The Best Aetherdrift Cards (5 of 5)
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The Magnus Protocol Reviews: “Compartmentalising”
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Friday Fiction: It Knows It’ll Win
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The Best Aetherdrift Cards (4 of 5)
Feb 26, 2025
Exit Strategy: Somehow Still Good Sci-Fi
Feb 24, 2025
Friday Fiction: There Are More Stars Than There Should Be
Feb 21, 2025
The Best Aetherdrift Cards (3 of 5)
Feb 19, 2025
The Best Aetherdrift Cards (2 of 5)
Feb 17, 2025
Friday Fiction: The Man Who Hated The Moon (Part 2)
Feb 14, 2025
The Best Aetherdrift Cards (1 of 5)
Feb 12, 2025
The Midnight Sky: A Bleak Ending
Feb 10, 2025
Friday Fiction: The Man Who Hated The Moon (Part 1)
Feb 7, 2025
Teaser Review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Feb 5, 2025
Paradise: One Of The Best Shows Around
Feb 3, 2025
Friday Fiction: Records of The Nightmare Slurry
Jan 31, 2025
The Fantastic Four: First Steps teaser is a fascinating look at the current cultural interests, and especially what Marvel has learned from its other projects. The aesthetic, from moment one, is so very distinct—and so very familiar.
Paradise is one of the best-written shows I’ve seen in a long time. It’s intricate without being confusing. Multi-layered without pulling away from its core storytelling. And gives answers to its many posed questions at a good enough pace that it’s always surprising that there’s another layer of mystery to uncover.
Hello, dear reader. Today’s story is another strange one. Another exploration of form and ideas.
Dark Harvest is a novella from 2006 I oopsed into reading because I wanted something short and spooky for October—and then only finished it a few days ago. And now, having discovered that it’s getting a film adaptation that appears to be trapped in some bureaucratic/logistical hell and will come out eventually, it seemed a perfect book to give a review.
Wicked (part one) is a lush, spectacular, wonderful experience of a movie. It captures the delightful energy of live theater and has so many incredible scenes. I’ve had several of its songs stuck in my head since I watched it, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I have a question for you, dear reader. A question of intent. Last time, I said that we would have a story without any blood. What did you think I meant by that?
Much has been said, no doubt, about the social satire inherent to Severance. It’s the most immediate aspect of the show—and only continues to become more aggressive as the series continues. But I am not the reviewer to talk about its accuracy to either the feelings inherent to such a type of work or the setting’s accuracy.
Before reading this review of Dune: Part Two, I urge you to look at my previous one. It simply saves us some time. The issues of Dune: Part One carry over—as does much of the praise. As is ideal for the second part of a two-parter, this feels like the natural continuation. The long play simply had an intermission. Dune: Part Two assumes you recently watched the previous film and explains little to nothing.
Last Friday Fiction, I said you’d get a “classic horror story” A classic horror story, in this case, means a truly gory cosmic horror tale with some gnarly (but mostly implied) body horror.
Dune: Part 1 is a long movie covering only part of an even longer book, with a ton of history behind it, and I am writing this without having read the book. In 2025. And, frankly, there’s so much baggage here that I am not equipped to talk about. You can tell it’s not a story written in the modern day.
Well, “Joy to the World” gave me a little more Doctor Who, but now I must wait, yet again. The new season won’t be starting for a while now—and all I’ll have is the trailers. Or, in this case, a teaser trailer. Which, as far as I can tell, just means it’s way shorter.
Hello, dear reader. This is a story about power. Howard has a lot of it now, and his experiences with it are strange and intense.
Too strange—and too intense, in fact.
