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Leland Pierce

Review: Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

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

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Capone

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

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Kathryn Adams

Review: A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

Empire was empire – the part that seduced and the part that clamped down, jaws like a vise, and shook a planet until its neck was broken and it died. Next up in the Hugo nominees is Arkady Martine’s novel of interplanetary intrigue, A Memory Called Empire. The book’s cover art of a lone figure

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Clone Wars: the final season

The saga has come to an end: reviewer Hugh Verheylewegen has a look at the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The final season of The Clone Wars has concluded, finishing a beloved, long running series that had rough beginnings but a solid finish. This is a bit different from my normal reviews as

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Bad Education

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

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Kathryn Adams

2020 Hugo Awards – Two Novellas

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.

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Extraction

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

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Middlegame

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

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Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge

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

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