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
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
“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
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)
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
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
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
Magnetic and surreal, d’Errico’s arresting subjects, their piercing eyes and dynamic colors, are often juxtaposed with the cute, creepy, bizarre, and the otherworldly. I reviewed Camilla d’Errico’s hardback Rainbow Children back in 2016 (short version: I loved it) so I was delighted to see her new book Dappled Daydreams was just released by Dark Horse.
Three more novelettes, these ones by Caroline M. Yoachim, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and John Wiswell, and I can safely say that these are quite a bit darker in tone than the first three. We’ve got a dreamlike trip through time as seen by the eyes of an immortal painter (immortality in this case granted by