So, despite the very real superhero fatigue I’ve felt since Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame sent the purple-thumb-faced Thanos into his second, more permanent, retirement (although, they’ve opened the pandora’s box known as the multiverse, so shenanigans are always at the ready to axe both stakes and consequence), I saw the new Superman movie in theaters. Turns …
It’s been a busy time over here, with the many fantasy and sci-fi stories I’ve read or watched or played stacking up like cordwood near an unlit campfire. So, grab a chair and take a seat, because this fire is about to be lit, and these stories burn bright and quick. As we watch the …
On most occasions (with anime/manga being the exception), I tend to read the written version of a story prior to viewing its adaptation. Not so in this case. I actually wasn’t even aware Mickey 17 – a recently released science fiction film directed by Bong Joon Ho with Robert Pattinson as its lead – started …
Ok, I admit. The title is a bit of a mislead as I haven’t actually watched Rebel Moon. I’d been tracking its development, watching teasers as they trickled through the grapevine to eyes and ears eager for Zack Snyder’s take on Star Wars. Netflix hoped they were eager anyway. I’m a fan of Star Wars …
I saw the Creator at the movie theatre last week. For those who haven’t seen it yet, I’ll keep away from any major spoilers. The premise is that AI development reached such a level that robots were, for a time, ubiquitous in society, perhaps as numerous as humanity. They lived alongside in an often servile …
Adaptations are on my mind. No real surprise there. We certainly have a profundity of them these days. Not that I’m complaining. I adore getting the chance to see that which was relegated to my mind’s eye given new form. In the recent past I’ve watched the new One Piece live action, the Cowboy Bebop …
Imagine a typical Star Wars movie or TV show. It probably has both a Jedi and a Sith in it, one or both members of the Skywalker family. Or perhaps these days it contains a reserved yet eminently capable bounty hunter with a heart of gold and a young, green Yoda-like creature in their care. …
I recently finished The Shadowed Sun by N. K. Jemisin, the second novel in her Dreamblood duology. Perhaps that is why romance in fiction is on my mind. Without naming names, though this probably still amounts to a bit of a spoiler, it employs the age old, and by all means effective, arc of enemies …
Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned. I just came back from the theater after watching the movie 1917, and to be honest I’m unsure where to start. My first thoughts were some of the same that crowd my head after watching any realistic war film. War is terrible, and the biggest tragedy of human nature is …
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