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Review

Film 

A Minecraft Movie: One of the Strangest Video Game Adaptations Out There

April 23, 2025April 23, 2025 Nicole Bellows adaptation, film, film review, minecraft, Review, reviews, video game movie

A live action adaptation of Minecraft would not have been my first choice for a video game adaptation. Yet here

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Books Film Reviews 

Sunrise on the Reaping: The 1984 of 2025

April 22, 2025April 22, 2025 Scarlett McCourt 1984, Haymitch Abernathy, Review, SOTR, Sunrise on the Reaping, The Hunger Games, THG

Collins’ message rings loud and clear: If you let them, they will change the past and rewrite history right in front of your eyes.

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Film Reviews 

Snow White: Just How Many Princess Problems Does It Actually Have?

April 10, 2025 Sophia Nigro Disney+, film review, movie review, movies, Review, snow white

Ever since Disney released the live-action Alice in Wonderland back in 2010, they’ve been obsessed with remakes. While some of

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Animation Film Reviews 

How the Sonic Movie Franchise Became One of the Best Video Game Movie Adaptations

February 12, 2025 Nicole Bellows film, movies, Review, sonic, sonic the hedgehog

  When the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie came out back in 2020, it blew away peoples’ expectations. After all,

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Books Essays Reviews 

Ultimate Spider-Man: One Year Later

January 29, 2025 Adam Buckley marvel, Marvel Comics, Retrospective, Review, Spider-Man

Nearly one year ago, I wrote about the debut issue of Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s Ultimate Spider-Man, the flagship

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Animation Reviews TV 

Did Arcane Season Two Stick The Landing?

January 19, 2025 Nicole Bellows Animation, arcane, Netflix, Review, TV

The final three episodes of Arcane dropped on November 23rd, and suffice to say that many people have very mixed

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Books Essays Reviews TV 

Magneto was Right: The X-Men vs The Status Quo

April 18, 2024 Adam Buckley Animation, essay, Marvel Comics, Review, Superheroes

“I’m glad to be proven wrong.”   That’s what I said to my sister as we finished the first episode

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Essays Film Reviews Uncategorized 

Dune: Part Two is a Chipped Masterpiece

March 25, 2024 Owen O'Brien Action, Austin Butler, Blockbuster, Christopher Walken, Dune: Part Two, Florence Pugh, Review, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya

After seeing the film, I was initially satisfied with a Letterboxd review, posted almost immediately after leaving the theater. It

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Books Reviews 

The Uncanniness of Ultimate X-Men: Where Comics Meet Manga

March 15, 2024March 15, 2024 Dillon Hampton anime, comics, manga, Review

Written by Dillon Hampton and Adam Buckley.   Ultimate X-Men #1 came out on March 6th and it’s gracing the

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Books Reviews 

Welcome Back, Identity Crisis

March 7, 2024March 7, 2024 Piper Egan manga, manga review, Oshimi Shuzo, Review, Shuzo Oshimi, Welcome Back Alice

Welcome Back, Alice is a disturbing, and at-times nauseating, mess, yet still remains effortlessly captivating in its twisted, vulgar beauty.

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Books Reviews 

A reading of Chain-Gang All-Stars ahead of author’s visit to Rowan

February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 Taylor Henry book, chain-gang all-stars, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Review, reviews

Writing Arts is proud to host an evening with New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award nominee Nana

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Books Reviews 

Starling House is a Modern Fairy Tale Done Right

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 Katelyn Sullivan book review, fantasy, gothic, Review, starling house

Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, Tor Publication Date: October 3, 2023 Eden, Kentucky, the setting of Alix E. Harrow’s low-gothic

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Games Reviews 

Cavern of Dreams: Simple but Sweet

November 28, 2023 Ethan Gross collectathon, dragon, game review, gaming, indie games, PC games, platformer, platforming game, Review, steam, video games

There’s a simple joy in revisiting the past. Retro pastiches are nothing new, they’ve existed for as long as people

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Concerts Music Reviews 

Del Water Gap on Tour: A Break From the Pain and the Color of Your Walls

November 11, 2023 Olivia Phillips concert, Del Water Gap, indie, pop, Review

On the night of October 20th, a sold-out crowd packed into Union Transfer in Philadelphia. The anticipation was palpable, buzzing

