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I have said elsewhere I think the main problem with Golden is that parts of it just make no sense if you have not seen the movie. Like...

Read The Trees by Percival Everett (James, Erasure) and it’s a slow burn, starting with the murder of two men in Money, Mississippi...

...amongst their weapons are music, the power of friendship, and really big swords.

I have really enjoyed the movie, and the music. Most of my latest music has been basically KPOP Demon Hunters or Hazbin Hotel, I've had...

John Scalzi argues here that KDH is a genuinely grass roots hit that nobody saw coming, and I’m inclined to agree...

Something like Labyrinth Lord, probably tweaked to not have classes and thus more flexible character creation and development, and aimed...

Watched it at the cinema a few days ago, and yeah, it was really great. My favourite scenes are actually not the comical moments (though...

That would be great but sadly they’re probably both a bit old now. Rege-Jean Page seems a good fit, as I suggested.

Working my way through Tales from Earthsea (the book, not the terrible movie). This thing is fantastic so far.

Just read Crystal Heart, a graphic novel that is basically the collection for the webcomic of the same name, which in turn is all about...

Just finished Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp (she also wrote The Rescuers, on which the Disney film is based, a bit like Dodie Smith and...

Yes, I agree Ogres and Firewalkers (2020) and even Ironclads (2017) handled what sounds like similar themes well. And of course he’s...

I'd blame the pandemic but it was released in 2024, and Ogres, which was released in 2022, much closer to the pandemic, is also much...

I just finished reading King James I of England's 1604 treatise, A Counterblaste to Tobacco, and found it quite entertaining. This is...

The novel is fun, but more character driven than The Martian. Which is a problem, because Weir is a pretty limited writer in that...