon Stars

Souls are cheap. The trick is finding the right soul. Katrina Nguyen, a transgender teenager from a very unaccepting family, decides that her latest beating is one beating too many. She climbs out of her family’s apartment and boards a bus to Los Angeles, bringing along not much more than her laptop and her treasured

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Directed by Sam Raimi, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness takes place a few months after the events of Spider-Man No Way Home and follows Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) who encounters a new adversary that he alone cannot defeat. Strange must gain the help of both old and new mystical allies in order to

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