Category: Reviews

BikeridersReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Bikeriders

Directed by Jeff Nichols, The Bikeriders is set in the 1960s and it follows the rise of the Vandals MC, a Chicago outlaw motorcycle club. Seen through the lives of its members and their families, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a surrogate family for local outcasts into a violent organized

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Some Desperate Glory

“While Earth’s children live, the enemy shall fear us.” Kyr (Valkyr to, well, not her friends, since she doesn’t actually have any), has been raised to be the perfect soldier. One of the last of the genetically-tailored Warbreed, she’s faster, stronger, and a better fighter than almost everyone else on Gaea Station (the last holdout

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Bad Boys: Ride or Die follows Miami detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence), who are attempting to clear the name of their late Captain, Conrad Howard, after he is falsely accused of conspiracy. However, things take a dangerous turn that puts them on

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Previews
Leland Pierce

Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series

All 95 Episodes From The Emmy Award® Nominated Classic Sitcom Now available to own “Welcome Back, Welcome Back, Welcome Back!” Forthe first time ever, all episodes from the classic TV series are brought together in oneset with the release of Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete Series on DVD June11 th , available for purchase online and

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HitManReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Hit Man

Directed by Richard Linklater and inspired by the unbelievable true story, Hit Man follows Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), a strait-laced psychology professor who discovers he has a hidden talent as a fake hitman, including theatrically imitating his suspects with humorous costumes, accents, and mannerisms. He starts to assume false identities to entrap criminals for the

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Kathryn Adams

Review: “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” and “Seeds of Mercury”

Two of this year’s Hugo-nominated novellas are included in one short story collection, (Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction Writers). Both stories also feature Earth’s attempt to seed life on another planet, but in completely different ways. Neither attempt goes to plan, and it’s left up to the reader to

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RoadHouse2024Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Road House (2024)

Directed by Doug Liman, Road House follows a troubled Ex-UFC fighter named Elwood Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems. The 1989 original film may have not been exactly cinematic gold by any means but it

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Watchers

Directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, The Watchers follows a 28-year-old artist named Mina (Dakota Fanning) who gets stranded in an expansive, untouched forest in western Ireland. Upon finding shelter, she unknowingly becomes trapped alongside three strangers who are watched and stalked by mysterious creatures each night known as the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

“Men find it easier to believe they have been swindled by a witch than outwitted by a woman.” From the grand storytelling tradition of Sinbad the Sailor comes Shannon Chakraborty’s Medieval-era tale of Amina al-Sirafi. Sailor, adventurer, pirate, witch. Famous and infamous (depending on who you talk to) for her ability to fight, explore, steal,

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