Reviews

Although we mainly focus on reviews of movies and TV or streaming series, we have a wide array of reviews here at Cosmic Circus. This includes concerts, tech and other products, travel, games, books, and comics.

Refer to the Stellar Picks archive to find some of our top-rated movies, shows, books, games, and more!


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‘Herald of Ruin’ by Tim Pratt Book Review

Carl Sanford is the de facto king of Arkham. As the Magus of the Silver Twilight Lodge, there is nothing he doesn’t have his hands in. But that’s before a new player comes to town. Tillinghast purports to be a humble shopkeeper, hardly worth Sanford’s notice. But he has quietly begun undermining Sanford, subtly stealing his town out from under him.

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‘Doctor Who’ Season 1 Reflections & Next Season Talk (Cosmic Circle Podcast Ep. 57)

It’s hard to believe that Doctor Who season 1 on Disney + is over when it feels like it’s just started. Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the 15th Doctor is over, but that doesn’t stop the excitement that we’re feeling about it. From the moment that Gatwa appeared on our screens in the third special to him meeting his companion Ruby

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Apple TV+’s ‘Wondla’: A Sci-Fi Adventure for the Whole Family

WondLa is a recent animated series released on Apple TV+, an adaptation of the book trilogy by author Tony DiTerlizzi (if this name sounds familiar, he also worked on The Spiderwick Chronicles series). In this story, it’s a singular human (or hoo-man as pronounced in the show) Eva who’s come up from a bunker after an attack forces her to the surface.

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Netflix’s ‘SupaCell’ is a Slowburn Superhero Series

How far would you go to save someone you love? For most of us, the answer is clear-we’d go to the ends of the Earth. This human desire, however, is bound by limitations. But what if you had superpowers? The possibilities and lengths you could go to would be nearly endless. We all know the saying, “With great power comes great

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Book Review: ‘The Lost Sunlion’ by Lee Newbery (Last Firefox Series)

It’s been raining for weeks. Bryncastell is so flooded that everything is shut down and people have just been stuck in their homes. With an energetic firefox, that isn’t easy. Charlie is doing his best to keep Cadno busy when something shocking happens, Cadno suddenly goes from being a firefox to being an electric fox! Charlie isn’t sure what caused this

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Review: ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ is Empathetic, Tense, and Surprising

The late Roger Ebert once gave Jurassic Park a lukewarm 3-star review, broadly criticizing the movie for lacking the subtle nature of Jaws. For him, the monster movie approach in that movie hindered his experience and felt messy in character writing. The film critic’s gripes mainly were that there were too many monsters, and the monsters did not take a back seat

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Death Comes to ‘Doctor Who’ in Spectacular Season Finale

The anticipation for the first season of the new phase of Doctor Who, following the BBC’s deal with Disney for the global rights to the series, was palpable. The wait between Jodie Whittaker’s final special and the arrival of Doctor Who in its new home felt like an eternity, but now we’re back in the saddle and off to the races,

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Book Review: ‘The Stars Too Fondly’ by Emily Hamilton

What is love? That is the question that is at the heart of Emily Hamilton’s new sci-fi novel The Stars Too Fondly. Cleo McQueary has a hard time opening up to people. She has her three best friends, Kaleisha, Abe, and Ros, and that’s it. They’re her family and they’re all she needs. Well them and tech. Cleo loves engineering and

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