It’s been 5 years since George Miller graced us with the return of the road warrior on the big screen, in perhaps the best installment of his post apocalyptic series: Mad Max Fury Road. The story follows a haunted and unhinged Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) traveling across the endless wasteland of the old world before
Ted Chiang is up for two Hugo awards this year, one novelette (“Omphalos”) and one novella (Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom). I was able to get ahold of the book they’re collected in, so I’m taking an easy week and just reading those two stories. Ha! Just kidding, it’s a short-story collection, of course
“…in my vast experience, anybody who says they’ve got everything under control… …is full of it.” We’re six issues in on a series about a woman who used to be a cop until she reported her coworkers for police brutality, and now she’s a Green Lantern on a planet who’s police force just opened fire
If we address stories as archaeological sites, and dust through their layers with meticulous care, we find at some point there is always a doorway. Alix E. Harrow is up for two Hugo Awards this year, one for the lovely short story “Do Not Look Back, My Lion” and one for The Ten Thousand Doors
Back in its day, at least, it would have been a monument to wealth and beauty. In the present it was a castle that had been killed. The Emperor of the First House (King of the Nine Renewals, the Necrolord Prime) has issued a summons to the other eight Houses. The heir to each House
Reviewer Hugh Verheylewegen has a look at Scoob, the latest incarnation of Scooby Doo. Directed by Tony Cervone, Scoob follows Scooby Doo and the gang on an all new mystery-solving adventure. Scoob was initially supposed to be newest theatrical release of the popular Scooby Doo franchise. With theaters still closed we had the movie given to us
Two of this year’s Hugo-nominated stories are only available via short-story collection (the same short story collection. C’mon, Ted Chiang, stop hogging the noms), so this week I’ll be reviewing a tale of an interstellar colony that sends an agent back to the ruined homeworld, a roundabout explanation for why a poet would write an
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War is the sequel to 2017’s Justice League Dark, the fifteenth and final film in the DC Animated Movie Universe (DCAMU) and the 38th film overall in the 38th DC Universe Animated Original Movies. Directed by Matt Peters and Christina Sotta, featuring the voice talents of Matt Ryan, Jerry O’Connell, Taissa
Reviewer Hugh Verheylewegen has a look at Capone, starring Tom Hardy. Directed by Josh Trank, Capone (originally titled Fonzo) chronicles the final days of notorious gangster Al Capone (played by Tom Hardy) as he succumbs to dementia and relives his past through tormenting memories, while also coming into conflict with the authorities. I have always had a