Daredevil Season One – television series review
Marvel Comics’ Daredevil Season One is original programming on Netflix. It’s a very different beast than Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It’s darker, more…
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Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii and 3DS – game review
Xenoblade Chronicles was a Japanese role playing game released in Japan in 2010. It seemed fated to never arrive on North American shores.…
Pack Dynamics by Julie Frost – book review
Ben Lockwood, former Army Ranger, has become a private investigator after returning from several months as a POW in Afghanistan. Hoping for a…
Next – film review
Say what you will about Nicholas Cage, the man is busy. He’s had two movies out this year, and seven more coming up.…
The Martian – film review
Although it is science fiction, The Martian takes place in a future so near to us it could almost be confused for the…
Insurgent – film review
The movie Insurgent was a slightly flawed, but solid, sequel to Divergent, with excellent special effects, strong performances by the lead actors, and…
Turbulence by Samit Basu – novel review
As I read Turbulence, a niggling question kept popping into my brain: what, exactly, is the problem with this book? It’s not the…
Better World by Autumn Kalquist – short fiction review
I initially came across Better World by Autumn Kalquist due to ads on Facebook (so apparently they work, sometimes) which kept promising me…
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck – short fiction review
I heard about A Short Stay in Hell, by Steven L. Peck, a few years ago from one of my friends while at…
Divergent – film review
Soon after Mad Max was released, the 80s were filled with innumerable knock-off dystopian movies, where somehow the infrastructures of society failed in…
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle – film review
The Crown and the Dragon: The Paladin Cycle is part of a new wave of media. It originally began as a Kickstarter project,…
Edge of Tomorrow – film review
If you read my previous review of All You Need Is Kill, you may be wondering what the movie Edge of Tomorrow, starring…
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies – film review
With The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the trilogy of movies based on The Hobbit draws to a close. Those familiar…
Seconds by Brian Lee O’Malley – graphic novel review
Brian O’Malley creates a modern fairytale with a bit of old world blended into the new in his latest graphic novel since his…
The Maze Runner – film review
I read The Maze Runner book shortly after it was published back in October 2009. It was very compelling and kept me interested…
Vampire Academy – film review
I caught Vampire Academy on a whim one day. It’s based on the book by Richelle Mead. The trailer for the movie seemed…
X-Men: Days of Future Past – film review
X-Men: Days of Future Past is the latest installment in Marvel’s X-men franchise. It suffered from too-many-characters-itis like the previous movies, but was…
Red Riding Hood – film review
I don’t often say this about a film, but Red Riding Hood was complete dreck. It could have been good. The plot had…
Tales of Honor volume 1: On Basilisk Station by Matt Hawkins, Jung-Geun Yoon, Sang-Il Jeong, and Linda Sejic
I have long been a fan of the military science fiction of David Weber, especially the Honor Harrington series (or “Honorverse“). Tales of…
Odd Thomas – film review
Odd Thomas is a movie based on the book by Dean Koontz (actually, a series of books). It stars Anton Yelchin as Odd…
Monster Hunter Legion by Larry Correia – book review
After saving the world at least three times now, the crew at Monster Hunter International is back in Monster Hunter Legion, the fourth…