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Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves – John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein
In a movie that feels eerily similar to playing a table top roleplaying game, a bard and a barbarian freshly out of imprisonment as a result of a heist going south are looking to gather a new party for – you guessed it – another heist to set everything right that went awry the last time.
Review: How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
In this interconnected short story collection, generations progressively further into the future attempt to deal with the impact of a devastating global pandemic and the countless dead on our society, focussing specifically on Japanese-American and Japanese perspectives.
Review: Inscryption – Devolver Digital
In this subversive rogue-like deck building point-and-click puzzle horror game (yes, all those descriptors apply!), you battle your way past various bosses, worlds, game mechanics, games interfaces, horror videos, puzzles, and your own sanity in an attempt to get to the other side of whatever it is you are trying to get to the other side of. Please don’t ask me to describe this game.
Review: Robinson Crusoë: Adventures on the Cursed Island – Portal Games
In this cooperative board game, the players each take the role of a survivor stranded on an unexplored island. As you build up shelter, gather food and craft tools, hunger starts to set in and the weather turns bad. Will you make it to the end of the game, or will the plucky survivors starve or be killed by the beasts of the jungle?
Review: The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
When an artefact from the Age of Legend is stolen, Rand and his friends set out to retrieve it, while the girls start their training in the use of the One Power.
Review: The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
A sheepherder from a country village is dragged into an adventurous life when his home is attacked by evil trollocs. A powerful mage and her sworn warder take him on a perilous journey of discoveries, hardship, and challenges.
Curator Question: How well would you survive in a zombie apocalypse?
How well do the curators think they’d thrive in a zombie apocalpyse?
Review: Ghost in the Shell – Mamoru Oshii
An almost completely prosthetic cyborg, is an agent in a shady police/intelligence unit tasked with counter-terrorism and cybersecurity in a near future Japan. When she finds the trail of a cybercriminal best known for hacking a person’s cerebral implants, she is pulled into a dangerous manhunt infused with questions of identity and humanness.
Review: Willow – Lucasfilm
Over twenty years after the defeat of Queen Bavmorda in the movie Willow, six adventurers set out on a dangerous rescue mission. Accompanied by the legendary sorcerer Willow himself, they must journey to far-off places and face their inner demons in order to defeat a great evil.
Review: Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
When the moon is struck by an asteroid, humanity must evacuate the surface of planet earth or go extinct in the firestorm of moon debris burning up in the atmosphere that will immolate the land and evaporate the oceans. Seveneves is the story of humanity trying their best to navigate the engineering of survival in orbit and the politics of the apocalypse.
Review: Hospital – Han Song
Yang Wei is whisked to a hospital when drinking a glass of water gives him a terrible stomach ache. The moment he crosses the hospital’s threshold, he is dragged ever deeper in the Clinical-Academic-Industrial-Complex of the Age of Medicine.
Review: Pacific Rim – Guillermo del Toro
Review of the movie Pacific Rim.
For several years now, giant monsters (Kaiju) have been coming up from the ocean and attacking coastal cities. Humanity built big old robots (Jaegers) to fight the Kaiju. This is humanity’s last stand.