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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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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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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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DieComic16Review
Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Die #16

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

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2)

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

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

(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

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