PG-13 on Disney+, 2025 “End of days. We all gotta learn how to laugh.” Well said, Mole Man—sorry, Harvey Elder—after throwing an astute jab at every one of the Fantastic Four. In a 1960s-styled future, a world of art deco comes to life with as many real (vs CGI) sets...
Author: Cixin Liu, 2008 (English translation, by Ken Liu) A cerebral review for a cerebral book. What do aliens, video games, religion, nanotech, colonization, weapons, the Chinese cultural revolution, dimensional folding, and the elusive mathematical three-body...
Disney/Pixar, 2025. Rating PG How do we prevent people from becoming bullies? Employ silliness. Elio is a genuinely heart-warming adventure worth a happy tear or two and deserving of more than its 6.8 IMDb rating for its intelligent creativity, humanizing effect, and...
Author: George Owell, 1949 Recommended 16+ The dream of human intimacy in a hellish setting Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four disturbed me as a teen. I hoped after 25 years I might process it more clearly but what I found worsened the malaise, though Orwell’s genius also...
Author: Lindsay Ellis, 2020 Axiom’s End is a good read for someone wanting a gentle pace, moderate tension, and creative science fiction concepts. Cora Sabino wants nothing to do with her father, a conspiracy theorist who announces proof that the US government...
