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Sucker Punch – A Study On The State Of Comics

On June 6 By Ryan Lindsay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Sucker Punch is possibly the most spectacular failure I’ve seen in a while. It’s certainly ambitious, it’s got lots to praise, but there are far too many efforts falling flat or possibly offending for it …

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Enuka Okuma – “Cookie” – Interview

On June 3 By Elena Nola In Interviews, Movies & TV

Enuka Okuma is a young actress and now a director.  She will be back on ABC June 16th for season 2 of the summer series Rookie Blue “as the tough talking rookie cop, Traci Nash, that has …

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Notes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction – Chris Barzak Guest Blog

On June 3 By Chris Barzack In (special) Guest Blogs

I was going to write an essay describing the state of the speculative fiction genre, or describing my uneasiness with certain genre-oriented tenets, but I decided not to. I thought, then, that I might write …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Sansa Chapter 29

On June 1 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Next up they react to Chapter 29: Sansa. …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Chapter 28

On May 25 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 28, a Catelyn …

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Scalped: Unwanted – A Study In Flawed Characters

On May 23 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

Scalped is a phenomenal series, that’s not news to anyone whether you read it or not. The book gets good press like the ocean gets waves. Constantly. But just recently, I bought the latest trade, …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts: Eddard Chapter 27

On May 18 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the  newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 27, Eddard. If …

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Have a Drink on Ali Liebert on Harper’s Island – Interview

On May 16 By Elena Nola In Interviews, Movies & TV

I recently had the pleasure of putting some questions to Canadian actress Ali Liebert, who I (and my long-time Boomtron followers) know best as “Nikki the bartender” from Harper’s Island.  We talk about what her current …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Jon Chapter 26

On May 11 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 26, a Jon Snow …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Chapter 25

On May 4 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 25 – a …

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The Black Death Tries Avoiding the Plague Like Cliches

On May 3 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

The Black Death is about what you think it is.  Set near the beginning of the era of the bubonic plague, it follows a young monk out of his abbey while he serves as guide …

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Square Jawed Heroes – The Aesthetics of Who Is Jake Ellis?

On May 2 By Ryan Lindsay In Books & Comics

Comics are all about beautiful people. Find me a leading character who isn’t physically desirable and I’ll find you a comic I either don’t know or it isn’t selling. This is an aesthetic medium and …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Bran Chapter 24

On May 2 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 24- Bran. If …

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Fast Five Quits Reality, Goes Full Spectacle – Review

On April 30 By Eli Lipschutz In Movies & TV

Fast Five is great, superb summer entertainment, and a fitting commemoration for the 10th anniversary of the original The Fast and the Furious.  Justin Lin has fashioned himself into a groundbreaking action director in the vein …

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Tangled and the Death of the Disney Fairy Tale

On April 28 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Like Nietzsche with God, last fall Disney declared that the fairy tale was dead.  In this case, that is, Disney would no longer be making animated features out of the old stories. As a child …

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Thor – Movie Review: A Study In Universe Expansion

On April 26 By Ryan Lindsay In Books & Comics, Movies & TV

Marvel Studios have had a lot of success at the box office lately, especially with the Iron Man movies, and they obviously plan to have a lot more success in the coming years with a …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Daenerys Chapter 23

On April 25 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they react to Chapter 23- Daenerys. If …

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GrimDark: Loose Canon & Warhammer Race War Aaron Dembski-Bowden Guest Blog

On April 20 By Aaron Dembski-Bowden In (special) Guest Blogs, Books & Comics, Gaming

Aaron Dembski-Bowden bringing his cannons to canon. Also his warhammer.

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Universal War One… Stripp’d

On April 19 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

The Christian conception of redemption is an oddly commercial one. Grounded in Old Testament talk of ransoming the slaves, redemption is presented as a transaction through which Christians pay off their debt to God and …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Arya Stark Chapter 22

On April 18 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on. Today they move on to Chapter 22, an …

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I Saw the Devil: Feel Good Movie of the Year – review

On April 17 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

“The count’s frozen face was petrified and ashen and the blood still poured down the parallel cuts.  His eyes bulged wide, full of horror and pain.  It was glorious.  If you like that kind of …

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RETURN to CEREBUS, cried the Earth-Pig Born! A Cerebus Retrospective

On April 14 By Tobias J McGuffin In Books & Comics

Part the First Dave Sim is not dead.

