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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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HalloweenEndsReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Halloween Ends

Directed by David Gordon Green, Halloween Ends takes place four years after the events of Halloween Kills and follows Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) hasn’t been seen since his last brutal rampage. Laurie, after allowing

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SheHulkAttorneyAtLawReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – She-Hulk: Attorney at Law season 1

Helmed by Jessica Gao, Kat Coiro, and Anu Valia, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law follows Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) who after getting in a car accident with her cousin, Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo), is contaminated by his blood, causing her to transform into a Hulk. Now known as She-Hulk, Jennifer tries to navigate her new complicated

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Series Book 3)

Our rule was, nobody knowingly left behind… The third book is out in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb trilogy…which is, surprise, no longer a trilogy! Midway through writing the final book in the series the author realized that she now had a character who needed an entire book devoted to her story. Book Two ended with

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Hellraiser2022review
Reviews
Guest Writer

Review – Hellraiser (2022)

Reviewer David Leninhawk returns with a look at the latest chapter in the Hellraiser universe. My biggest takeaway from this new Hellraiser film is that it is simply not fucked up enough. Sure, there’s good gore, and the Cenobite designs are cool and gnarly, but something that’s been missing from the Hellraiser films since the

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werewolfByNightReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Marvel’s Werewolf By Night

On a dark and somber night, following the death of their leader, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple. In a strange and macabre memorial to the leader’s life, the attendees are thrust into a mysterious and deadly competition for a powerful relic, a hunt

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MagicOrder3 issue3 review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – The Magic Order Volume 3, #3

“…this little girl is far from normal, and there’s a darkness in there I really don’t like…” Keep reading for a review of The Magic Order 3, issue #3. Spoilers below. Somehow I missed reviewing issue 2, so here’s a quick recap: we met Salome, the wife of the former head of the Order, Leonard.

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Half Life of Valery K

I seem to have made a real habit of reading a Natasha Pulley novel during a big summer vacation. So it’s not a huge surprise that our trip to Yosemite National Park this year matched up almost perfectly with the release of Pulley’s latest novel, The Half Life of Valery K. And this book was

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Samaritan 2022 Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Samaritan

Directed by Julius Avery, Samaritan follows the story of thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon Walton) who suspects that his mysterious and reclusive neighbor, Joe Smith (Sylvester Stallone), is actually a legend hiding in plain sight. Twenty-five years ago, Granite City’s superpowered vigilante, Samaritan, was reported dead after a fiery warehouse battle with his rival, Nemesis. Most

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