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The film opens big questions, but being an interquel constrains how deeply it can explore them It’s hard to keep track of all the production...

Supermeh (First things first: of course the dog survives. This movie may be mediocre, but they’re not that foolish at Warner.) The comic...

A treasure trove of worthy ideas wasted in a movie that has no reason to exist In Toy Story 5 , our girl Bonnie receives a computer tablet t...

Demons and castles and the French Revolution A few years ago, I wrote approvingly of Jas Treadwell’s most excellent novel The Infernal Riddl...

‘To thine own self be true’ is a superpower Much like the 2005 movie Bewitched , the MCU series Wonder Man tells the story of the remake of...

The Ouroboros of sequelitis eats its tail Because every last bit of IP must be undusted for quick profit, this time we have a movie that jus...

T he second of the Queens of Villainy series Second in her fantasy series “The Queens of Villainy,”  Enchanting the Fae Queen continues Ste...

The  Avatar  saga remains faithful to its tried and true formula: visually breathtaking, narratively uninspired There are truly interesting ...

Sophie Burnham’s Bloodtide continues the Ex Romana trilogy started in Sargassa , peeling back more the story of Selah, her companions and r...

Memory defines dragons and Elderlings, but humans need less of it When last we left our intrepid band of misfits, they had finally arrived a...

The city of talking animals reveals a wider world in its past and its future Some movie premises, like “How did Han Solo get his last name?”...

To build a new society, you must understand what worked (and didn’t) about the old Dragon Haven is, at its heart, a meditation on self-dete...

Elen’s story continues and finishes in a land of lost magic, royal intrigue and much more The Nameless Land is the second half of the duo...