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Bard Reviews: The Defenders

The idea of the Defenders was always interesting, not because of how well it would work, but how it badly it wouldn’t. This isn’t the MCU, after all. We’re talking four entirely different shows, each with a different feel and flavor to the characters and world building. Ask any two people which show is the best, and chances are you’ll get a different answer. Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage all have their passionate fans, after all. Personally, my ranking list goes Daredevil>Jessica Jo...

The Aberration Is Here!

BWB Publishing and Bard Constantine are proud and excited to announce the launch of Torment of Tantalus, the second installment in the terrifying Aberration series.

Synopsis: 

Bard Constantine returns to the surviving characters of his popular horror novel the Aberration for an even more immersive experience into inter-dimensional terror. The barriers preventing the ages-old threat of invading forces from the Other side are deteriorating, and the paladins that once protected humanity are all...

The Aberration Movie Cast

Horror movies are all the rage. In fact, its probably never been a better time for the production of horror films. So why isn’t the Aberration a movie? It has everything from terrifying original creatures to simmering psychological terror. It’s a claustrophobic nightmare, putting a small group of mill workers against an onslaught of shape-shifting creatures from a hellish dimension. And if ever put on screen, it’s guaranteed to scare the audience witless.

Until Hollywood catches on, I guess I...

The Aberration is Coming

Time flies, doesn’t it?

Between personal commitments and actual writing, I haven’t been as active online with alerts, blog posts, or clever repartee with my awesome readers the last few weeks.

But trust me, progress has been made.

Letters tagged one another to become sentences; sentences formed groups to become paragraphs, paragraphs expanded into chapters, and chapters conglomerated into a manuscript. Months of keyboard pounding, fingers cramping, cuticles bleeding; months of agonizing over...

Bard Reviews: Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is currently receiving rave reviews from critics and movie viewers alike, so it’s apparent WB and DC finally have the rousing blockbuster they’ve been yearning for. I personally found it be a good film, yet one nearly derailed by its third act.

To elaborate: I loved the beginning of the film, where we watch Diana grow from a special child (the only one on her island) to a powerful young warrior. Connie Neilson and Robin Wright are spectacular in their roles as Hippolyta, the quee...

Bard Reviews~ Alien: Covenant

I saw Alien Covenant this afternoon on an Imax screen, munching and sipping on overpriced popcorn and soda. The final tally: somewhere around $27. If I’m going to put up that much cold hard cash on a movie, it better be good.

Lo and behold: when I left the theater, I wasn’t thinking about the money at all.

I’m not going to say Covenant is a great film. It’s not. But I enjoyed it. It’s been clearly noted that Ridley Scott heard all the commotion from crying fans over no xenomorphs in Prometheu...

Bard Reviews: Revisiting Prometheus

I was severely disappointed the first time I saw Prometheus. Mainly because the script appeared to be one of those that purposely try to befuddle the audience by holding back answers, all to cause of having a smart or clever film. Combine that with a movie that couldn’t make up its mind about being a space saga or a space horror flick, and you end up with a disjointed, messy piece of film. Not to mention the strangely unlikable and shallow crew of characters, Shaw and David being the only exc...

Bard Book Reviews: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I watched the movie before the book, and wanted to read the source material behind one of the most depressing yet oddly enjoyable films I’ve seen.

Turns out the books was pretty much the same: depressing but enjoyable.

The major thing the movie couldn’t translate is the poetry of McCarthy’s prose. He possesses the ability to use sparse, simple language the way a master artist might paint a deceptively simple landscape. There’s magic in between his words, creating a melancholy beauty to even t...

Bard Reviews: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

I watched the movie before the book, and wanted to read the source material behind one of the most depressing yet oddly enjoyable films I’ve seen.

Turns out the books was pretty much the same: depressing but enjoyable.

The major thing the movie couldn’t translate is the poetry of McCarthy’s prose. He possesses the ability to use sparse, simple language the way a master artist might paint a deceptively simple landscape. There’s magic in between his words, creating a melancholy beauty to even t...

Bard Book Reviews: Songs of Insurrection

Songs of Insurrection attracted my attention by it’s beautiful cover, and the fact that I’ve been looking for fantasy story devoid of Western medieval tropes for a change. SOI is a pretty good book. I enjoyed the main characters and the mix of action and intrigue. The main character is an emperor’s daughter named Kaiya, who is an unattractive teen girl. That in itself is something of a novelty. You just don’t come across that too often in novels, especially in main characters. She has a remar...