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Tyrion Lannister Chapter 21

On April 13 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the  newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they move on to Chapter 21, a …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Ned Chapter 20

On April 11 By Elena Nola and Rachel Parker In Book Reviews, Game of Thrones

She’s new, she’s the re-re-reader.  She’s the newbie, she’s the spoilery vet.  Together they’re rereading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones and getting their POV on.  Today they move on to Chapter 20, a …

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I Sell the Dead | movie review

On April 11 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

I Sell the Dead is proof that not every IFC production is golden. It’s from a couple years ago now—2008, I think—and showed up on my Netflix recommendations page and sounded interesting enough to try. …

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An Essay into Exoticism – Notes from New Sodom

On April 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan on Exoticism in Literature, representation, cultural appropriation, and needed suspicion.

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Source Code | movie review

On April 2 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Mozart originally ended his opera Don Giovanni with Don Giovanni descending into Hell, his soul claimed by the devil, and later added a final ensemble to bring the performance away from the bleakness of that …

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Darkness, Take My Hand by Dennis Lehane Review

On March 30 By Brian Lindenmuth In Book Reviews

It becomes immediately apparent from the opening pages of Darkness, Take My Hand that Dennis Lehane has upped the ante since A Drink Before the War. Darkness, Take My Hand stands in stark contrast to A …

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The Lincoln Lawyer – review

On March 26 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Matthew McConaughey is one of those actors that you just love even though they don’t really do that many good movies.  He’s done a handful over the years, maybe three or four, and he’s a …

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Embedded by Dan Abnett – Review

On March 24 By Phillip Sobel In Books & Comics

Embedded is Abnett’s second independent novel for Angry Robot Books and one of the most original and compelling SF stories I’ve read in quite some time. In fact, I’m drawn to a grossly overused cliché to describe …

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Adjusting the Adjustment Bureau

On March 22 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

When a movie could have been good, but wasn’t, it becomes an even worse movie experience than if there had been no expectation, no potential, for anything better.  So it was with The Adjustment Bureau.  …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire: A Game of Thoughts | Bran Stark Chapter 17

On March 16 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

George R. R. Martin has us in Bran dreams in our reread this week and we are talking the heart of winter and other things We know nothing about.

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Sandman Meditations – A Game of You

On March 15 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney meets Barbie Adventures as he continues his Sandman Meditations in A Game of You.

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Iron Company by Chris Wraight – Review

On March 14 By Phillip Sobel In Books & Comics

I’ve been meaning to review this little beauty for a while, so, straight to business. Iron Company was Chris Wraight’s first Black Library novel and yet somehow managed to tick almost all the boxes for …

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 5

On March 9 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

At the end of volume one of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku: The Inner Chambers, the Shogun Yoshimune asks an elderly monk to explain to her “the logic of the present custom” of using male honorifics and …

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The Secret Cuisine – Notes from New Sodom

On March 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan examines science fiction and fantasy as genre and literature and speculative fiction’s place in culture.

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 4

On March 3 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

With the opening volumes of Ooku: The Inner Chambers, Fumi Yoshinaga attempts to answer the question of why it is that a culture’s values do not automatically keep step with its demographics.  For example, why …

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Show Me Your Lightning Bolt!

On March 2 By Tobias J McGuffin In Books & Comics

My burgeoning affiliation with the All New! All Different! Boomtron, with its Ooku reviews and its Sandman Meditations and its other various lovingly crafted commentaries, comes with the knowledge that I am lacking in … well, knowledge. …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Stark Chapter 16

On March 1 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Even in a fantasy world we join forces in our Game of Thrones reread to hate anyone who kills our puppies.

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 3

On February 26 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

Volume One of Fumi Yoshinaga’s Ooku: The Inner Chambers posed a question of both its world and ours.  That question was why there is such a thing as gender inequality when gender inequality is so …

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Animal Kingdom | movie review

On February 24 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Animal Kingdom is not a movie about the jungle but simply the law of the jungle: it’s kill or be killed, and only the strong survive. As the poster tagline claims, it is a crime …

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Run, Micro, Run

On February 24 By Jimmy Callaway In Comics

The notion of the sidekick has been a popular one in story-telling since time out of mind, yet it has most likely been brought to its highest prominence in superhero comics.  The majority of these …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Sansa Stark Chapter 15

On February 23 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Sansa Stark sees the world of Westeros in a much different way as her siblings and we dive into her first POV of this reread of A Song of Ice and Fire.

