Lights | Midnight Machines | Rating : 10/11| As the name implies, Midnight Machines is a gentle lullaby of an album. Imagine a nighttime breeze whispering dreams into your ears, revving up your imagination with delightful stories. Throughout her career, Canadian artist/synth-rocker Valerie Poxleitner (aka Lights) has proven that her songwriting is so strong that it can be showcased in two completely different genres: […]
Jane Steele: A Novel | Author: Lyndsay Faye | Rating: 9.5/11 | This seems to be the year for beloved classics to undergo an overhaul. However, it’s unfortunate that not all the remodels are anywhere near as fun as this one. Clever, flamboyant and nail-bitingly over-the-top, Lyndsay Faye’s latest novel is a bold re-imagining of Charlotte Brontë’s classic, Jane Eyre. […]
On the surface, iZombie is a show about a reluctant zombie mortician, Liv (Rose McIver), who uses the brain-eating side effect of seeing into the lives of her corpses to help solve the mysteries of their deaths. In season 2, the stakes have been heightened as the zombie world gets increasingly entangled with the murders of the living, the race […]
Fallen Land | Author: Taylor Brown | Rating: 10/11 | Dystopian literature has enjoyed a surge in popularity recently, with sagas such as The Hunger Games and the Divergent series captivating audiences both on the page and on the big screen. The genre often has plenty to say about the current political climate of the world, but still maintains a […]
My Golden Days (“Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse”) | Directed By: Arnaud Desplechin | Rating: 8/11 | My Golden Days (“Trois Souvenirs De Ma Jeunesse”) is undoubtedly French and deeply nostalgic. Director Arnaud Desplechin, who is known as “the Frenchest of French directors,” returns to the character of Paul Dedalus (Mathieu Amalric) who first appeared in My Sex Life…Or How I Got […]
Showrunner Emily Andras has a history of working on genre shows with really strong female protagonists (see Lost Girl, Killjoys) and IDW, Wynonna Earp‘s comic book publishing company, wanted a female show runner to take reins on this property. Naturally Andras felt like a perfect fit. When first approached with the property, Andras fell in love with Wynonna’s personality, which […]
Lincoln Durham | Revelations of a Mind Unraveling | Rating: 8.5 /11 | “I wish you peace when you’re flirting with that ol’ Grim Reaper / But in life, I hope you suffer my name” Lincoln Durham’s opening act of aggression on his third album, Revelations of a Mind Unraveling, consists of wishing you light and love all manner of niceties in […]
