
Film: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nobody was happier than I was when Marvel started to conquer Hollywood, but it’s been losing its mojo for…
March 7, 2023Nobody was happier than I was when Marvel started to conquer Hollywood, but it’s been losing its mojo for…
March 7, 2023I missed the hullabaloo surrounding Susanna Clarke’s debut, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which didn’t seem like my kind…
February 18, 2023It’s easy to see why Netflix’s 1899 was green-lit. A complex, period mystery box set on a ship, from…
February 6, 2023Whenever a series escalates into a truly obsessive binge for me, I start questioning whether it’s actually a great…
February 1, 2023Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes…
January 16, 2023Early on, it didn’t seem likely to me that Don’t Worry Darling (2022)—a major release that saw as much…
January 5, 2023Based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, Shining Girls is another accomplished effort from Apple, a creepy crime tale…
December 18, 2022Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while that can be horribly…
December 17, 2022I can’t be alone in my complicated relationship with Star Wars; the franchise did, after all, play a huge…
December 4, 2022Somehow, I made it through High-Rise (2015) without knowing it was based on a J.G. Ballard novel—which, in retrospect,…
November 22, 2022For accessible, engaging storytelling, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranqiuility (2022) is unsurprisingly successful, a quick and effortless…
November 16, 2022Writer-director David Cronenberg returns to his speculative roots with Crimes of the Future (2022), an unsettling blend of body…
November 6, 2022Clearly there’s something about the artistry of Jordan Peele’s films that appeals to me, because even in the case…
November 5, 2022I love an inventive, close-to-home space opera with political edge–think The Expanse, or Ian McDonald’s Luna trilogy. Maurice Broaddus’s…
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