Category: TV & Movies

MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPart1Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 follows Ethan Hunt and the IMF team who must track down a terrifying new weapon in the form of an Artificial Intelligence, a threat to all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the

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LackadaisyScreening
Previews
llyzabeth

Secret Movie Club Presents First Public Screening of Animated Short LACKADAISY

We’ve been huge fans of Tracy Butler’s gorgeous webcomic Lackadaisy for years, (“a Prohibition-era St. Louis with a population of anthropomorphic cats” is right in our wheelhouse) and were thrilled when the animated short was released on YouTube. If you’re in the Los Angeles area, be sure to check out the public screening on August

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Books
Kathryn Adams

2023 Hugo Awards – The Finalists

Just as I was toying with posting a review of several random short stories (in hopes of getting one that might be nominated for a Hugo Award), the Chengdu Worldcon committee today posted the full list of finalists. I didn’t manage to guess more than one nominated work of short fiction (Catherynne Valente’s excellent novelette),

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TheWitcherSeason3Volume1Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Witcher Season 3, volume 1

Helmed by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, The Witcher Season 3 continues the story of Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri. Monarchs, mages, and beasts of the Continent are competing to capture Ciri so Geralt takes her into hiding, determined to protect his newly-reunited family against those who threaten to destroy it. Yennefer, who is entrusted with Ciri’s magical

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Previews
Leland Pierce

HAUNTED MANSION FEATURETTE 

“Welcome, Foolish Mortals,” a new featurette for Disney’s frighteningly fun adventure Haunted Mansion, is available now. The film opens in theaters on July 28.   Directed by Justin Simien, the film features an all-star cast ensemble cast including LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Chase W. Dillon and Daniel Levy, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Jared Leto

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IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestinyReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Directed by James Mangold, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny follows daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) as he races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller (Mads Mikkelsen), a former Nazi

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Leland Pierce

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of a Baboon Heart

The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of a Baboon Heart, which will be available to own on Digital on July 21, and Blu-ray on July 25. Doc’s latest invention will either bankrupt Team Venture or launch them to new heights, as Hank searches for himself, Dean searches for Hank, The Monarch searches for answers, and a

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SkullIslandReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Skull Island

Helmed by Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, Love and Monsters), Skull Island takes place 20 years after the events of Kong Skull Island and follows a group of well-meaning explorers who venture out to sea to rescue a girl named Annie (Mae Whitman) from the ocean. In doing so, they find themselves shipwrecked on the perilous Skull

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ElementalReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Elemental

Directed by Peter Sohn, Elemental is set in Element City, a world inhabited by anthropomorphic elements of nature, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story follows Ember (Leah Lewis), a tough, quick-witted, and fiery fire elemental, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow water elemental named Wade (Mamoudou Athi) challenges her beliefs

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