Star Trek III – The Search for Spock – film review
Star Trek III – The Search for Spock picks up right where The Wrath of Khan left off. Spock is dead and his…
Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones – film review
Continuing the prequel trilogy is Star Wars Episode II – Attack of the Clones. The Trade Federation has been beaten back, and Padme…
The World of the Dark Crystal by Bryan Froud – art book review
I have loved the art of Brian Froud ever since I first saw The Dark Crystal back when it first came out. Before…
Star Wars Episode I – The Phantom Menace – film review
Let us travel back in time, almost sixteen years ago. Fans of Star Wars and its sequels were eagerly awaiting the arrival of…
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…
Kiki’s Delivery Service – anime film review
First released in Japan in 1989, Kiki’s Delivery Service lacks a lot of the bells and whistles today’s films feature, but it retains…
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.…
Rise of the Phoenix by R.F. Barlow – novel review
Two twins with extraordinary powers are separated at seven, and each thinks the other is dead. Their village is destroyed and buried by…
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…
10 Little Monsters Visit Oregon by Rick Walton – picture book review
Picture books take a lot of talent to do correctly. In many ways, I think it is harder to write a picture book…
Child of Light – game review
There once was a Duke whose wife died, leaving him to raise their red-headed daughter, Aurora. Soon after he married a second time,…
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan – film review
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan picked up the torch of the franchise and boldly took the series where it had never…
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…
Star Trek The Motion Picture – film review
Star Trek The Motion Picture was an ambitious film, coming on the heels of the original Star Wars and Close Encounters of the…
Hotel Transylvania 2 – animated film review
I absolutely loved Hotel Transylvania. The humor was spot on, the characters were a fun take on classic movie monsters, and the story…
When Marnie Was There – anime film review
In 2013, when I first heard Studio Ghibli was going to be animating the book by the same title by Joan G. Robinson,…
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…
How to Train Your Dragon 2 – film review
How to Train Your Dragon 2 picks up five years after the events of the first How to Train Your Dragon movie. Hiccup…
One Hundred and One Dalmatians – animated film review
I remember seeing One Hundred and One Dalmatians for the first time when I was much younger, probably during its rerelease in theaters…
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…
The Emperor’s New Groove – animated film review
I have to admit: when The Emperor’s New Groove first came out almost 15 years ago, the trailers did not inspire me to…