Category: Pop Fantasy Culture
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2023 Reading Year in Review
Jodi L. Milner’s 2023 list of favorite reads, including her best read of the year.
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Movie Review: Amazon’s Cinderella
If there’s one fairy tale that’s been done to death, it’s Cinderella. So, when Amazon announced their new pop musical version of the story, I wasn’t super excited. Through the grapevine I’d heard rumor that it wasn’t all that good, but I was intrigued. Armed with a bowl of popcorn and my favorite snarky movie…
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Movie Review: Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2017)
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned my love for Studio Ghibli and the works of acclaimed artist and director Hayao Miyazaki here on the blog before. If not, it’s never a moment too soon to start. Hubby and I even cosplayed as No Face from the Academy Award winning movie, Spirited Away. For pics, head over…
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Book Review: Muse of Nightmares, Laini Taylor
When you fall in love with a story, it’s always a delight to know there’s a sequel. Muse of Nightmares is the sequel to Strange the Dreamer, a beautifully written fantasy that I gushed about in my review posted a few weeks ago. There’s also a worry when it comes to sequels. If the first…
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TV Review: Lower Decks
This might flag me as a super nerd, but my little trekkie heart couldn’t pass this one up. Lower Decks is a officially liscensed Star Trek cartoon where instead of following the top brass as they brave strange new frontiers, we follow several lower deck crew members as they struggle fervently to not totally screw…
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Throwback Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides
This one’s the forth movie and the one with the mermaids, just in case anyone was struggling to tell the difference between one adventure to the next. Heaven knows I can’t keep them straight either. Ok, where were we? Right. In the continuing effort to indoctrinate the kiddos in all things nerd, we continued our…
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Movie Review: Ghostbusters, Answer the Call (2016)
♫ When there’s something strange, in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? ♪ Shout it with me now – GHOSTBUSTERS! I grew up watching the original Ghostbusters and remember being both a little terrified and thrilled by it. It came out when I was only four and I most definitely saw it when I was…
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Movie Review: Edward Scissorhands
Crazy as it may sound, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the iconic Tim Burton film, Edward Scissorhands. If that doesn’t make you feel old, I don’t know what will. It made me feel old, and that’s saying something. I rewatched the movie to commemorate the anniversary and – It was really boring. The…
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Throwback Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean, At World’s End
There’s nothing more redeeming to an okayish sequel than to get another chance and make a trilogy. For those keeping track, this is the third Pirate’s movie and the one where Jack Sparrow is stranded on the Bonneville Salt Flats, erm, I mean Davy Jones’ locker. We also visit the foreign and mysterious South China…
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Book Review: The Diabolic, by S. J. Kincaid
This book was recommended to me by a friend in the writing world when I told her what else I’d been reading and happened to mention my random foray into science fiction. She thought this would be a great fit as while The Diabolic is set in space, it’s more of a suspense thriller than…