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I have to admit something. It’s a little embarrassing, and from it you might make some assumptions about my parents. Despite their attitudes about respect, responsibility, accountability, and integrit...
To Protect and Serve
Inspired by the resurgence of sci-fi and the emergence of more mature-themed comics in the 1980s, RoboCop tells the story of a police officer in a decaying Detroit. He is assigned to the most violent...
More Than Just a Movie
I was sold on the film the moment I saw the trailer and heard Michael B. Jordan say, “Naw, we cousins.”Set in the Jim Crow South, Sinners tells the story of a juke joint (think club in Prohibition-era...
A masterpiece blend of horror and philosophy
I'd never considered myself a fan of horror until I delved into Mike Flanagan's various limited series on Netflix. He has a very captivating way of building earnest drama along slow-boil tension and r...
This Cyber-Organic Techno-Naturalist Rivals-Turned-Lovers Gender and Time Non-Conforming High-Concept and Abstract Sci-Fi Romance Novella Rules. There's Your Title.
“The twist of you in me. The writhe. You’re a whip uncoiling in my veins, and I write between the rearing and the snap.” Amal El Mohtar’s and Max Gladstone's Award-Winning(Hugo, Nebula, and Locust) Sc...
A great show to just sit and enjoy
I am skeptical of deconstructions of genre. In lesser hands the deconstruction is boorish with nothing to say more than “Doesn’t this suck? AMIRIGHT?!?!” I call that finger in your eye satire and it's...
Run, Rabbit, Run-Reading Alex Greican’s “Red Rabbit”
There’s powerful, totemic magic at play here. Devils walk the earth, ghouls consume men alive, and you’d better be careful of any strangers you meet alone on a dusty Kansas trail. You see, Samuel Colt...
One of the Best books about America and Sports
I saw the trailer for the movie the summer before college, over 20 years ago, and picked this book up. I read it quickly. Years later I read it again, something truly rare for me. I drove through Odes...
Review of Super Pedestrian
A greatly enjoyable listen for indie rock in the 2020s, Annie DeRusso's "Super Pedestrian" hits a lot of high notes without hitting true perfection. The songs are emotive and diverse in their topics...
Review of Where the Light Goes
Spoiler While it features stand out tracks such as "Wild Dogs(which strikes such a particular upbeat, poppy emotive chord) or "where the light goes," this album remains committed to a specific sound of nostal...
A Perennial Classic
It's been 36 years since the debut of Depeche Mode's "Violator," and it remains as relevant as ever.Representing a tremendous shift in sound and songwriting, there's little left so say about the 1990...
Sticks the landing
Man Seeking Woman season three is the final season and a logical place to stop for the show. I thought it was a planned final season but the show was canceled but given how it ends I assume they were...
A fun and fascinating book
If you are expecting a purely Lovecraftian story then this isn't for you. This feels like a blend of pulp action, historical fiction and magical fantasy all filtered through the lens of black people s...
A little better each time
Most good shows use their first season to discover what works and what doesn’t. The second season more experimentation but more focused. The writers and actors remix what works, fix what can be fixed...
Blander than CBS
Packed with all the thrills, sex, espionage, and government intrigue of a CBS made for TV film. Something uncomplicated, to a fault, designed carefully not to offend anyone who could sit through 90 mi...
Misadventures in Dating
Man Seeking Woman is a comedy series shown on FXX and FX. It is about a recently single man named Josh who is trying to date again. His best friend Mike, a wild party boy who is always down for a good...
Review of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Spoiler “The Lord giveth and the 20mm taketh away. Killing is our business and business is good.”Nick Turse offers one of the most raw and devastating examinations of the Vietnam War, which makes it unsurpris...
An Exercise in Expectation Management
Coming off the heels of a surprisingly successful season one, Fallout set its sights on the Mojave. A surprising but exciting development in the show, spending time in New Vegas was a seemingly ambiti...
A technical manual with few embelishments
Based in the Starfire* universe this novel details a conflict between an alliance of the standard, and unimaginative, aliens (A cat species, a bird species…etc…) and humanity vs aliens that are analog...
Exists to establish the average
I am not going to lie after watching the pilot of 'Welcome to Derry' I remembered that I owned this audio book. I needed something to listen to while I was on the road and so this was as good a choice...
I guess they do still make thrillers like they used to
Let me tell you about a movie. Its a Neo-noire crime thriller. A heist film. A professional criminal with a personal code is chased around Los Angeles taking heist after heist. A determined and unpopu...
A step back to go forward
The second season of the Wire is not as good as the first season, but it is just as important.The entire run of the show could be understood as an American epic, each season is a book and each episode...
Pleasant and Uninteresting
Like listening to muzak in a dream K-Mart but you're underwater. It's perfectly pleasant and one or two tracks like "swordsman" and "babygirl(like no1 else) show promise, but overall the album feels p...
The Weeknd's Most Experimental Album
My personal favorite of the Weeknd's albums to date, Dawn FM simultaneously captures a feeling like listening to the radio once upon a time on a softly lit, sunny afternoon on some forgotten weekend w...