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May 19, 2025

Andor concludes with a pitch-perfect Star Wars story

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Of all the Star Wars properties outside the three big trilogies, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) has always stood out as particularly superb. …

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March 29, 2025

Free nerd

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

It’s no secret that I’m a nerd. I’ve waxed poetic about The Lord of the Rings and Star Trek enough in these pages for the …

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March 3, 2025

The Substance features a lot of substance, but without the need to overthink it

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

A lot of reviews of The Substance are filled with thinky references to an uncommonly large number of other films, from Carrie to The Shining, …

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February 26, 2025

The life of the author

By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff

There are three books by Neil Gaiman on my shelves: Good Omens, American Gods and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. The sight …

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February 26, 2025

Emily Articulated: Severance

By Emily Erickson
Reader Columnist

What if you never had to think about work outside of the office again? No stress, no emails, no lingering dread of Monday mornings. The …

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January 21, 2025

Documentary film Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams, rediscovers one of 20th-century literature’s true originals

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

Of the many hazards of being an artistic trailblazer is that your creations turn into tropes while your hand in inventing them gets forgotten.

That’s …

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December 11, 2024

Dune: Prophecy trafficks in uninspired inevitability

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

It’s getting hard to justify the buzz around certain “prestige” series — in no small part because, somehow, despite having an endless supply of money …

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September 4, 2024

By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff

We’ve learned a lot about dinosaurs since the 1990s. For one thing, they probably had feathers and ran around squawking and pecking at each other …

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August 20, 2024

Mad about Science: Powered Exoskeleton

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

The idea of a powered human exoskeleton is an old one. Sigourney Weaver whooping the crap out of the xenomorph queen with a power loader …

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October 4, 2023

Mad about Science: Cyberpunk

By Brenden Bobby
Reader Columnist

I know what you’re thinking: “Why is the science guy writing about science fiction?”

I have an answer for that. Similar to the communicators of …