Favorite Movie of the Week The Green Mile (1999) I’ve been wanting to watch The Green Mile for a really long time – The Shawshank Redemption is one of my…
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Favorite Movies of the Week Broadcast News (1987) Jane Craig (Holly Hunter) is a news producer who is very good at her job but also has daily emotional breakdowns. She…
Read more“Lock In” by John Scalzi
After reading The Collapsing Empire, I was in the mood to read more Scalzi, and luckily, I’ve had Lock In on my to-be-read list ever since it came out. Lock…
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Midnight Special (2016) I remember watching the trailer for Midnight Special last year and being intrigued but not knowing quite what to make of it. It seemed like maybe it…
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Favorite Movie of the Week Silence (2016) I’ve been looking forward to watching this movie ever since I first heard about it. Martin Scorsese has been trying to make the…
Read more“A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers
The first thing I did after I read The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet last month was pre-ordering this book, so it’s probably an understatement to say that…
Read more“Sins of Empire” by Brian McClellan
Brian McClellan’s Powder Mage trilogy is one of my favorite new fantasy series’, and I’ve been looking forward to the new trilogy set in the same world ever since Brian…
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Favorite Movie of the Week Bull Durham (1988) I like sports movies, but since I’m not a sports fan, I only like them so much. Bull Durham is exceptional, though,…
Read more“Green Rider” by Kristen Britain
Karigan G’ladheon has just been suspended from her school for getting into a fight with an influential noble’s son. As she’s making her way home, she runs into a dying…
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A Bronx Tale (1993) Calogero Anello is a young Italian-American growing up in a mob-dominated part of the Bronx. He’s fascinated by the gangster lifestyle, and idolizes the local boss,…
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