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Vampyr (2018) review

    VAMPYR is the third game from DONTNOD entertainment, which had the somewhat missable (arguably forgettable) Remember Me and the video game classic LIFE IS STRANGE. It is a pseudo-Victorian (technically Edwardian) story about a vampire created during the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918 where 500 million people died. That's roughly ten times as many people died during the Black Death, by the way.

    The protagonist, Jonathan Reid, is a brilliant blood specialist w...

Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series review

    This is a review which is a long time coming and I had a problem coming up with what I thought of the series as a whole. The ending felt unsatisfying to me in many ways, even frustrating, but I was tuned to every episode when they popped up on Showtime until the very end. The original run of Twin Peaks remains my all-time favorite show and I've re-watched it multiple times. I wasn't sure I loved it the first time but it had a way of burying itself deep into my brain before...

Detroit: Become Human review

    I've got mixed feelings toward David Cage's video games. I generally like that someone is creating adult based storytelling-focused adventure games. It's nice to have someone working to elevate the medium and I consider Heavy Rain to be a classic. I also liked Fahrenheit (a.k.a Indigo Prophecy). Unfortunately, his games are ones which suffer for the fact they're not at all that much fun to play. Still, I was interested in the subject matter of Detroit: Beyond Human since I'...

I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER on sale

 Hey folks,

Good news folks! If you haven't picked up a copy of I WAS A TEENAGE WEREDEER, it is on sale for 2.99 on Kindle for the next three weeks. From June 5th to June 23rd. 

Jane Doe is a weredeer, the least-threatening shapechanger species in the world. Blessed with the ability to turn furry at will and psychically read objects, Jane has done her best to live a normal life working as a waitress at the Deerlightful Diner. She has big dreams of escaping life in the supernatural-fil...

The Dresden Files: Brief Cases review

    BRIEF CASES is the second collection of short stories by Jim Butcher. The first one, SIDE JOBS was one I tremendously enjoyed because it was a nice mixture of Harry Dresden stories as well as his supporting cast. I also enjoyed seeing more of the Formor, who are my favorite of Jim Butcher's creations even if they mostly serve as cannon fodder and mooks following the destruction of the Red Court.

    Brief Cases is a very entertaining collection of short storie...

Kreative Joose: Review: An American Weredeer in Michigan by C.T. Phipps

Kreative Joose: Review: An American Weredeer in Michigan by C.T. P...: Life is not easy for the world's first weredeer detective. A simple hike turns into a media circus when Jane Doe, her best friend E...

Tomb Raider (2018) review

    So, yeah, this wasn't very good. Lara Croft is one of the dominant female heroines in genre fiction at present with the problem of being one step forward, a backflip in place, and then a handstand. I absolutely loved Tomb Raider's 2013 reboot as a game franchise, even as it put our poor heroine through hell. I was less enthusiastic about the sequel, Rise of the Tomb Raider, which made her a somewhat unlikable plunderer of local Russian artifacts versus an anti-Catholic cons...

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th review

    I have a confession to make: I absolutely love the Friday the 13th series. I was born a little too young to be part of when it was a mega-sensation (i.e. I was a teenager in the 90s rather than the 80s) but I came to lose Jason Voorhees through the magic of VHS. Which, for those of you who have no idea what those initials means, were magical boxes that contained images as well as the souls of dead unicorns.

    Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Fr...

Song by Jesse Teller

    I read Song by Jesse Teller twice because I needed time to appreciate the book. It is an excellent fantasy novel which chronicles the adventures of Rayph Ivoryfist. Well, sort of. Rayph Ivoryfist is not the typical wet behind the ears farmboy or grizzled mercenary in these kind of stories. He is an archmage and in many respects, THE archmage of his home kingdom. Unfortunately, Rayph does not suffer fools gladly and this has gotten him trouble with the present king of his na...

Star Wars: Solo review

    Presently, Solo isn't looking too good at the box office. This is due to the fact it is a production with a severely overinflated budget and a lot of reshoots. Basically, the movie cost $300 million dollars to make and it probably won't get that back, making it the only Star Wars movie which might actually bomb.

Who doesn't want to be Han Solo?    A lot of people are questioning whether this is because of The Last Jedi's divisive narrative (I'm one of the peo...