Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Just A Delight
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has no business being as good as it is. The movie was barely on my radar until I heard it had an Oscar nomination.
Friday Fiction: A Drop Through Space
Space is so big that it’s honestly hard to think about. Even our main character today, put in quite a unique circumstance, will only get to see a fraction of a fraction before her adventure is done.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: A Somber Superhero Movie
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is perhaps the Marvel movie most affected by a real-world event. There’s no way to even examine this movie without taking into account the tragic passing of Chadwick Boseman. It feels inadequate to say that his portrayal of the character gave joy to so many people and that he will be missed by the world.
It Came From The Archives: “The Forward Collection: Bits Of Sci-Fi Goodness”
It was an accident that I found out about the Forward collection on Amazon Prime—but I’m so happy I did. Turns out, if you have Prime, it’s free, and each short story is interesting in its own way. There’s six in all, so I thought I’d cover my thoughts on each of these tales.
Friday Fiction: Just Stepped Out for A Moment
So many people live with roommates, and it can sometimes be hard to know what everyone is up to each day. Different people come and go as errands and life shuffle around schedules and plans.
Trailer Review: Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
The thing about the Quantumania trailer isn’t that it’s not visually cool; it’s that it will probably be disappointing. I’ve repeatedly found with the Ant-Man movies that the concepts and potential visuals never pay off as well as they could.
Revisiting Kid Cosmic After The Big Finale
Almost two years ago to the day, I reviewed Kid Cosmic. I said I wasn’t planning on continuing the show. Well, apparently, I lied. While eating dinner one day, I pulled it up and basically binged.
Friday Fiction: Another Person In The Chasm
In the horror genre, there is a subsection sometimes called “weird horror.”
Strange World: An Adventure Story With Depth
Strange World wears its influences on its sleeve, and it informs a ton of the movie’s pacing, sense of adventure, and how it approaches danger in any scene. It’s based on old-school pulp comics, novels, and radio plays—even as someone who didn’t grow up with that being commonplace, it’s obvious.
It Came From The Archives “What Does ‘Originality’ Really Mean In Art?”
If you read many of my reviews, you might’ve noticed I have a bias. I’ve spoken about it before: I like unique, wild, and weird. Stories going out of their way to be meta, mind-bending, or commentate on current events or societal ills have often gotten positive reviews from me.
Friday Fiction: Buying An Apple In Hell
Sometimes, we have stories with titles that hint at the plot. It’ll give a vague understanding of what you might read.
This time, however, there’s no metaphor.
The School for Good and Evil: Almost Manages To Stick The Landing
The School for Good and Evil is a fun fantasy movie with a surprising amount of narrative depth while also being goofy, self-indulgent, and occasionally seriously questionable. I’ll spend some time ragging on it, mostly for its botched train wreck of an ending, but if you want an escapist movie full of fairy tale shenanigans, this has some promise. Read the whole review to see what I mean.
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