We didn’t have time to recap the latest Night Vale this week, and we won’t be fast passing the latest episode of Lore Olympus for another few days, so it’s time for another Watch Party! Chiming in from three different states, this time we’re watching the very fun and often bonkers pre-Code musical Gold Diggers
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Abigail focuses on a group of kidnappers who capture and must watch over the daughter of a powerful underworld figure from whom they demand a $50 million ransom. However, they soon get more than what they bargain for when they realize that they are trapped inside with no
Sketch Party San Diego was back this week with a special Star Wars theme night. Artists filled the tables at the Whistle Stop Bar in South Park and turned out tons of fantastic Star Wars themed drawings. Check out the gallery, which features a fraction of the work (we left at 10pm and some artists
Created by John Whittington and Toby Ascher, this series follows Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) who is getting used to life on earth following the events of Sonic the Hedgehog 2. He ends up going on a journey of self-discovery as he agrees to train Deputy Sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) as his protégé and teach him
It’s the end of April, there’s less than fifteen weeks until this year’s Hugo Award ceremony, and I’ve got nineteen entries in the main fiction categories to read. So what the heck, we’re doing two novellas this week instead of one. And I swear, I didn’t deliberately pick these two based on similar themes in
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! The Lore Olympus comic tackles a lot of issues about abuse: spousal, parental, generational. The latest two episodes are no exception, but they also don’t really need trigger warnings because the focus here is the response to that abuse. Rachel Smythe
Directed by Guy Ritchie and based on true historical events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare follows the story of Operation Postmaster, where the British military recruited a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against German forces behind enemy lines during World War II. Obviously, there have been numerous films that have adapted many true stories
Ann Leckie expands the universe of the Imperial Radch series (first introduced in the best-selling and Hugo-Award winning Ancillary Justice) in her latest novel Translation State. Three entirely separate lives intersect in a story about finding purpose, finding family, and finding out what it means to be human. We start with Enae Athtur; the book-jacket
The bestselling creators behind the three-time Hugo Award nominated, two-time British Fantasy Award winning series Die—Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Immortal X-men) and Stephanie Hans (Secret Wars 1602: Witch Hunter Angela, Black Bolt)—will reteam for their first ever original graphic novel collaboration to be titled, We Called Them Giants. First announced in an exclusive scoop