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Lynn Kurland Interview – Romancing the Nine Kingdoms

On February 23 By Elena Nola In Interviews

Lynn Kurland is the author of the Nine Kingdoms romantic fantasy series, as well as a best-selling romance author.  For all my love of dark, bloodspurting, knights who say–er, frak–fantasy, I also love the lighter …

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 2

On February 18 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

The First Volume of Ooku: The Inner Chambers ends with the newly installed Shogun asking a question of an elderly monk. This question, though apparently simple, cuts straight to the heart of her kingdom, her …

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A Glorious Waste of Time: Jordan Brady’s I Am Comic

On February 17 By Jimmy Callaway In Movies & TV

There’s an old Chinese curse that a lot of hacky writers use to set up the premises of their articles, and it is as follows: May you live in interesting times.  And for stand-up comedy, …

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Phonogram: Singles Club 4 – Konichiwa Bitches | Best Single Issue Comics

On February 16 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

The first Phonogram mini landed and people weren’t sure what to believe. Here was a comic about music that talked about lyrics and music instead of writing and art. It didn’t feature a cape in …

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Phonogram: Singles Club 4 – Konichiwa Bitches | Top Single Issues

On February 16 By Ryan Lindsay In Books & Comics

The first Phonogram mini landed and people weren’t sure what to believe. Here was a comic about music that talked about lyrics and music instead of writing and art. It didn’t feature a cape in …

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Ooku: The Inner Chambers – Volume 1 (2009)

On February 14 By Jonathan McCalmont In Books & Comics

0.  A Statement of Subject and Method Fumi Yoshinaga’s Eisner Award-nominated and James Tiptree Jr. Award-winning series Ooku: The Inner Chambers is a multi-volume manga series set in an alternative version of Medieval Edo Period …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire A Game of Thoughts | Catelyn Stark Chapter 14

On February 13 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Catelyn Stark does Catelyn Stark things and me and Elena just can’t in this chapter of our Game of Thrones reread.

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You’ve Been Punked – Sam Sykes Guest Blog

On February 11 By Sam Sykes In (special) Guest Blogs

If science fiction revolves around the question of “what if,” and fantasy revolves around the question of “what was,” then the question of “what is, but not so recently is, and more like what was, …

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A New Urban Fantasy – Sam Sykes Guest Blog

On February 11 By Sam Sykes In (special) Guest Blogs

If you’ve been at all concerned with the state of fantasy in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed a drastic shift in genres.  The market has split wildly into many segments, including that bastion …

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Justin Isis Interview On Manga Cafes, Convenience Stores, and the Taste of Human Flesh

On February 9 By Brendan Connell In Interviews

Justin Isis. He’s like Jonathan Franzen if Jonathan Franzen was better looking and could write. Like Paul Leppin meets Kawabata in an empty brothel with cold tile floors. His just-published book, I Wonder What Human …

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Too Cool (Or, how a moron ended up at the TCA’s)

On February 9 By Tobias J McGuffin In Movies & TV

Like Dante, I wasn’t even supposed to be there that day. The focus of all the attention was familiar: small waves of television and movie stars, wide-smiling studio execs, nervous-looking producers and show-runners, all surrounded …

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Sandman Meditations – Season of Mists

On February 8 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matthew Cheney visits Hell and Ragnarok following Gaiman in Season of Mists.

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Gareth Edwards’ Monsters – Notes from New Sodom

On February 7 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan on how strange Gareth Edwards is.

