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Une Vie and Other Stories, Volume I
I had never heard of Guy de Maupassant when I walked into an old-timey room in Los Angeles’ the Last Bookstore. But I was determined to...
Jun 9, 20232 min read
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The Raid 2: Retaliation
This movie goes hard. There isn’t an action movie from the 2010’s that smashes, slashes, or crashes more spectacularly than this one. So...
Jun 2, 20231 min read
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Partial Reviews: Magic Mike
Boring. Surprisingly skewed so far up the male gaze’s ass that I wonder why it was marketed toward women. So boring. Felt like a male...
May 26, 20231 min read
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In the Watchful City: Fragmentary Beauty
This novella details an exchange of stories investigating colonization, freedom of migration, surveillance, human agency, and...
May 19, 20231 min read
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Magic for Liars: Contemporary Fantastic Noir
Sarah Gailey constructs a fun, engaging magical mystery in Magic for Liars. It’s a classic whodunit, set in a magical high school, with a...
May 12, 20231 min read
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Identity in a Box
Two Black dudes squat in an old house in a gentrified neighborhood. Character posing is extraordinary, colors vibrant, frames often...
May 5, 20231 min read
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Starless and Bible Black: A Horror Extravaganza
From creeping dread to psychological horror to outright terror, Susan York’s short story collection has you covered. The range of the...
Apr 28, 20231 min read
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Under the Pendulum Sun: Victorian Tragedy at Its Strangest
Ee~~~ew. This one, nah. Content warning: incest, violence, christian themes, excessive englishness, and if you can believe it, even more...
Apr 21, 20231 min read
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Dead Collections: Vampiric Tale of Love
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman is a speculative romance novel where the main character is afflicted with vampirism: here, a...
Apr 14, 20231 min read
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FINNA: Multiversal Traveling With Your Ex
The way many spec fiction authors write, this novella could easily have been a four-hundred page tome that opens dozens of subplots and...
Apr 7, 20232 min read
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Phantastes: Aged But Potent
First published in the mid-1800’s, Phantastes is a dated but influential and fascinating work of fantasy fiction. It indulges in...
Mar 31, 20232 min read
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The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Tome That Overflows With Meaning
Benny Oh and his mother, Annabelle, deal with the loss of his father in very different ways. Their mourning is the fabric that the rest...
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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Hell Followed With Us: Beautifully Gruesome
The gore! Lord Jesus, the gore! This is a post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy story about a plague that induces horrific body transformations on...
Mar 17, 20232 min read
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The City We Became: Suck It, Lovecraft
Contemporary cosmic horror that centers a diverse cast. Excellent plotting, but it’s a part-one-of-x so it fails to tell a complete...
Mar 10, 20231 min read
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Everything Everywhere All At Once
Multiverse-hopping mayhem, riotous comedy, inventive action; Everything Everywhere All At Once may not be a film for everyone, but for...
Mar 3, 20231 min read
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Spider-Man: No Way Home; No Meme Too Desperate
Too focused on landing memes to tell an effective story. Every other line of dialogue and character interaction seems to have been...
Mar 23, 20221 min read
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The Poppy War: Action-Packed Sadness
The Poppy War is a dark fantasy war story in which embracing power holds the inherent risk of losing oneself. Its pacing is smooth as...
Mar 23, 20223 min read
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The Shadow Rising: And A Yawn As Well
Book four of the Wheel of Time series is the best so far. Fewer of its subplots stall out without going anywhere, more of it is pulp...
Feb 21, 20222 min read
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Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Well, it’s not boring. I was sucked into Allen Ginsberg’s (Daniel Radcliffe) obsessive emotional spiral around magnetic but dysfunctional...
Sep 17, 20211 min read
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
This movie kicks ass. It’s a visual feast with a soundtrack to match, the writing is tight as hell, the action tells a potent story, and...
Sep 10, 20211 min read
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