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llyzabeth

Oscar 2021 Nominations announced!

EDIT – Updated with all the winners! The nominations for the 2021 Oscars have been announced! See below for the full list, including links to movie reviews we’ve already posted. Check back often, as we’ll update the list with even more reviews to come. Best Picture The FatherJudas And The Black MessiahMankMinariNomadland – WINNERPromising Young

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Andrew Plein

Review – Logitech Circle View Doorbell

While I’m not sure how you, dear reader, feel about the subject of a Smart Home, for me it seems like that fabled dream, closely resembling that of Star Trek TNG. You enter your quarters, and call out “Computer” to run a bevy of actions. For myself and others that have gone the route of

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Pacific Rim: The Black, Season 1

Created by Legendary and Netflix, Pacific Rim: The Black returns us to world where monstrous Kaijus invade the Earth, seeking destruction on behalf of the aliens known as the Precursors. Humanity is desperately trying to fight off them off with their mechanical giants, the mighty Jaegers. This series takes place some time after events of

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Leland Pierce

REVIEW: Raya and the Last Dragon

Raya and the Last Dragon is the 59th Walt Disney Animated feature film to be released, and the first animated film to be released in 2021; the film’s release was simultaneously on Disney+ with their Premier Access and will become free to subscribers on June 4.  In the mystical world of Kumandra the lands are

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – WandaVision (full season)

Taking place after the events of Avengers Endgame, WandaVision follows Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany), who appear to be living the ideal suburban life in the town of Westview, trying to conceal their powers. (This despite the fact that Vision was killed by Thanos in Infinity War.) But as they enter new

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Chaos Walking

Directed by Doug Liman and based on the book series of the same name, Chaos Walking takes place in the not-too-distant future, where a young man named Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) lives on an alien planet that was colonized by humanity, and he soon discovers Viola (Daisy Ridley), a mysterious girl who crash lands on

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children Book 6)

“Welcome to the Hooflands, ” said Pansy. “We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.” Seanan McGuire is up to Book 6 in Wayward Children, the series where children stumble across one of an infinite number of doors, each one opening to a different magical realm. This installment features the

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Tom & Jerry

Directed by Tim Story, Tom & Jerry follows the “legendary rivals” as they take their slapstick shenanigans to New York City. Jerry moves into New York City’s finest hotel, the Royal Gate Hotel, on the eve of the wedding of the century, which forces the desperate event planner (Michael Pena) to hire Tom to get

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Sci-Fi Stories for Black History Month

The Chicago Review of Books website this month published a fantastic resource, 28 Stories You Can Read Online For Black History Month. The items on the list cover a whole range of genres, and include links both to the story and to the collections they come from. This week I decided to take a look

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