Movie and book reviews.
Wonderful adult comedy with Theron and Seth Rogen as unlikely romantic leads. Both fish-out-of-water make the movie work on many levels. And the theme of the need for integrity in all things political couldn’t be more timely or germane for the audience.
Fun but predictable live-action remake. Will Smith gets all the kudos while the musical numbers, other than his, are flat. Will’s genie was worth the ticket price.
Stephen King masterpiece centered on all those servicing and sitting in the electric chair with fantasy and supernatural elements sprinkled on top to make the terrifying dish palatable.
Charles Stross’s sci.fi. that skips to the far future after the singularity. Not about the singularity at all, but about technological shock waves and people’s inability to imagine consequences they’re unfamiliar with.
Long but satisfactory continuation of the killer downer of the prior film. Characters bits seem more balanced and the audience responded.
Interesting take on the transformation of society based on a successful daemon, not even the true singularity.
Elana A. Mugdan’s engaging fantasy of Keriya Nameless as a pawn in a power struggle between dragons and opposing magic wielders who want to dominate them.
J.D. Baker’s masterful retelling of the vampire legend with the great grandson of Bram Stoker, Dacre Stoker, and access to unpublished notes. Baker capture’s the same mood and plays to our immortal interest in death and the possibility of cheating it.
Very good sci.fi. novel of earth’s invasion where the aliens attempt to conquer us from the inside out.
Terrible excuse for a science fiction movie, getting all the science and all of the fiction wrong. A manned mission to the event horizon of a black hole??? Enough said.