Category: Reviews

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Kong: Skull Island

Ahead of seeing Godzilla vs. Kong, I’m rewatching the three most recent films featuring these two, and next up is Kong: Skull Island. {🚨SPOILERS🚨}: Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Kong: Skull Island is a new take on the iconic American monster, King Kong, and is the second installment of Legendary’s cinematic monsterverse. The story takes place

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Godzilla (2014)

Ahead of seeing Godzilla vs. Kong, I’m rewatching the three most recent films featuring these two, starting with 2014’s Godzilla. {🚨SPOILERS🚨}: Directed by Gareth Edwards, Godzilla is the 2014 reboot of the iconic king of monsters, and the first installment of Legendary’s cinematic monsterverse. The story is mostly from the perspective of the mysterious group

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Reviews
Leland Pierce

Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Well….it finally happened. The Snyder cut has been unleashed on us. Zack Snyder’s Justice League, often referred to as simply the “Snyder Cut,” is the 2021 directors’ version of the 2017 film, Justice League. This is his vision before he had to leave the directors’ chair for personal reasons. Like the 2017 theatrical release, this

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan Book 2)

To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles – this they name empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. Arkady Martine’s sequel to her Hugo-winning novel A Memory Called Empire picks up two months after the end of Book 1. The hardliners at Lsel Station have gotten exactly what they

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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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Reviews
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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Reviews
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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Reviews
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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Reviews
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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