Category: Reviews

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Reviews
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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Books
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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Reviews
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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Books
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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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Black Panther

Directed by Ryan Coogler, Black Panther follows T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) who returns home to the African nation of Wakanda to take his rightful place as king, after the death of his father (John Kani). T’Challa’s mettle as king and as Black Panther is tested when a face from his father’s past suddenly appears and draws

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Intuitionist

I was looking for something new to read for Black History Month, and one name that kept coming up was Colson Whitehead, award-winning author of several novels including The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. Since I haven’t had a chance to read any of Whitehead’s books up until now, I decided to start with

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Strange Academy #8

“Please stop shooting at the indigenous creatures, Rocket!”“Then tell the indigenous creatures to stop trying to eat us!” I don’t know what distribution shenanigans caused us to get a new issue seven days after we got the last issue, but I’m not complaining! Keep reading for a review of Strange Academy #8. Small spoilers below

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Far Sector #10

Two of my favorite series had new issues released today, and one of them just had a new issue last week too! (I’m so spoiled, I’m going to start expecting this kind of content every week, I want all the beautiful artwork ALL OF IT.) First up, keep reading for a review of Far Sector

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