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Blue Valentine | movie review

On February 7 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Blue Valentine screened here at the NO Film Fest the same week Welcome to the Rileys, Black Swan, and 127 Hours did.  I did not end up seeing it due to a prior engagement the …

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L.E. Modesitt Jr. Interview + Imager Review

On February 6 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews, Interviews

L.E. Modesitt, Jr., is the best-selling author of several fantasy and science fiction series, and a name you can’t get through any bookstore’s SFF section without encountering.  I am only familiar with his work on the Imager …

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The King’s Speech | movie review

On January 27 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

The King’s Speech is a problematic movie for me.  On the one hand, it’s a really great underdog story, the acting jobs were fabulous, and it’s a movie about hope in a time of darkness…but …

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Being a Hack: Writing a Shared-World Novel – Erin M. Evans Guest Blog

On January 25 By Erin M. Evans In (special) Guest Blogs

Erin M. Evans takes a break from Forgotten Realms to bring you this.

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Dead Supermodels: The Photography Of Kaoru Izima | The Nail That Sticks Out

On January 16 By Cameron Ashley In Movies & TV

I love them when they are dead I want some cold-blooded women lying in my bed I love you when you are dead – Batmobile, “Dead (I Want Them When They Are Dead)” At first …

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The Dilemma | movie review

On January 16 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

I almost didn’t go see this movie for three reasons:  it was getting panned by Rotten Tomatoes (somewhere in the 20 percent’s when I checked, which is just shy of worst movie of the year …

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Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie | Review

On January 11 By Phillip Sobel In Gaming, Movies & TV

At last, the holy grail of Warhammer 40k fans the world over has arrived–a 40k movie! Penned by the master himself, Dan Abnett, produced by Codex Pictures and directed by Martyn Pick, it tells a …

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Nocturne by Syrie James Review

On January 4 By Elena Nola In Book Reviews

Let me be honest:  Nocturne by Syrie James is not the sort of novel that I naturally gravitate to.  I read it because it was offered to me and sounded interesting enough to try–the sort …

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True Grit | movie review

On December 30 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

True Grit is the latest movie from the Coen brothers, and their best since No Country for Old Men.  It convinces me that they should stick to movies that are not comedic in structure but …

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Playin’ With Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Tyrion Lannister Chapter 13

On December 20 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

More Tyrion as we go up North to see the Wall and realize Tyrion is a fan of fantasy in this chapter of our Game of Thrones reread.

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Tron Legacy – Review

On December 19 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Tron Legacy is the sort of movie that, in my opinion, requires a disclosure of a reviewer’s perspective up front.  So to that end, I feel compelled to admit that I have only seen Tron …

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Prospero Burns + Embedded by Dan Abnett Review

On December 7 By Phillip Sobel In Book Reviews

Perhaps the most eagerly awaited book of the Horus Heresy series, Prospero Burns is the fifteenth book in this New York Times best-selling collection. Though initially slated for simultaneous release with Graham McNeill’s A Thousand …

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A Marjorie Liu Interview – Dirk, Steele, and X-23

On December 6 By Lexie C In Comics, Interviews

Recently I was given the chance to have a phone chat with best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu, author of the “Dirk & Steele” paranormal romance series and “Hunter Kiss” urban fantasy series; Marjorie is also …

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The Kipple Foodstuff Factory – Notes from New Sodom

On December 3 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Pulp? Science Fiction? and Sci-Fi? Kafka? Lovecraft? Atwood? Hal Duncan speaks on genre.

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Sandman Meditations – Dream Country

On December 2 By Matthew Cheney In (special) Guest Blogs, Sandman Meditations

Matt Cheney dreams a dream of 1000 cats in this chapter of his walk through of the Gaiman Sandman run.

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Sharon Shinn Interview – Writing, Fantasy, and Troubled Waters

On November 16 By Elena Nola In Interviews

Sharon Shinn is the author of nearly two dozen fantasy novels, including the bestselling Twelve Houses and Samaria series.  She has won the William C. Crawford Award for Outstanding New Fantasy Writer and was twice …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Eddard Stark Chapter 12

On November 13 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Robert Baratheon and Ned Stark won a kingdom together. Which of them will out dumb the other to lose it all amidst all the Lannisters?

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A Madness of Angels + The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin Review

On November 8 By Jay In Book Reviews

This book is well-named.  Its title and subtitle are intriguing–they got me to look at its premise.  Which is also intriguing:  Two years after his murder, Matthew Swift wakes up again.  His house is no …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts: Daenerys Targaryen Chapter 11

On October 27 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

We are invited to a wedding by George R. R. Martin and Drogo and Daenerys are the lucky young couple. Emilia and Momoa. Goddamn fine people.

