With their debut album, About U, MUNA creates a record that’s undoubtedly going to stick around for awhile and be on plenty of year-end lists—and which is undoubtedly one of the first great records of 2017. MUNA is a three…
Top 10 Disney Couples
The new Beauty and the Beast live-action remake hits theaters next month, and it’s generating a whole lot of buzz, mostly about whether it can live up to its 1991 predecessor, which was the first animated film to be nominated…
TV Review: The Magicians 2×03 “Divine Elimination”
There a moment in “Divine Elimination” where despite creepy crawly, tattoo demons and Julia’s continued quest to capture the trickster god that raped her, it felt as if the episode was going to lean itself heavily on the lighter, rompish…
TV Review: Taboo Episode 5
If there’s one thing that Taboo taught us this week, it’s that when it comes to gunpowder, it is better to make it at a slow and steady pace than to rush the process and potentially blow everything up. That…
TV Review: Legion Series Premiere – “Chapter 1”
The following review contains spoilers for the premiere episode of Legion. The X-Men franchise has, strangely enough, become the home for auteur storytelling in the superhero landscape. Last year, we got the unapologetically vulgar and cartoonish Deadpool and in March,…
Interview: Rhoda Belleza, author of Empress of a Thousand Skies
I’m thrilled to be a stop on the blog tour for Empress of a Thousand Skies. Rhoda Belleza’s debut novel features space opera action, a badass female main character, and a Lunar Chronicles-esque vibe. Check out our interview to learn…
TV Review: The 100 4×02 “Heavy Lies the Crown”
If anything, beyond the relationships that keep our eyes glued to the screens, The 100 is about choices and, more often than not, the nearly impossible choices people in leadership positions must make for their people, for good or bad. We’ve seen…