Category: Reviews

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Reviews
Leland Pierce

Review: Cruella

Disney’s newest live-action adaption is Cruella, based on characters created by Dodie Smith’s 1956s novel, 101 Dalmatians, and Disney’s animated 1961 feature of the same name. The movie serves as a prequel to Cruella before she became the most infamous Disney villain who would stop at nothing to skin puppies to make herself a coat

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – A Quiet Place Part 2

Directed by John Krasinski, A Quiet Place Part 2 continues directly after the first film and follows the Abbott family who, after discovering the weakness of the creatures, must now face the terrors of the outside world as they fight for survival in silence. They are forced to venture into the unknown and they soon

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Relentless Moon (A Lady Astronaut Novel)

The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s “A Lady Astronaut” series is up for a Hugo award this year, and it’s an absolute cracker. Book One told the story of a world-ending disaster and humanity reaching for the stars from the point of view of the women fighting for their place aboard the spaceships. Book

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Previews
Leland Pierce

The Alienist: Angel of Darkness

The Alienist: Season 2 stars Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl, Dakota Fanning, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Marcus Isaacson, Lucius Isaacson, Robert Ray Wisdom, Ted Levine, Melanie Field, and Rosy McEwen. Stalking Your Streets Now, the Blu-Ray & DVD is now Available! The gripping, turn-of-the-century prestige thriller follows Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), a brilliant and obsessive “alienist” in the controversial new field of treating mental

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Transformers #29

“If you cannot save the Titans for me, can you at least bring them down? Two months delayed but it’s finally here: keep reading for a review of Transformers #29. (Some spoilers below.) We’ve got two major events/revelations this issue. The first is that Optimus received Starscream’s suggestion to “ask Perceptor about Titansparks,” so he

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Army of the Dead

Directed by Zack Snyder, Army of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that left Las Vegas in ruins, walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of town, is approached by casino boss Bly Tanaka (Hiroyuki

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Iron Man

{🚨SPOILERS🚨}: Directed by Jon Favreau, Iron Man follows a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), who conducts weapons tests overseas until terrorists kidnap him to force him to build one of his most devastating weapons. Instead, he builds an armored suit and upends his captors. Returning to America, Stark refines the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Empress of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle Book 1)

You will never remember the great if you do not remember the small. Nghi Vo’s Hugo-nominated debut novella is set in a fantasy-version of Imperial China, and tells the story of an exiled Empress and her loyal, rabbit-toothed servant girl. Both of them were too lowly to be kept around the palace, but too important

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2

{🚨SEMI-SPOILERS🚨}: Directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 follows Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) and his fellow Guardians as they continue their adventures across the cosmos. In their most recent mission they were hired by a powerful alien race, the Sovereign, to protect their precious batteries from invaders. When it is discovered that

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