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Another strange, downright sci-fi year has come and gone. What better way to celebrate 2021’s demise and prepare for what 2022 holds in store than with a heaping dose of Twilight Zone? The annual Twilight Zone New Year’s Day Marathon is set to continue on SYFY this New Year. The marathon spans three days, from

As a former children’s librarian, I’ve read a lot of picture books. Some, I return to again and again, whether for story time or for my own enjoyment (listen, while Penguin Problems doesn’t work for a large group of babies and toddlers, I love that book; it’s hilarious). Many of those books are old standards

Season 2 hasn’t even come out, but apparently, Netflix is already talking to the creator of Squid Game about season 3. “It wasn’t that long ago that Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t seem up for more Squid Game, telling Variety, ‘It is quite tiring just thinking about it.’ Then, the show exploded in popularity around the world,

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This Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett review contains spoilers. The Book of Boba Fett Episode 1 For a while now, December has been Star Wars time. With the movie slate wiped clean, this year’s holiday season premiere is the smaller scale The Book of Boba Fett, which already feels fated for a more

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Many mysteries surround The Batman‘s main villain. The movie not only introduces a version of the Riddler unlike any we’ve ever seen, complete with a mask and duct tape, but one who also has a deep connection and obsession with Bruce Wayne. What are the ties that bind these two characters together in the film?

I wasn’t a huge fan of school as a kid. Being forced to study Punnett Squares and imaginary numbers really isn’t my idea of a good time. Fortunately, I had strict parents who forced me to listen to my teachers and actually turn my homework in on time. Don’t get me wrong. I was actually

With The Book of Boba Fett about to drop this week, let’s look ahead to other upcoming Star Wars series in 2022, specifically Andor starring Diego Luna. “Disney and Lucasfilm have the most of the Star Wars franchise by bringing new stories to Disney+. While fans of The Mandalorian are waiting on Season 3, the folks over at Lucasfilm are

Content warning: this post discusses mental illness and suicide, including descriptions of insensitive depictions of these topics. The poet Sylvia Plath’s legacy lives on in nearly every avenue of pop culture. There’s the literary world, of course, which has created many a Plath biography, or a collection of poetry inspired by her work, or a

Film director Jean-Marc Vallée, who made movies such as Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, has passed away at age 58. “Jean-Marc Vallée, the director of the Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club and two HBO series, Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, died suddenly at the age of 58. Per The Associated Press, a representative confirmed he died at his cabin outside

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Many have called 2021 a slow year for video games, and we certainly understand why. Game development is hard enough without having to deal with the challenges of working during the COVID-19 pandemic, systemic issues within the industry, hardware shortages, and a variety of other factors that have led to some of the delays and

Essential YA Nonfiction: A Guide to Reading Widely was originally published in our YA newsletter, What’s Up In YA. Sign up for it here to get YA news, reviews, deals, and more! We know YA nonfiction isn’t as popular as YA fiction for a host of reasons, and I’ve written here numerous times about how it’s often

This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. Dexter: New Blood Episode 8 I wrote at length last week about how Dexter: New Blood has its foot on the brake rather than the gas late in the season, a problem that suggested maybe a 10-episode order was too much time to fill. That criticism is given

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 6. With “Stormy Weather,” Star Trek: Discovery celebrates the Trek tradition of getting some excellent musical standards into the bold voyages in the final frontier. With Picard, it was a call back to “Blue Skies,” but now, we’ve got a new version of the

The Best SFF Series of 2021 was originally published in our science fiction and fantasy newsletter, Swords & Spaceships. Sign up for it here to receive news and recommendations from the world of science fiction and fantasy. In December, I like to take some time to look back over the year and spotlight some books

What would you do if you knew an asteroid was going to crash into the Earth in six months time?  Lie, spin, profiteer, bicker, undermine the science, ignore the warnings and do nothing useful whatsoever according to Adam McKay’s bleak apocalyptic satire Don’t Look Up. In it Meryl Streep’s corrupt female Trump-alike president, flanked by