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Disclosure Day Review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Disclosure Day

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Disclosure Day follows a targeted whistleblower, Daniel Kellner (Josh O’Connor), who possesses drives containing classified files proving the government and a shadowy corporation called Wardex have covered up extraterrestrial contact for decades. Teaming up with rogue operatives and a television meteorologist with mysterious abilities, Daniel races against time to bring about

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Hugh Verheylewegen June 15, 2026 No Comments
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llyzabeth

Review – Brigands & Breadknives

Fans of Travis Baldree’s Legends & Lattes (deliciously cozy fantasy) and Bookshops & Bonedust (also cozy fantasy, but with more zombies) will find a lot to like about Brigands & Breadknives, even though it’s the least cozy of the trilogy. On purpose! Setting up a coffee shop or rescuing a struggling bookstore were fun ideas

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llyzabeth June 15, 2026 No Comments
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Kathryn Adams

2026 Hugo Awards – Three More Novelettes

Two of the remaining three novelettes this year could be considered dystopian (depending on how negatively you view the universe of Martha Wells’s Murderbot series), and the third takes place in America in what could be called the Golden Age, just not for everyone. “Never Eaten Vegetables” – H.H. Pak She glides through the night

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Kathryn Adams June 9, 2026 No Comments
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Spider-Noir Season 1

Created by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot, Spider-Noir follows Ben Reilly (Nicolas “Fucking” Cage), an aging, down-on-his-luck private investigator, who grapples with his past life as the only superhero in 1930s New York City, the Spider. When an exceptional case comes his way, Ben must become the Spider once more. Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse and

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Hugh Verheylewegen June 2, 2026 No Comments
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Kathryn Adams

Review: Cinder House

How does a house, lacking flesh, feel fury? I went into Freya Marske’s novella completely cold, and I thought maybe this was going to be a humorous retelling of Cinderella. Ha ha, a poor house that has to slave away for its evil stepmother and two evil stepsisters, how droll. Nope. This particular retelling is

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Kathryn Adams June 2, 2026 No Comments
TheBOys Season 5 Review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Boys Season 5

Helmed by Eric Kripke, The Boys Season 5 follows the Boys reuniting with Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), who still possesses the virus capable of killing all Supes in the world, to join forces one last time to try to end Homelander’s reign once and for all. In a desperate attempt to survive and maintain control

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Hugh Verheylewegen May 26, 2026 No Comments
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Kathryn Adams

2026 Hugo Awards Novellas: The River Has Roots, and Murder By Memory

Let’s take a break from hard-hitting topics for a while and bring in some frikkin’ whimsy. The novellas by Amal El-Mohtar and Olvia Waite have wildly different settings: a small town on the border of Fae and the banks of a river where the water is highly-concentrated magic, versus a detective story in space. But

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Kathryn Adams May 26, 2026 No Comments
TheMandalorianAndGrogu Review
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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Mandalorian and Grogu

Directed by Jon Favreau, The Mandalorian and Grogu continues the journey of Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal) and his apprentice Grogu as they are enlisted by the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt (Jeremy Allen White) in exchange for vital information from the Hutt Clan on a New Republic target. They soon discover things are

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Hugh Verheylewegen May 22, 2026 No Comments
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Kathryn Adams

Review: Three Hugo-Nominated Novelettes

Catherynne Valente, Scott Lynch, and Cameron Reed all have novelettes up for a Hugo Award this year, and the scope of the conflict in each of them is wildly different. The first three novelettes I’m reviewing range from a dystopian story of generational wealth-hoarding running smack into one girl’s complicated relationship with her own body,

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Kathryn Adams May 19, 2026 No Comments