It doesn’t happen very often that a premiere of a television show can grab my attention like Vikings has. Let’s face it. Typically, I’m your horror, gore, haunting, terror fan. I do love shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Sons of Anarchy, but in Vikings I found a show that is a little different and yet amazing. The History Channel [...]
What does the ultimate video game look like? And what’s the most important element to any good game? Austin Grossman’s newest novel answers both questions with the same word: YOU. While I play quite a few video games, I am not, from what I understand, a Gamer. I enjoy games mostly for the story they create [...]
Like many Marvel fans, I’ve been suffering severe withdrawals. It’s been an entire year since The Avengers took the world by storm, a period of time that has proved far too long for those itching to see where the architects over at Marvel are going to take their shared universe. Thank God the wait is over; a [...]
Blope is one of those books. I don’t to say it is a classic or a novel written in the manner of some long dead patron of the arts. Instead, Blope is one of those damned-if-I’m-going-to-set-it-down books. At least, I wasn’t going to set it down until I finally knew where all of the threads of the story [...]
This week we’re featuring author Sean Benham and his new novel Blope. For those of you who have never heard of Sean or his book, Sean is a professional in the Canadian animation industry by day, novelist by night. He lives in Toronto. What’s the book about? Check it: Son of Satan and Grandson of the Messiah, [...]
Anyone who has ever sat down and watched a zombie movie with me knows that I am fairly forgiving to any film about my favorite brain munching shamblers. Unless the movie is a completely unforgivable train wreck, I usually am able to identify a few fun parts or gruesome ones. With the film Zombieland (and even the low [...]
Oblivion was not at the top of my list of movies to see when its trailer premiered some months ago. Even as trailers and footage began to trickle in as the film’s released loomed closer, I remained steadfast in my decision to not see the movie. Well, I cracked, and I’m glad I did. Oblivion is [...]
If you’re a fan of massively thick, sprawling worldbuildling, rich with history fantasies like I am, you are going to love River of Stars. However, it might take a while to get into. On page one, I doubted I would finished the book. My first thought was if the writer really didn’t know a single grammatical [...]
Jacob Reckless is going to die. And an entire magical world at his disposal hasn’t managed to yield anything to change that…until now. A tomb has been uncovered, and rumors have it that it hold both the body of the Witchslayer and his magical crossbow. The legends say the crossbow comes with three arrows. The first, [...]
When expectations are high, money is tight, love is tainted and stress is ubiquitous, the citizens of Chase County will do anything to make sure they survive. From the deconstruction of a town to frivolous intercourse with strangers, No-Injury Policy explores the dark depths of human nature when social pressures peak. No sooner than the meek [...]
