Category: Reviews

AndorReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Andor

Created by Tony Gilroy, Andor takes place five years before the events of Rogue One and follows an ensemble cast of characters when a Rebel Alliance is forming in opposition to the Galactic Empire. One of these characters that connects them all is Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), a thief who becomes a revolutionary and eventually

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – I Hate Fairyland #1 (2022)

(Heads up: spoilers below for the previous series!) Four years ago Gertrude, the psychopathic 30-something stuck in the body of a cute little six-year-old, finally escaped Fairyland. Decades of some truly horrific (and most of the time completely unnecessary) bloodshed were over, and Gert finally got to go home. …where she wakes up as a

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BlackPantherWakandaForeverReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever follows Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett), Shuri (Letitia Wright), M’Baku (Winston Duke), Okoye (Danai Gurira), and the Dora Milaje (including Florence Kasumba) as they fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace

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WendellAndWildReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Wendell & Wild

Directed by Henry Selick and produced/co-written by Jordan Peele, Wendell & Wild follows the story of Kat (Lyric Ross), a troubled teen haunted by her past, who must confront her mischievous demons, Wendell & Wild (played by Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) to start a new life in her old hometown and attempt to save

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: What Moves the Dead

The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do. It’s a day early for my usual weekly book review, but Halloween is the perfect day to review a new(ish) novella by T. Kingfisher that was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher”. It’s not one of my favorite Poe short stories

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MagicOrder3 issue4 review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Magic Order Volume 3, #4

“…I’m just not feeling myself at the moment and I’ve done something really bad again…” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 3, issue #4. Minor spoilers below. Two storylines are put on the back burner this issue: Sammy Liu’s questionable use of his powers, and Leonard and Salome’s hunt for “The Puzzle”

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TalesOfTheJediReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Tales of the Jedi

Created by Dave Filoni, Tales of the Jedi is an animated anthology series featuring Jedi in the prequel era of Star Wars. The six episodes are split into two “paths”: the first following Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein) across various points in her life, and the other depicting a young Count Dooku (Corey Burton) before his

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance Book 3)

She will bring death and destruction to all the enclaves in the world. The final book of Namoi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy picks up where Book 2 left off. Galadriel “El” Higgins, destined to be a force of destruction, has instead helped to save her fellow students, from the most terrified freshman to every well-connected graduate.

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BlackAdamReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Black Adam

Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, Black Adam takes place in the country of Kahndaq and follows the story of Teth Adam (Dwayne Johnson) who was bestowed with the almighty powers of the gods. But after using these powers for vengeance, he was imprisoned, becoming Black Adam. Nearly 5,000 years have passed and Black Adam has gone

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