Featured image – “The Shrike” by Edouard Noisette Hyperion is one of my favourite science fiction novels. It’s one of the few books I’ve actually read twice (I’m not one of those re-reader types). When I wanted to start the sequel, Fall of Hyperion, I realized that I needed to refresh myself on all the…
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Movie Reviews – Interstellar & Hobbit: Battle of 5 Armies
Thanks to their both being available on home video (take the hint, cinema-industry) I was finally able to watch two of the biggest movies of …. 2014! The only reason I didn’t find The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies even more disappointing than I did was because my expectations had been lowered by the…
A Feast For Crows by George R.R. Martin – Book Review
Featured image is Cersei turns to Ash by Duncan Dewar As I typically do, I read books to prepare for movies and tv seasons, so I was eager to catch up with our friends in Westeros before Game of Thrones season 5 returns in a couple of weeks. However, as I read/listened, I also started…
Citizenfour – Movie Review
Sad that it was only because of the Oscar win that I decided to watch Citizenfour, the face-to-face documentary about Edward Snowden and the journalists who brought this story about NSA surveillance and invasion of privacy to public light. To be frank, I was pretty ignorant about these events and this story, only having heard…
Oscar Schmoscar 2015
It’s Academy Awards time, and that means it’s once again time for me to weigh in with my ignorance and inability to appreciate an Oscar-worthy performance. If you’re like me, you’ll want to cram-watch a few more of the nominees in time to at least have an opinion for the awards next week. Let me…
Midseason TV 2015
Midseason is here again. It’s that time of year when TV networks (and a growing number of non-TV channels who are delivering episodic content) take a second run at catching the audience’s attention. It’s usually a time when some of the more outlandish/inventive shows come on, which the programming execs might have thought were too…
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey – Book Review
I was surprisingly disappointed by Leviathan Wakes, which is the first of a series of books now headed to tv on the US SyFy channel as “The Expanse”. They characterize the show as a Game of Thrones set in space, so that gave me all kinds of expectations of an array of interesting characters and…
2014 Blockbuster Movie Review Catch-up
Before the bell rings on 2014 and rings in 2015, I wanted to give my two cents on a few of the blockbuster movies that blew away the box office in 2014 (but I missed catching them at the theatres). Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel’s leap into space adventures had a US opening weekend of…
Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith – Book Review
Featured image is Diamond Star by Brian Yi (please click the link to see the full image — it’s nice.) Seth Grahame-Smith is the author who brought zombies to Pride and Prejudice, and turned America’s “great emancipator”, Abraham Lincoln, into a vampire hunter. He’s been tipping some of the sacred cows of literature and history for…
Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture 