Don't listen to all the grumpy reviews. Terminator Dark Fate is one of the best popcorn films I've seen in ages. Great action set pieces, strong acting, and Granbo Linda Hamilton is worth the price of admission even without all of that.

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Recommended: YesWow, this particular storyline is fantastic. I really enjoyed it ( Read more... )

Recommended: Yes

I was pleased with several aspects of this title. In particular, I finally got to meet Morbius the Living Vampire, who I was pretty curious about. That ended up going better than expected. And then, of course, there's Venom vs a goblin army and that was always going to be fun...


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Recommended: No.

Reporting back on my next stop on reading the back-catalogue of Venom, I have bad news this time.

Okay, I had a lot of anticipation for this series, because it’s billed as the backstory for Eddie Brock.

Unfortunately I have to anti-rec this one, as I barely made it through the first issue, and don’t plan to read the rest. The issue ( Read more... )

Recommended: Yes.

This one is weird, but I enjoyed it. I feel like I’m going to be saying that a lot about canon in this fandom.

I had high hopes for this story for two reasons - the title made it obvious it would deal with Eddie and Venom being apart, which is intrinsically interesting at this point, and I also knew that some of the Symbabies ( Read more... )

Recommended: Yes.

I’d forgotten how much cognitive dissonance there was reading American superhero comics. It’s such a weird window into the American psyche.

To be fair, Venom: Lethal Protector (written by David Michelinie) was published in the 90s, so it’s dated in some respects - Eddie’s crop top and mullet for a start. But some of the other ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying season three a lot so far. There's some good character development, while still having interesting shades of grey, episodes are fairly tightly written, representation is better, and there's some great dialogue.

Below the cut are some thoughts, theories and speculations...

( Spoilers for TW S3, up to 303 )

It's so weird. Teen Wolf 301 actually makes two of my current WIPs more plausible. That's not supposed to happen. :)

No concrete spoilers below, it's all generalities.

Overall, I liked the episode. It opened up some interesting new questions. My favourite characters are still my favourites. The women got more screen time and were interesting. The new ( Read more... )

Went to see nuTrek2.

Very minor spoilers below; I don't mention anything specific, but I do talk about things in general terms, so if you don't want to know anything at all, don't read ( Read more... )

Saw Brave yesterday. Awesome. I highly recommend it ( Read more... )