Comics
STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS bows out with two Hugo Awards
Via Locus magazine, Star Trek: Lower Decks (both the show and its tie-in comics) won two prizes at this year’s Hugo Awards, honoring the best sci-fi and fantasy-related works of 2024....
TV Shows
Big Brother Spoilers: Veto Winner Threatens to Derail Rachel’s Head of Household
With Rachel in power on Big Brother, it was inevitable that there would be a lot of back and forth.Ahead of nominating Mickey, Morgan, and Vince for eviction, she didn’t want anyone to know where her head was...
TV Shows
Did True Love Prevail Over Destiny on Providence Falls: Thief of Fate?
While I initially longed for an entire series, the Providence Falls film trilogy exceeded my expectations.It featured the heart of Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets’ novels, while adapting them to the Hallmark Channel’s audience, with more romance and a...
Curiosities
Photos claiming to show Russian man saving drowning bear in Lake Tahoe tell a different story
Claim:
Online photographs show Ivan Stepanov, a Russian tourist, saving a drowning bear beneath the Tallac Bridge in South Lake Tahoe.
Rating:
A seemingly heartwarming story of an animal rescue spread like wildfire across social media in August 2025. The story, accompanied...
Comics
Alien Books addresses accusations of transphobic dialogue in VALIANT BEYOND: BLOODSHOT #1
In their attempt to follow current trends, such as Marvel’s Ultimates, DC’s Absolute, and Skybound’s...
TV Shows
The Summer Jeremiah Turned Villain: Screw Endgames, I Want a Crashout!
I can’t figure out if The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s final season is Bonrad’s love story or Jeremiah’s villain origin story.If I didn’t know any better, in a world where we could collectively have a bit more fun with...
Comics
Manga Review: MY DEATH FLAGS SHOW NO SIGN OF ENDING, Vol. 1 is isekai chaos at its best
My Death Flags Show No Sign of EndingStory & Art: Mitsuya OtosuPublisher: One Peace Books (Print & Digital)Publication Date: June 17, 2025Rating: TeenGenre: Manga, Fantasy, Action-Adventure
Normal college student Kazuki Hirasawa finds himself inside the body of...
Movies
Locarno Film Festival 2025: “Tabi to Hibi,” “Hair, Paper, Water…,” “Yakushima’s Illusion” | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
Memory is a funny thing. It can form and unwind us, ground and unmoor us. It can also trick us, probably because it’s so aligned with the fluidity of time. In this latest Locarno dispatch, there are three films...
Books
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels
Nearly a quarter of a century ago when I published my first novel, Haweswater, about the impact of dam-building in north-west England, nature writing felt quite different, at least for me. Several landmark novels about climate apocalypse and survivalism had been...
Latest News
Trump faces major headache with incidents in Qatar and Poland
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondentReutersA post on Truth Social did eventually – and inevitably – come."What's with Russia violating Poland's airspace...