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Your Name. (2016) review
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Your Name. is a beautiful film. It starts off as a sort of Freaky Friday situation where the two main characters, a boy, Taki, from Tokyo, and Mtsuha, a girl from a rural village, wake up on random days having switched bodies. It quickly turns into a deeply emotional look at teenage life and that...
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Silk Road review
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After finishing ilium I needed a palate cleanser, so I went back to what's probably my favorite genre: historical fiction. Colin Falconer and Silk Road have been on my list for a while.
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Frankenstein (2025) review
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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is a movie I've been looking forward to for a while, being a fan of both the director and the source material. While Frankenstein deviates from the source, it's a creative, engaging re-imagination of the tale and well worth a watch.
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Berserk vol 8 review
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I think this is my favorite volume of Berserk yet. It's light on the massive-scale battles seen in earlier battles, but still has a bit of fighting to go along with tons of character development and spectacular art as always.
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Ilium review
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Ilium is one of the more ambitious books I've read. It's got just about everything: A retelling of the Iliad set in the far future on Mars, observed by a 21st century scholar. Humans, still on Earth, live for 100 years of ignorant bliss before ascending to the "rings" in Earth orbit to live in...
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Berserk vol 7 review
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Another great volume. Not a ton to say here that hasn't already been said
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