Tag: reviews
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Mooncop by Tom Gauld – A Book Review
I discovered Mooncop, published by Drawn & Quarterly, from NPR Book Concierge’s guide to great 2016 reads. Luckily enough, my local library had a copy available. Mooncop is a brief read, one that you could probably wrap up in a single sitting. The concept is that a single moon cop patrols a lone colony on…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – A Movie Review (No Spoilers)
So, if you’ve been keeping up, you know getting to this movie was a bit of an odyssey for me. Finally, though, Sunday night, I got to view it for the first time. (And yes, there WILL be a second time … probably a third as well.) I’m NOT going to spoil anything for you,…
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Regarding The Castle Theatre, Penny & Sparrow, and Delta Rae
A few years ago I discovered a cool video with a great song called Bottom Of the River. I tracked down the artists to find they were a young band out of North Carolina called Delta Rae. I followed them casually for a few years while listening to their music intermittently. A few weeks ago…
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4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster – A Book Review
Let’s establish right away that Paul Auster is one of my favorite authors. In fact, I’d consider myself something of a “fanboy.” I’ve read the vast majority of his published work after discovering him about ten years ago. He earned my trust back then, which means I will read anything he releases. Anything. 4 3…
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Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye by Gerard Way, Jon Rivera, and Michael Avon Oeming- A (Comic) Book Review
It’s not often I buy a single-issue comic book (or, as I affectionately refer to them – floppies), but I could not resist this issue due to the title alone. Cave Carson would not have garnered my curiosity, but Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye? Yes, that’s the kind of title that demands my attention.…
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Doctor Strange – A Movie Review
This is a Marvel movie unlike any other. You will see insane special effects that absolutely transfix. And though the movie is somewhat beholden to the cliched “origin story,” it does attempt, perhaps more so than ever before, to present a true journey to heroism. In the end, though, it had a major flaw. Doctor…
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Star Wars: Ahsoka by EK Johnston – A Book Review
Perhaps the greatest Star Wars character to never actually appear in one of the films, Ahsoka Tano broke out during the animated Clone Wars series. If you’re unfamiliar with her, she once served as Anakin Skywalker’s Padawan. She and Anakin had an incredible bond, and when she left the Jedi Order, it broke Anakin’s heart.…
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Tony and Susan by Austin Wright – A Book Review
A checked this book out because I read in Entertainment Weekly about a film adaptation coming soon called Nocturnal Animals. Tony and Susan originally published in 1993. The author died ten years later. The EW article made the premise sound fascinating, so I couldn’t wait to read the book. The plot is that Susan Morrow…
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling – A Book/Script Review
I admit that I can typically get caught up in a moment, but Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is my new favorite Harry Potter story. If you haven’t yet read it, I urge you to do so. Of course, it must be clarified that while this is in book format, it is not actually a…
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