Over the years there have been quite a few movies and tv shows that feature women kicking ass in different ways. Some of them use their fists, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Sydney Bristow; others use bows and arrows, like Susan Pevensie and Merida. I have a soft spot for the ones who carry […]
This article contains spoilers for the CW’s Arrow through season 3 episode 11, “Midnight City.” Tread with caution. Team Arrow is is having a bad time lately. Oliver’s death threw a wrench into the way they work. All of them are grieving; Felicity is diving into her work and an apparent new superhero setup with […]
This article contains spoilers for the Mass Effect franchise. If you have yet to play it, tread carefully! There’s no denying it: Mass Effect is my favorite game franchise of all time. I’ve played the game a ton of times, making different choices along the way. I have played as both renegade and paragon, and […]
I watch a lot of TV. I’m not sure how, exactly, I fit it all in, but I do with minimal issues. Sometimes I fall a few weeks behind, but for the most part I manage to keep up, at least with my favorites (and anything involving Gordon Ramsay). In a few of these shows, […]
For some reason, it is incredibly hard for movie studios to take a book and translate it to screen without royally screwing it up. To my mind, the best book-to-film adaptations in recent memory are the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hunger Games movies (so far). To make a truly good book adaptation, […]
This post contains spoilers through Agents of SHIELD season 1, as well as cast interview information and speculation on where the show will go in season 2. The first season of Agents of SHIELD was kind of a bumpy ride. For those of us that stuck with it, it definitely picked up in the back half […]
We’ve all been there at one time or another: there’s a panel we just have to see covering the coolest, most popular recent pop culture behemoth (my guesses for this year’s longest lines: anything to do with Guardians of the Galaxy or Arrow). These panels always draw the biggest crowds to the biggest ballrooms, which means you have to […]
This article contains Game of Thrones book spoilers through book 5, A Dance with Dragons. Tread carefully. Game of Thrones season 4 episode 4, titled “Oathkeeper” very likely jumped ahead in the plot of the long-running series by George R.R. Martin, which isn’t completely unprecedented for the show. Now that the season has run its […]