Category: Media
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night: Small and Sharp
Before any more time goes by I’d like to review A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night—a strange, small, […]
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Is A New Hope (SPOILERS)
SPOILER ALERT! SERIOUSLY. SPOILERS. J.J. Abrams continuation/reboot of the venerable Star Wars franchise is exactly what we need […]
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Read This: A Manhattan Ghost Story
As I mentioned in my previous post, my first encounter with the late T.M. Wright was his 1984 novel […]
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Read This: The Last Vampire
The horror author T. M. Wright passed away on Halloween. By pure coincidence I had just reread his 1991 […]
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Read This : Blade of the Destroyer
Today, I’d like to review a work by a new author. The Last Bucelarii (Book 1): Blade of the Destroyer […]
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The Man in the High Castle: A Season One Review
The Man in the High Castle, Amazon’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s 1962 novel, is an intriguing, well-plotted spy […]
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Read This: The Stress of Her Regard
The Stress of Her Regard is a cheerfully well-written, rollicking, swashbuckling, action-and-garlic packed adventure, a sometimes-loopy page turner, and a very different view of vampires than is today’s standard.
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Read This: The Peripheral
The Peripheral happens in two futures—the first a resource-depleted one not far from our present, and the second a depopulated but vastly rich time about seventy years further on. Certain wealthy, second-future ‘continua enthusiasts’ utilize secret Chinese servers through which they can contact and manipulate the past for their own gain.
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Ash vs. Evil Dead: Deadites and Loving It
We are now three episodes into Ash vs. Evil Dead, and I think it’s time to review where it’s […]
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Chappie: A Soul in a New Machine
Set in the too-close-for-comfort near-future of 2016, Chappie is a take on artificial intelligence that focuses on emotion instead of intellect. According to his creator, Chappie is gifted with “proper, full artificial intelligence”—which, here, includes the ability to love.
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