This International Women’s Day, I’m celebrating books and characters featuring fierce, powerful, vulnerable, galvanizing women. From Meg in A Wrinkle In Time, to Olive in The Love Hypothesis, the real life indigenous women in Adrienne Keene’s Notable Native People, and…
TikTok, Phish and 100 Years of Cinema: Getting Through 2020
We don’t need to tell you how tough 2020 has been and yet, it would seem flippant if we didn’t address the elephant in the room that has re-established how we process time, handle grief and nurture relationships. Aside from…
Classic Ships That Need a Revisionist Retelling (or Not)
Bookworms love a good retelling. Some romantic ships, like Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, we will read or watch over and over, in every possible setting, without ever getting tired. Oftentimes, authors write retellings because there is something…
A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Into The Lord of the Rings
To celebrate National Tolkien Reading Day (March 25), which in my opinion deserves its status as a national holiday, we must acknowledge that we would not have the fantasy genre as we know it today without Tolkien’s immortal work. This…
Middle Earth: Shadow of War Review
Full Spoilers for 2014’s Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and brief spoilers for Shadow of War follow. The Lord of the Rings is one of my all time favorite franchises. The books, movies, and video game adaptations of the…
Amazon Acquires TV Rights To ‘Lord of the Rings’
Yet another chapter in the history of unnecessary remakes has begun. And this one may be even more unnecessary than most. This time it comes courtesy of Amazon, who has just announced that it’s bought the television rights to The…
Top 10 Inspirational Speeches from Movies and TV
There’s our favorite movies, our favorite characters, our favorite scenes, our favorite one liners. Movies and TV are full of them, and they get talked about all the time. Arguments erupt, friendships end (quite possibly, some relationships too) over whether…