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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Free Guy

Directed by Shawn Levy, Free Guy takes place in the open-world video game Free City where Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is an NPC working as a bank teller. Thanks to a code developed by programmers Millie (Jodie Comer) and Keys (Joe Keery) inserted into Free City by the publisher Antwan (Taika Waititi), Guy becomes self-aware of

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Upright Women Wanted

She belonged with the Librarians, and she would prove it. My first experience with Sarah Gailey’s Wild West novellas was the Hugo-nominated hippo-themed caper, River of Teeth. Gailey’s latest Hugo-nominated novella, Upright Women Wanted, is also set in the Wild West, although a lot further removed from 1890’s Louisiana than you may at first realize.

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Green Knight

Directed by David Lowery and based on Arthurian Legend, The Green Knight tells the story of Sir Gawain (Dev Patel), King Arthur’s reckless and headstrong nephew, who embarks on a daring quest to confront the eponymous Green Knight (Ralph Ineson), a gigantic emerald-skinned stranger and tester of men. Gawain contends with ghosts, giants, thieves, and

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Transformers #33

“Aaah, Cybertron. What’s become of you? All this chaos, all this destruction. I love it.” Keep reading for a review of Transformers #33. Minor spoilers below. So Swindle’s being Swindle, always out to make a profit from every situation, which is why he’s getting Decepticons drunk and talkative so he can squeeze out some useful

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries Book 5)

“Overse added, “Just remember you’re not alone here.” I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that’s where 90 plus percent of my problems are.” Martha Wells has already received a Hugo Award for two of the novellas in her Murderbot Diaries series, so it’s no surprise

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Transformers War for Cybertron: Kingdom

Brought to us once again by Roosterteeth and Netflix, Transformers War For Cybertron returns with the final chapter “Kingdom”. Having crash-landed on Earth, the Autobots and Decepticons are confronted by two rival Cybertronian factions from a future that their conflict has inadvertently created, as the heroes and villains of the classic BEAST WARS series make

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TheSuicideSquadReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Suicide Squad (2021)

Directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad is the follow up to 2016’s Suicide Squad with the return of Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), who once again assembles Task Force X for a new suicidal mission on the remote and dangerous island of Corto Maltese. Their mission is to search and destroy a Nazi-era prison and

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Old

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan and based on the novel Sandcastle, Old follows a family on a tropical vacation after they discover that the secluded beach they are relaxing on for a few hours is somehow causing them and others to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day. With a race against

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Loki Season 1

After stealing the Tesseract during the events of Avengers Endgame in another timeline, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) finds himself called before the TVA, the Time Variance Authority, which exists outside of time and space. Loki is forced to answer for his crimes against the timeline and is given a choice: face deletion from reality or assist

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