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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

Directed by Tom McLoughlin, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the sixth installment of the slasher franchise that follows Tommy Jarvis (Thom Mathews) years after he killed the infamous hockey-masked murderer Jason Voorhees (C.J. Graham) with the intensity of the experience landing him in a mental institution. To end his torment and achieve

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Ahsoka

{🚨SPOILERS🚨} Helmed by Dave Filoni, Ahsoka is set after the fall of the Empire and the events of The Mandalorian, following the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy. She meets up with old allies and confronts new enemies in a race to find the

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Kathryn Adams

Review: Psyche and Eros

“What is it that makes a true hero?” The Hugo award ceremony isn’t until October 21st, so I’m going to take a quick break to read something I bought months ago. Luna McNamara’s debut novel retells the myth of Eros and Psyche, with some very important differences. “Your child will conquer a monster feared by

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Saga #66

“I can’t tell you how sick I am of people’s pathetic last words.” After a long three months Saga’s back, keep reading for a review of Saga #66. Warning, some spoilers below. I had to doublecheck the page count when I finished this issue, because I felt like I read it in two minutes. It’s

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Ogres

They’ve always been there, your Masters the ogres. The start of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Hugo-nominated novella has all the makings of a Robin Hood-style adventure. The beloved but mischievous son of the village headman befriends the merry band of outlaws who live in the woods (away from the control of the wealthy Landlords) and who dream

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Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Dumb Money

Directed by Craig Gillespie, Dumb Money follows the insane true story of a group of rag-tag investors from the Reddit page called r/WallStreetBets, who banded together to put the squeeze on at least two hedge funds that had bet that GameStop shares would fall. The GameStop short squeeze of 2021 was probably one of the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Legends and Lattes

After twenty-two years of adventuring, Viv had reached her limit of blood and mud and bullshit. An orc’s life was strength and violence and a sudden, sharp end – but she’d be damned if she’d let hers finish that way. It was time for something new. Once upon a time, in the long-ago era known

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: 2023 Hugo Award Finalists – Two Short Stories and a Novella

It’s an interesting situation with this year’s fiction nominations. We’ve already seen that one of the nominated novelettes isn’t available in English. It turns out that four of the nominated short stories are also only available in Chinese. I haven’t been able to find a reason why these either weren’t released in English or weren’t

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

God had entrusted her father with the labor of perfecting creation and delivering us all from sin, and thus the doctor had created the hybrids. Dr. Moreau was therefore a prophet, a holy man. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Hugo-nominated book takes a new look at H.G. Wells’s classic. The island setting has now been moved to a

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