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Games Reviews 

Remember, There is Always Another Way: A Review on Leef 6010’s Paper Lily

June 26, 2023June 28, 2023 Lesley George game review, horror, indie, indie game, Review, rpg horror

Indie developers have been crushing the RPG Horror genre for decades—games like The Witch’s House, OMORI, Mad Father, and Ib

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Music 

So Much For The Old Fall Out Boy: A Review and Deep Dive Into FOB’s Eighth Studio Album

April 23, 2023 Helaina Parejo album review, Fall Out Boy, music, music review, pop punk, Review, rock

It should be mathematically impossible to combine pop punk, soul, synth, disco, classical music, theatrical melodies, Ethan Hawke’s monologue from

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Concerts Music 

Why We Need Bikini Kill: A Concert Review

April 17, 2023 Helaina Parejo Bikini Kill, concert, feminism, music, music review, punk, Review

The energy in Philly’s Franklin Music Hall is far more than electric, it is like a snaking live wire sending

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Bad Movie Monday Film Reviews 

Bad Movie Monday: Ratatoing Review

April 10, 2023 Tyler DiCarlo Bad Movie Monday, Ratatoing, Review

The Uncanny Valley, when applied to computer animation, describes a unique sense of eeriness when the viewer experiences animation that

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Games Reviews 

Board Game Overview: So Clover!

March 20, 2023March 29, 2023 Ted Howell board games, Review

The best party games cultivate conversations that wouldn’t happen without the game there to prompt them. Popular party games like

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Music 

“Love From The Other Side” and “Heartbreak Feels So Good”: A Fall Out Boy Renaissance or Rift?

February 14, 2023 Helaina Parejo Fall Out Boy, music, music review, pop punk, Review, rock

Despite the title of their fifth album, Fall Out Boy is no longer interested in saving rock and roll—or pop

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Film Reviews 

The Wonder may fly under the radar, but it is still some of Florence Pugh’s best work

December 17, 2022December 17, 2022 Gianna Forgen film, Florence Pugh, Netflix, Psychological Thriller, Review, The Wonder, Thriller

This review contains spoilers for the movie.  A smart consumer of media will watch anything for Florence Pugh; the 26-year-old

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Music Reviews 

The My Chemical Romance Reunion Tour: Emo’s Not Dead It’s Just Middle Aged

October 27, 2022 Helaina Parejo concert, emo, MCR, music, My Chemical Romance, Review, rock

The most dangerous men on the planet (or, at least they were in 2010) are back. After an eight-year hiatus

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Reviews TV 

Season 48 is a new era for Saturday Night Live

October 26, 2022 Gianna Forgen NBC, Review, Saturday Night Live, SNL, TV

Saturday Night Live is back with a new logo, new opening credits, and four new cast members. The season forty-eight

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Belial, the absolute joy of the Bradely family, in his iconic basket
Essays Film Reviews 

Basket Case Review: Butchery, Blood, and Brotherly Love

October 6, 2022October 7, 2022 Owen Ruliva 1980's, 80's, film, films, horror, horror movies, movie review, movies, retro, Review, scary, slasher

If you were to take two brothers and divide them into two, what do you end up with? Well, if

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Music Reviews 

Jxdn’s Tell Me About Tomorrow: A Light in Darkness

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Katelyn Warren #albumreview, #jxdn, #tellmeabouttomorrow #jadenhossler, Review

  As an avid pop punk lover whose favorite bands are Blink-182 and Green Day, I was really excited to

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Reviews TV 

Jerrod Carmichael’s Rothaniel: “Here’s Everything”

April 30, 2022 Gianna Forgen comedy, HBO, Jerrod Carmichael, Review, SNL, TV

There have been few weekends where I go to turn on Saturday Night Live and am unfamiliar with the host;

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Reviews TV 

“The Book of Boba Fett” Focuses Too Much on The Past to Carve Out Its Own Future

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 Frank Saponare Disney+, Review, Star Wars, TV

  Disney+ has recently released the season finale to its second live action Star Wars series with The Book of

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