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
{🚨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
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
{🚨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
We are in the area of a map marked with “Here Be Dragons.”In a land where there actually are dragons, that means: “Here be something significantly worse than dragons.” After a six month hiatus it’s back! Keep reading for a review of Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans’ Die #16. (Warning: some small spoilers for this
The third book in Mary Robinette Kowal’s A Lady Astronaut trilogy is up for a Hugo award this year and I…still hadn’t read Book 2, The Fated Sky. Time to get on that. It’s been nine years since a meteorite wiped out most of the Eastern US and destroyed the Earth’s climate. In that time
(Some small character spoilers follow.)Taking place six months after the events of Avengers Endgame, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier follows Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) as they team up together to take on new threats that could plunge an already fragile world into chaos. Their mission takes them across the
This year’s list of nominated short stories covers a pretty wide range of themes. In this group there are two re-told fairy tales, a portal to another world via a book-loaning program, ruminations on wholesale slaughter by a sentient house, a day in the life (well, week in the life) of a couple of brand
Directed by Ben Falcone, Thunder Force is a superhero “comedy” that follows two childhood best friends who reunite as an unlikely crime-fighting superhero duo when one invents a formula that gives ordinary people superpowers. And I’m just going to go straight to the point and say I fucking hated this film. Yes it’s just as