Fantasy
Marvel Rising: Initiation Is So Much Better
Marvel Rising: Initiation is one of the short, like micro short, series that are set in the same universe as… Read More
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors Barely Explore Its Own Themes
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors is a Marvel movie you’ve likely never heard of before. I hadn’t. It’s a movie about… Read More
Float: An Impactful Tale Of Parenting
Float marks the last of the currently available SparkShorts that are solidly within the science fiction/fantasy genre. What I’ve seen… Read More
Wind: You’re Going To Cry So Much
Wind is even better than Smash and Grab, and that’s saying a lot. SparkShorts, it turns out, are some of… Read More
Dawn of the Nugget: A Slap-Stick Dystopia
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is inescapably a nostalgia grab of a movie, relying on people like me and… Read More
It Came From The Archives “Klaus: Instant Christmas Classic”
Klaus is a heartwarming, magical, wonderful film that does what the best Disney and Pixar movies manage and is instantly… Read More
It’s Magic Systems All The Way Down
Almost all “speculative” fiction is fantasy fiction. Horror is fantasy. Most science fiction is science fantasy or just fantasy with… Read More
Elemental: Adorable And Thematically Complex
Elemental marks Pixar’s first romance-focused story since Wall-E, and as a fan of romance stories—yes, most people also find that… Read More
It Came From The Archives! “The Storage Papers: As Scary As The Magnus Archives?”
Before listening to The Storage Papers, I never thought a podcast could scare me as much as The Magnus Archives.… Read More
The Legacy Saga: Generic Epic Fantasy
The Legacy Saga taught me an interesting lesson about tropes, genre conventions, and storytelling methods that I simply cannot enjoy.… Read More