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TheWildRobot Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – The Wild Robot

Directed by Chris Sanders and based on the book series of the same name by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot follows a robot named Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) who after getting shipwrecked on a deserted island must learn to adapt to its new surroundings. Building relationships with the native animals, Roz soon develops a parental bond

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LoveDeathAndRobotsSeason3
Previews
llyzabeth

Love, Death + Robots season 3: Trailer, episode descriptions, and director list

Eleven days till the latest season of Love, Death + Robots is here, check out the newest trailer plus the full list of episodes and their directors! Nine new stories. May 20. On Netflix.This marks executive producer David Fincher’s first foray into animation directing and recent Academy Award Winner and Emmy Winner Alberto Mielgo’s return

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PacificRimTheBlackSeason2Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Pacific Rim: The Black season 2

Created by Legendary and Netflix, Pacific Rim: The Black season 2 is the second and final season of the spin-off from the world of mechs and monsters. We once again follow the brave siblings Taylor (Calum Worthy) and Hayley (Gideon Adlon) who are still hoping to reach the safety of Sydney aboard Atlas Destroyer, the

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: R.U.R. “Rossum’s Universal Robots”

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image. For a slight change of pace this week, I’ll be reviewing a sci-fi classic. And by “classic” I don’t mean a Ray Bradbury novel from the 1950’s, or an Isaac Asimov short story from the 1940’s. I mean a 1921 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek, R.U.R, a

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Reviews
llyzabeth

A Conversation about Pacific Rim: Uprising (small spoilers)

Jada: That was the fastest two hour movie I’ve ever watched. Elizabeth: I’m exhausted! Jada: I feel like I just got done with a Zumba class. Elizabeth: I’m worn out but really peaceful and happy. Jada: I almost thought the movie wasn’t going to end where it ended, I thought there was more and I’m

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Review: Sea of Rust

The one truth you need to know about the end of a machine is that the closer they are to death, the more they act like people. And you could never trust people. The long-feared robot uprising finally happened, and humanity lost. More than lost actually; it’s been wiped out. The last human left was

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Review: Sleeping Giants

There I was, this tiny little thing at the bottom of a hole, lying on my back in the palm of a giant metal hand. Rose was only eleven years old when the ground opened underneath her. The rescuers who arrived on the scene found, not a sinkhole, but a fifty-foot square shaft, covered in

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Lost in Sci-Fi: Episode 14: Robot Love

This week Elizabeth and Leland get down and dirty and talk all about all the love being given to robots/AI. Yup, we go blue right up top. Because, why not. That’s the fun stuff. Whether it’s a sexy AI voice you fall in love with, a creepy sex-bot, or something as strange a having relations

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Movie Issues: Pacific Rim

In Pacific Rim, Sons of Anarchy take on giant monsters with the help of Heimdall, It’s Always Sunny… and everyone’s favorite, Hellboy! When giant monsters called Kaiju rise from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the world unites to create a line of defense called Jaegers. These equally giant robots are controlled by two pilots

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