Wreck-It Ralph – animated film review
Wreck-It Ralph is an animated film from Disney, part of the new wave of the “Pixar method” of film-making: story is king. Period.…
Oblivion – film review
Oblivion is a science fiction film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Morgan Freeman, and Andrea Riseborough. It is…
Oz the Great and Powerful – film review
An origin story for the “Man behind the Curtain,” Oz the Great and Powerful was a flawed but very enjoyable film. Visually, this…
Nightingale by David Farland (part two) – novel review
Nightingale by David Farland was released in paper and eBook formats, but it is the enhanced eBook that I’ll be covering here in…
Nightingale by David Farland (part one) – novel review
Nightingale by David Farland is the first big release by Farland’s new East India Press. This young adult contemporary fantasy was released as…
The Iron Giant – animated film review
The Iron Giant (loosely based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by England’s poet laureate Ted Hughes) is set in the 1950’s…
Secret of the Wings – film review
Secret of the Wings is a 2012 release from DisneyToon Studios directed by Bobs Gannaway and Peggy Holmes. It received limited release in…
Looper – film review
It’s 2074 in Looper. Guys use their telekinetic abilities to float coins to impress chicks, the future looks like a war ravaged, poverty…
Ultra Maniac by Wataru Yoshizumi – manga review
Wataru Yoshizumi, author of fan favorite Marmalade Boy, wrote manga series Ultra Maniac in 2003. It was popular enough to spawn an anime…
The Croods – film review
The Croods is the latest work from Dreamworks Animation. The film is co-directed by Kirk DeMicco and Chris Sanders and stars Emma Stone,…
Time Traveller – The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – film review
Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, is a Japanese science fiction film, the fourth based on the novel The Girl Who…
Q and A by Mitsuru Adachi – manga review
Q and A is an unusual, slightly-fantastical, slice-of-life manga from Mitsuru Adachi, best known in the States for his baseball manga, Cross Game.…
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – anime film review
Once upon a time there was a book. It was called The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Published in Japan in 1967, and…
Condorman – film review
Condorman is a film I remember fondly from my childhood. It’s a spy thriller with some science fiction bits and it stars Michael…
The Throme of the Erril of Sherill by Patricia A. McKillip – book review
Originally published in 1973, The Throme of the Erril of Sherill by Patricia A. McKillip is a delightful children’s fairytale about a “cnite”…
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou by Hitoshi Ashinano – manga review
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou (literally Yokohama Shopping Travelogue) is a 14-volume “soft science fiction” series by Hitoshi Ashinano published in the manga anthology magazine…
Children Who Chase Lost Voices – anime film review
Children Who Chase Lost Voices is the most recent release from anime film director Makoto Shinkai, following on his films Voices of a…
The Secret of Kells – animated film review
The Secret of Kells is an animated film set in and around the Abbey of Kells in County Meath in Ireland. It is…
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein – book review
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A. Heinlein is the very first and only Heinlein book I’ve ever read. I’ve been…
Jack the Giant Slayer – film review
Jack the Giant Slayer is a fantasy action-adventure film starring Nicholas Hoult (recently a zombie in Warm Bodies) and directed by Bryan Singer.…
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis – omnibus review
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis are rightly considered classic fantasy, and rank right up there with The Hobbit and The Lord…