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Review: The Vampire Lestat – Anne Rice
After waking up from a deep slumber in the 80’s, Vampire Rock Star Lestat reflects on the life that’s brought him to this moment. From his mortal life in the 1700’s to the lives of vampires even more ancient, Lestat explores what it means to live forever.
Review: Interstellar – Christopher Nolan
On a future version of planet Earth that is quickly becoming uninhabitable for humanity, NASA plans to save the human race by sending them through a worm hole to new planet. Former NASA pilot, now farmer, Joseph Cooper is selected to lead a mission to travel through the wormhole and find a planet that will be able to sustain the human race.
Review: Kaos – Netflix
“A line appears, the order wanes, the family falls, and Kaos reigns.” This is the prophecy that haunts a tracksuit wearing Zeus, who desperately tries to stay relevant and powerful in modern day Greece. Meanwhile, Prometheus plots to make sure the prophecy comes true.
Review: What We Do In The Shadows – FX
What We Do In The Shadows is a mockumentary style series, following three vampires and one energy vampire who are roommates living on Staten Island, New York. As the show progresses, we are given a glimpse into what it’s like to be an ancient vampire living in a modern world. Meanwhile, vampire familiar Guillermo tries to help the vampires survive while hoping that one day, he will be turned into a vampire himself.
Review: Furthermore – Tahereh Mafi
Furthermore tells the story of Alice, who is a colourless girl in a magical, colourful world. She sets out to find her missing father and prove that she is just as magical as the colourful people who have made her feel like an outcast all her life.
Curator Question: 2025 Resolutions
Our Curators discuss their 2024 New Year’s Resolutions – what is on their to be read/watch/listen/play list for the coming year?
Yearly Wrap-up: 2024 in Review
Our curators look back at their 2024 resolutions, and their favourite fantasy and science fiction media of the past year. Which media on their to be read/watch/listen/play piles got their attention? And what else did the year bring?
Review: Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
Ketterdam is a place where anything and anyone can be bought for the right price, and the right price to get a group of teenage criminals to undertake a suicide mission is a whole lot of money. The question is: will they make it out alive to claim it?
Review: Dragon Age: The Veilguard – Bioware
A long search for the Dreadwolf culminates in the accidental release of Elven Gods Elgar’nan and Ghilan’nain from their ancient prison. You are Rook, a nobody who finds themselves leading a band of adventurers called the Veilguard, tasked with stopping the elven gods, and preventing the dreadwolf from tearing down the veil.
Review: Fallout – Amazon Prime
The bomb has gone off, but that doesn’t mean civilisation has to collapse. Deep underground, life goes on for a select few in the Vaults. 219 years later, Fallout follows Lucy Maclean, who has grown up with all the luxuries 1950’s life has to offer. After an incident in her vault, she ventures out into the wastes where she discovers what nuclear radiation has done to the people of America, in both mind and body.
Review: Shadow and Bone – Leigh Bardugo
Alina is an orphan who serves in the Ravkan army as a cartographer. Together with her childhood friend Mal, she is sent on a ship through the Shadowfold, a rift populated by monsters. As the ship finds itself attacked by the terrifying creatures that live in the fold, Alina discovers she has a rare gift that makes her very powerful but also places a target on her back.
Curator Question: Will you watch The Rings of Power season 2?
Another question for our curators: How do they feel about the second season of Amazon’s The Rings of Power? They watched season one together, to generally mediocre reviews…