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Recap: The Acolyte Episodes 1 & 2 — Lost / Found and Revenge / Justice
The latest Star Wars TV series kicks off with a bang chronicling the adventures of Jedi 100 years before the Skywalker era. It's been a long time since we've had a Skywalker-less Star Wars TV show. In...
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Film Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
We can sometimes feel broken, until we meet someone whose broken pieces fit ours perfectlyI promise you, a very brief tangent about Doctor Who is relevant here.Last week, Doctor Who aired the episode...
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First Contact Project: Mass Effect Andromeda
The unfairly maligned fourth installation in a much beloved series.My love of the Bioware game is... not a small one. We shall not dwell on the number of hours I have played in the Dragon Age...
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Recap: The Acolyte Episode 3 — Destiny
In this episode, we get the tragic backstory of Osha and Mae, as well as a look at brand-new Force witches and the complicated nature of Jedi youngling recruiting.After two episodes of characters...
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What Makes a Great RPG? A Discussion
I’m joined today by Roseanna and Joe D. to talk video game RPGs. Our goal today is to discuss why we all love the genre, what we love about it and what we find most (and least) compelling within the...
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First Contact: the Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
Dreams within dreams within dreams...There is something invigorating, and more than a little peculiar, in watching early films. This far into the 21st century, moving images no longer awe us, as we can...
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First Contact: Brazil
A Kafkaesque fever dream in neon and grayAn unnamed country has been taken over by the Ministry of Information. Now every citizen must be known, catalogued, identifiable. There must be a paper trail...
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Review: The Watchers
Who watches the watchers? The watched?I’ll admit I was drawn to watch (must avoid the temptation to make a torrent of bad puns) The Watchers because of the deeply bizarre and captivating image of these...
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Review: Inside Out 2
More colors, more drama, same beats, same stakesAfter successfully guiding a girl through her first identity crisis and her first complex emotions, Joy and her color-coded coworkers are now in charge...
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Book Review: Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
What the heck did I just read (complimentary)?I've apparently been on a bit of an unreviewable fiction run. I'm not complaining (they've all been stellar) but Rakesfall, the new novel by Vajra...
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First Contact: The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The earliest surviving animated feature length film—a fairy tale from a lost worldA friend of a friend once said that one of the many terrible things the Nazis did was destroy the film industry that...
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First Contact: Labyrinth
A puppet-filled, dream fantasy journeyDespite its enduring popularity, I had never seen the classic 1986 film Labyrinth until this week. I should have identified with a bookish, dreamy,...
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Anime Review: Delicious in Dungeon Series 1
Three different shows in a trenchcoat, masquerading as a fun, silly, traumatic adventure (and succeeding)I don't think I have ever watched a show - any kind of show, not just anime - that careens so...
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Recap: The Acolyte Episode 4 — Day
Blink and you'll miss it this week! Episode 4 is only 34 minutes long but packs a few fun surprises.Last week, we ended on the discovery of a Jedi Wookiee. Episode 4 opens on an overview of his daily...
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Book Review: Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee
Sometimes it's impossible to resist comparisons.I loved Yoon Ha Lee's Machineries of Empire series. They have a gloriously sink or swim quality to the worldbuilding that is somewhat marmite, but...
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Quick round: My recent readings
What a time to be a nerd. These days it looks like people from everywhere are producing an endless wealth of speculative fiction, and my ever-growing TBR pile has become an ominous reminder of the...
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Film Review: Tuesday
Death comes for us all ... in bird form?Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, says the burial service in the Book of Common Prayer. As my seventh-grade history teacher (a man who, in retrospect, influenced me...
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TV Review: Orphan Black Echoes
A fast-paced melodrama replaces the intellectual puzzle box of the original series.Orphan Black Echoes is a sequel to the 2013 hit series Orphan Black starring Tatiana Maslany. Maslany received an Emmy...
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First Contact: Nosferatu
The classic that codified vampires on screen for all erasPreviously in the First Contact project…We've discussed how German Expressionism used extremes of shape and shadow to convey emotional content....
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Film Review: Ultraman Rising
Enjoyable, angsty, trope-filled, family-friendly cuteness. Ultraman is a long running Japanese superhero franchise. It's sort of like Power Rangers with the superhero protecting people from...
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