Author: Domonic Riley
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The Biggest Easter Eggs in ‘Ghostbusters Frozen Empire’
The latest entry in the Ghostbusters franchise has some good callbacks to past movies
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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ (2021) Review
Creating a brand new franchise is hard work, and it’s always going to be simpler to just take an existing one and reboot it. You have a fanbase already established, a world to throw your characters and story into, and hopefully enough recognition to make a hit. It’s a simple…
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‘The Bad Batch’ Episode 8 Review
While it’s a fun diversion, the Bad Batch episode eight feels like too much of an indulgence as the show reaches its final few episodes
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‘The Bad Batch’ Episodes 6 and 7 Review
This week we were treated to a double dose of Star Wars content as episodes six and seven of The Bad Batch were released together, bringing us close to the halfway point of the show. In many ways, these two episodes felt a lot like The Clone Wars. They featured…
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‘The Bad Batch’ Episode 5 Review
The Bad Batch is a series made up of peaks and valleys. When it’s good, it’s excellent, but when it’s bad it’s mundane and derivative. After the high point of the first three episodes the fourth nosedived into filler and a largely flimsy story, losing the momentum of the premiere.…
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Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule Book Review
Light of the Jedi is the first book in the multimedia Star Wars project set in the centuries before The Phantom Menace, in an era known as The High Republic. While this is one of the most popular books in the franchise, it has a lot of faults; faults that…
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‘Dune’ (2021) Review
There are some books that seem to be unadaptable. Lord of the Rings is one, which had an unsatisfactory first attempt, followed by a much more successful one a few decades later. Another story that followed much the same path was James Herbert’s Dune. First there was the largely unloved…
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‘Dune: Part Two’ Review
Expanding on its predecessor, Dune: Part Two offers compelling characters, explosive action, and stunning visuals to create a rewarding movie experience.
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‘The Bad Batch’ Episode 4 Review
The fourth episode of The Bad Batch might just have that terrible name of “filler” hanging over it. I know the purpose was to build the relationship between Crosshair and Omega, but this was something that could have been done differently, and preferably at a different time. It would have…
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‘Heir to the Empire’ by Timothy Zahn Book Review
I recently started my journey into Star Wars literature with ‘Heir to the Empire’, the first book in Timothy Zahn’s trilogy from the 1990s, now classified as a Legends novel by Disney. It holds a special place in the Star Wars fandom for its introduction of Chiss master strategist Grand…
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