Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Television
TV: Atlanta (Season 3)
The long-delayed third season of Atlanta just ended, a good four years after the series’ renewal, and unsurprisingly it’s…
May 30, 2022-
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Fantasy, Horror, TelevisionTV: Archive 81
The short-lived Archive 81 falls into a select category of small-screen podcast adaptations. (Is there another one, aside from…
May 15, 2022 -
Comics, Fantasy, TelevisionTV: Moon Knight
If anyone can afford not to be risk-averse, you’d think it would be Marvel, but they haven’t exactly gone…
May 8, 2022 -
Fantasy, Horror, Television, ThrillerTV: Cracow Monsters (Season 1)
I wouldn’t say I whole-heartedly enjoyed Netflix’s Cracow Monsters, a supernatural horror series from Poland, but it’s one of…
April 24, 2022 -
Fantasy, Fiction, History, Science Fiction, World War IINovel: Summerland by Hannu Rajaniemi
When it comes to “big idea” specfic, Hannu Rajaniemi is one of the best in the business. In his…
April 17, 2022 -
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, TelevisionTV – Feria: The Darkest Light (Season 1)
My international TV travels haven’t taken me to Spain very often. Feria: The Darkest Light, despite its creepy, occult trappings,…
April 10, 2022 -
Fantasy, FictionNovel: The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia
Secondary-world fantasy isn’t traditionally my sweet spot, but when Naseem Jamnia’s The Bruising of Qilwa (2022) showed up in…
March 10, 2022 -
Comics, Fantasy, Film, Science FictionFilm: Eternals
It certainly appears that Marvel intends to leave no stone unturned in mining their vast comics universe for new…
January 23, 2022 -
Fantasy, FilmFilm: The Green Knight
Being relatively ignorant of Arthurian lore, I had no skin in the game for The Green Knight (2021), an…
January 3, 2022 -
Fantasy, Fiction, Science FictionNovel: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Given its intense focus on loss and grief, I mistook Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police for a recent work,…
December 28, 2021 -
Fantasy, TelevisionTV: The Witcher (Season 2)
At long last The Witcher’s second season has dropped, and I inhaled it in a few intense sessions. Definitely…
December 28, 2021 -
Animation, Fantasy, Games, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Arcane (Season 1)
Given what I’ve come to expect from video game adaptations, nothing short of intense critical buzz would have made…
December 26, 2021 -
Comics, Fantasy, FilmFilm: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
It’s almost as if an unfair world is punishing Marvel for finally diversifying. Just as the long-overdue Black Widow…
November 20, 2021 -
Fantasy, Film, HorrorFilm: Gaia
With a tiny cast and modest budget, Gaia (2021) isn’t overwhelmingly impressive, but it gets considerable mileage out of…
November 5, 2021 -
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, TelevisionTV: The Third Day
I’m not sure if it’s an omen that shows keep luring me to creepy islands lately, but here we…
October 24, 2021