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
It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, it’s 1985’s Clue. The Netflix Watch Party app ended up being a little complicated, so we just set a
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,
LIONSGATE LIVE! A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES CELEBRATES THE COMMUNAL THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE WITH FOUR FRIDAYS OF FREE FLICKS Jamie Lee Curtis to Host as America Gathers Together for Four Lionsgate Classics Lionsgate Teams Up with Fandango, YouTube, and NATO to Help Furloughed Movie Theater Employees Across America “The Hunger Games,” “Dirty Dancing,” “La La Land,”
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
The Hugo Award finalists for 2020 have been announced! The convention (July 29 – August 2) will be online only, for obvious reasons. So there’s less than three months before the award ceremony, and between this year and the retro 1945 awards there are 186 separate finalists and I’ve read…two of the novellas, and a
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Things are progressing quickly in the five-part story about the missing Delta Flight 18713 and the escaped inmates of the Night Vale asylum. The Desert Otherworld is coming into play, and there’s a good chance that a mad pilot who can