Book Review: A Guide For Murdered Children

New year, new you, new thrillers! Coming up is A Guide For Murdered Children by Sarah Sparrow. Full disclosure, I got an advanced epub copy through Netgalley. You are either going to love or hate this book. The first half of the book is focused on setting up the premise; children who were murdered...

Women's Libation! Is A Tall Drink Of A Book

When I was in university, our women’s resource center would have a charity event every year called Women Who Rock. It was, essentially, a band show at a bar that featured female music groups of all sorts, and the bar also sold drinks with amazing names like Menstruation Sensation. When I finished...

Artemis by Andy Weir Is A Bumpy Ride

Some authors become notorious for repeating themselves. When you read a Stephen King novel, chances are you’ll encounter things that you’ve seen in other Stephen King novels; black people with magical powers, an average looking middle aged schlubb with a smoking hot wife, a writer protagonist, etc....

Elessar's Top 10 Movies of 2017

The end of the year is a time to take stock, look back at the triumphs and failures, and, for 2017 at least, scream like the damned for something like an hour straight. Yeah, my airing of grievances for this year's Festivus began 2 weeks ago and is still going to this day. It may go into 2018. But...

Elessar's Worst Movies of 2017

I genuinely look forward to doing my Best and Worst lists all year. It's not only a sign that a year has passed (in this case a hellish, unending year) but a chance to look back at the year and take stock. And while my Best of the Year list may surprise some of you, it's currently incomplete (there's...

Critical Hits & Misses #344

Tom Hanks refused to attend a screening of his own movie, The Post, at the White House, and denounces attacks on the First Amendment.  And over at EW, Olivia Munn pens an essay about her own experience with sexual harassment, and why she is speaking out against an industry with a history...

Critical Hits & Misses #341

Mess with Jeff, prepare for death. In the never-ending battle of dealing with the toxic elements of Overwatch's playerbase, Jeff Kaplan performs an epic takedown of a forum troll who tried to play innocent on why he/she received a temp-ban in Overwatch.  Marvel's (white) Editor-in-Chief...

Ghost in the Shell Film Analysis Part V and Final: The Problem With the Ghost in The Shell film

The film has one Big Issue, and it’s racism. In fact, it’s such a big issue that it manifests itself in three ways: white-washing, Orientalism and Eurocentrism. Yes, in previous installments I spent a huge amount of time praising how believable and cool future Japan was, and yet I’m charging...

Critical Hits & Misses #340

Now you listen here, Old Man.... --Rey, probablyGet off my lawn, Millenial punk! --Luke, probably In a battle more brutal than the Rebellion and the Empire, a war is being waged online. Two generations of Star Wars fans fight over whether or not The Last Jedi was good. (Spoilers) Goddammit....

Blockbusters: Thor Ragnarok vs. Justice League

Superhero movies are big business these days and during the times when a genre is big business, everyone wants to be releasing as many of them as possible. That this eventually leads to a bubble is an article for another time. No, the point this time is that eventually...