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The Black Swan review from the New Orleans Film Festival

On October 19 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

I could review The Black Swan with one word:  amazing.  The film is dark and shifting, conflating dreams and obsessions into a terrifying reality where nothing is certain.  Natalie Portman stars as Nina, a ballerina …

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127 Hours | movie review from the New Orleans Film Festival

On October 16 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Danny Boyle’s latest movie is based on a true story (chronicled in the memoir Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston), and it would be a disservice to the story and the …

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Gareth Edwards’ Monsters Review

On October 15 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Monsters is, as the title suggests, a monster movie.  Sort of.  It’s also an impressive achievement for a first-time director, much less one who had a tiny budget and created all the effects himself on …

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Never Let Me Go | movie review

On October 14 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Never Let Me Go is adapted from a book that I have not read.  So if you are looking for a book to film comparison, sorry, I can’t give you that—all I can judge is …

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City of Ruin + Nights of Villjamur by Mark Charan Newton Review

On October 14 By Phillip Sobel In Book Reviews

This review is based upon the assumption that you’ve read Nights of Villjamur, the first book in this series. If you haven’t  I think you’re missing out on some of the most groundbreaking urban fantasy currently …

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The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron Review

On October 14 By Lexie C In Book Reviews

I’m not sure there are words to describe how much this book delighted me.  I’ll try very hard, however. The Spirit Thief is the first in a planned series about the adventures of ne’er-do-well Eli …

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The Booker and the Bistro de Critique – Notes from New Sodom

On October 12 By Hal Duncan In (special) Guest Blogs, Notes from New Sodom

Hal Duncan ponders the Man Booker Prize and the candidacy of science fiction and fantasy novels in his latest Notes from New Sodom.

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Daredevil’s Yellow – A Perfect Memory

On October 7 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

A bright yellow costume on a man called Daredevil. It was simply never going to work putting a slightly older, lawyer/vigilante, protector of Hell’s Kitchen in a bright yellow costume. How many reasons are there …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Jon Snow Chapter 10

On October 5 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Our Game of Thrones Reread has brought us to a crossroads, where Stark farewells occur, as we travel north and south, to the wall, and to court.

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Sherlock’s Little Mistakes 3: The Great Game

On September 30 By Jonathan McCalmont In Movies & TV

0.  Terms of Engagement Welcome, Brothers and Sisters, to the third weekly meeting of the Church of The Hermeneutic Christ.  Blessed be the name of Sherlock and peace be upon his prophets Nero Wolfe, Jane …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Tyrion Lannister Chapter 9

On September 29 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Tyrion Lannister enters the Game of Thrones reread, thus beinning the epic journey of a dwarfs who casts a giant kingly shadow.

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Sherlock’s Little Mistakes 2: The Blind Banker

On September 23 By Jonathan McCalmont In Movies & TV

0. Terms of Engagement ydoan yunnuhstan ydoan o yunnuhstand dem yguduh ged yunnuhstan dem doidee yguduh ged riduh ydoan o nudn LISN bud LISN dem gud am lidl yelluh bas tuds weer goin duhSIVILEYEzum So …

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American Vampire – A Study In True Vampirism

On September 22 By Ryan Lindsay In Comics

Scott Snyder is a writer who is working to remind the reading masses what vampires are. In American Vampire, Snyder has created a new divergent path for vampires to tread as he imagines the species …

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Playin’ with Ice and Fire – A Game of Thoughts | Bran Stark Chapter 8

On September 19 By Elena Nola and Jay Tomio In Books & Comics, Game of Thrones, Playin w/ Ice and Fire

Things are going down as in this Bran chapter we get our first GRRM cliffhanger in Game of Thrones – and we all fall down.

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The Art of the Steal – Review

On September 17 By Elena Nola In Movies & TV

Now this is what a documentary should be!  After my disappointment with Restrepo a couple weeks ago, I was thrilled to realize, after popping in this DVD, that The Art of the Steal was reminding me …

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Sherlock’s Little Mistakes 1 : A Study in Pink

On September 16 By Jonathan McCalmont In Movies & TV

0. Terms of Engagement Mystery fiction is a profoundly consolatory genre.  Whether it is set in a Loamshire country house, a snow-bound train or the streets of Victorian London, the mystery novel is all about …

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