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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Swordheart

Middle-aged Halla has just inherited her great-uncle’s entire fortune, and now she has to seek legal help to defend her inheritance from her in-laws, who are contesting the will. And if you don’t think that’s enough peril to set a fantasy story around, then you haven’t met Halla’s in-laws. Deciding that suicide is the least-worst

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Review – Free Solo

Next up in reviews of Oscar-nominated films, guest writer Dennis Larsen has a look at Free Solo. Alex Honnold is a prolific free climber. He has taken on some of the worlds most difficult climbs and free climbs but there is still one on his list that he has yet to check off: Yosemite’s El

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Andrew Plein

Review: Reign of the Supermen

DC Animated gave us quite a surprise in terms of quality when it comes to the Death Of Superman movie. I had zero interest in watching the flick – well until I found out that Peter Tomasi wrote it. If you haven’t seen the film please do so immediately, there is so much heart and

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llyzabeth

Oscar 2019 Nominations announced!

The nominations for the 2019 Oscars have been announced! See below for the full list, including links to movie reviews we’ve already posted. Check back often, as we’ll update the list with even more reviews to come.

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Mass Effect – Annihilation (Andromeda #3)

“I’m not accusing anyone, I’m trying to show you that we don’t even know what we don’t know.” Award-winning author Catherynne Valente gets to play in the Mass Effect sandbox with the latest novel in the Andromeda series. This installment is something of a buddy cop/murder mystery/sci-fi disaster movie. In space. The Quarian ark Keelah

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Gaming
Jordan Pollock

Review: YIIK: A Post Modern RPG

It was the Spring of 1999 when protagonist Alex returned home after graduating from college. Although set on leading a normal life, Alex is thrust into a psychedelic world of alien creatures, plastic androids, and a cat with a Salvador Dali mustache. Inspired by classic JRPGS like Earthbound and Wild Arms, YIIK: A Post Modern RPG looks to

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Catwoman #7 and The Batman Who Laughs #2

One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to keep on top of my comic book reading (I know I know, it should be “eat more vegetables” and “take that Javascript class” but I like resolutions I know I’ll keep) so this week I’m doubling up: see below for a review of Catwoman #7 and The

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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