Movie reviewer Hugh Verheylewegen continues to give us ideas about what to watch while we’re staying at home, check out his review of HBO’s Bad Education. Directed by Corey Finley (Thoroughbreds), Bad Education follows the true story of a Long Island school superintendent, Frank Tassone, and his assistant, who are credited with bringing the district unprecedented
Next up on the Hugo finalists are two novellas, one set in outer space and other in a Cairo of the early 1900’s that looks very different from the one we know, what with the djinn and all. Click the jump to read reviews of stories by Becky Chambers and P. Djèlí Clark.
Guest writer Hugh Verheylewegen continues to give us ideas of what to watch while we’re staying at home, check out his review of Netflix’s Extraction. Directed by Sam Hargrave and produced by the Russo brothers, Extraction follows the story of a black-market mercenary with nothing to lose (Chris Hemsworth), who is hired to rescue the
TIMELINE: FIVE MINUTES TOO LATE, THIRTY SECONDS FROM THE END OF THE WORLD. Next up for the Hugo-nominations is Seanan McGuire’s novel Middlegame, something which I really should have read during last October’s Scary Books month, because oh boy does this ever qualify. The plan begins in 1886, with the brilliant alchemist Asphodel who’s going
Guest writer Hugh Verheylewegen continues to give us ideas of what to watch while we’re staying at home, check out his review of the brand new animated Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge. If you have known me long enough you would probably know that, next to Halo and Doom, Mortal Kombat is one of my
The original plan was to review the first of the Hugo-nominated novels this week. However, I’ve been enjoying the book so much that I want to take another few days to read it (check back later week for a review of that). Therefore I’m changing course and reviewing three of the Hugo-nominated novelettes instead. This
If there are two words that can describe this year’s nominees for Best Short Story, it would be “triumphant” and “bleak”. Every one of them features someone overcoming a trial, whether it’s living life on their own terms, or making the hard decision to sacrifice their life for others. These are all lyrical and fierce,
Not all heroes are human. Togo is the story about two key figures in the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska, in which dog-sled teams relayed to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions over nearly 828 miles to save the Alaskan town of Nome from an epidemic. The two key figures are Leonhard Seppal,
Stephen’s god died a little after noon on the longest day of the year. Paladin’s Grace has a hell of a first line. I finished reading it last month, kept procrastinating about writing a review, and then decided it’d been so long I needed to reread it in order to write a decent review. If