Books

This article contains spoilers for The Wheel of Time. Although the first season of The Wheel of Time departed in many ways from The Eye of the World, the Robert Jordan novel upon which it is based, the elements it included and left out give us some clues as to where the series might be
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Ubisoft’s recent decision to bring Ubisoft+ to Xbox and Rainbow Six Extraction to Game Pass as a day one title has created a lot of (understandable) confusion about whether or not Ubisoft+ is also coming to Game Pass and PS5 in the near future. Let’s start with what we know for sure. As noted above,
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When the musical version of The Producers first began previews on Broadway in 2001, an incident made headlines after an irate audience member stood up and began pacing the aisles of the St. James Theatre. “Where is Mel Brooks?” he is reported to have shouted. “This is an outrage!” Brooks—the composer, lyricist, writer, and actual
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Another year of pure Yellowstone TV dominance has come and gone. Fans can quibble with whether Yellowstone season 4 and its all out war saga was creativity successful or not, but what cannot be denied is the awesome ratings power of this Taylor Sheridan-created Paramount Network series. In its fourth season, Yellowstone was once again
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Ring in the New Year with exorcisms, dreamscapes, and a true crime writer’s take on a haunted house. Read on for January 2022’s top horror tales long and short! The Wakening by JG Faherty Type: NovelPublisher: Flame Tree PressRelease date: Jan. 18 Den of Geek says: 2022 could use an exorcism to kick things off,
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The top sci-fi books in January 2022 see the world transformed in myriad ways, from an Arctic plague to a UFO sighting to fleeing Earth for the stars. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Type: NovelPublisher: William MorrowRelease date: Jan. 18 Den of Geek says: Sequoia Nagamatsu’s debut promises to be
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It’s a new year and Disney+ is ringing in 2022 the say way it ushered out 2021: with lots of Boba. That’s right, Disney+’s list of new releases for January 2022 is highlighted by The Book of Boba Fett. Though the series starring everyone’s favorite bounty hunter in Mandalorian armor (or maybe second favorite now
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Warning: this review contains spoilers for Doctor Who ‘Eve of the Daleks’ “You go through all those presents and right at the end, tucked away at the bottom, there’s always one stupid old satsuma. Who wants a satsuma?” Surprisingly prescient words, spoken by the newly-minted Tenth Doctor all those Christmases ago. After all, we as
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Really, this one’s all about Pig isn’t it? The film in which Nicolas Cage plays a chef who embarks on a mission to retrieve his kidnapped best friend – a truffle-foraging pig. If you don’t want to watch that at least twice in January, then you may be beyond help. Other than that, Sky Cinema
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This review of The Expanse contains spoilers. The Expanse Season 6 Episode 4 It’s official: The Expanse is clearly treating its final season as though the story were continuing, leaving it up to the viewers to decide where everyone will end up. The emotional beats in “Redoubt” were wonderful and would have been right at
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Last year, we said “…every work of art made in [2020] is a small miracle. Every comic creator who put irons in the fire in a year that certainly didn’t lack fires deserves gratitude and commendation.” That’s no less true in 2021, a year where days felt like months and each month somehow also passed
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And just like that (not be confused with And Just Like That…), another year of television is in the books. In terms of pop culture, 2021 was never going to be as strange and surreal as when the whole world shut down in 2020. Still, this year of TV wasn’t necessarily the return to normalcy
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but a Jeopardy! contestant is absolutely dominating the field right now.  Current champion Amy Schneider of Oakland, California is currently riding a 19-game winning streak in the venerable American quiz show. Many of those 19 victories have been absolute laughers, with Schneider leaving her opponents in the
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