Tag: Science Fiction
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The Shape of Water (2017) Film Review
This isn’t a love story in the way people usually mean it. It’s a story about who gets to be loved at all. Guillermo del Toro doesn’t romanticize romance. He romanticizes the outcast. The quiet ones. The ones who don’t translate well. The ones the world keeps in the margins and then pretends not to see. This…
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Misfits (2009) – UK TV Series Review
Misfits follows a group of young adults who are forced to do community service together until a strange electrical storm strikes the city and suddenly gives them superpowers, but not the glamorous kind. Their powers reflect their deepest insecurities: invisibility, mind-reading, uncontrollable sexuality, time reversal, rage. Instead of turning them into heroes, the powers throw them…
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Mass Effect Sci Fi RPG Video Game Review
I discovered Mass Effect almost ten years after its first release. I wasn’t looking for a video game to play per se. I was writing sci-fi stories at the time and wanted some inspiration when it came to world-building, something immersive enough to pull me into another world for a while. What I ended up…
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Honestly, Vanessa 