Below find reviews of all the best movies, shows, books, games, and more according to Cosmic Circus contributors and writers.
The Essential Legends Collection has been bringing together some of the best and most famous novels from the old Expanded Universe of Star Wars since 2021. The novels get republished under this new line, and are given amazing new cover artwork, for a whole new generation of fans to enjoy and read. Disney sparked some controversy when they decided to scrap
Read MoreCome meet Celie. She shares her life with us in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. Through letters from her to first God, and later her sister Nettie, we learn all about the lows and highs Celie experiences. Through love and loss, hope and devastation, The Color Purple gives us a look into life in the early 1900s in rural Georgia. It’s
Read MoreThe problem with getting into anime is that there is so much of it, and it’s all so incredibly different. Anime is a medium that’s full of its own genres and tropes, it can be confusing and even a little intimidating to figure out where to start. Not to worry! This guide is here to help you on your journey exploring
Read MoreJust in time for Christmas, Aconyte is releasing an Arkham Horror novel set in the Christmas season: The Bootlegger’s Dance by Rosemary Jones. Raquel Gutierrez is hiding from life. She doesn’t want her family to know what’s going on and doesn’t even want to admit it to herself, so she’s staying with her Aunt Nova until she can accept her situation.
Read MoreLast November Rebecca Yarros introduced us to Violet Sorrengail and the dragons of Navarre with her hit novel Fourth Wing. This November, she takes us back there as Violet and Xaden try to manage having a real relationship while leading a revolution and finding a way to destroy the venin that are coming to destroy everyone. All that and a teenage
Read MoreHappy holiday season dear readers! How has this year flown by? It seems like just yesterday that we were setting off fireworks and headed to the beach. But now the air is getting colder and if you’re like Lorelei Gilmore, you just might smell snow in the air. However, before we completely dive into the holiday season which comes with December,
Read MoreDo you remember that feeling when you watched a movie that you really liked, and later you found out it was based on a really popular book? That’s what happened to me after I watched Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. After taking a long time to find time to get myself into this universe and read books, the
Read MoreThe High Republic is back for the third and final phase of its publishing initiative! Phase III also named “Trials of the Jedi” kicks off a year after the events of Phase I and the turbulent destruction of Starlight Beacon at the hands of the dastardly Marchion Ro and his Nihil crew. The Eye of Darkness by George Mann marks the first
Read MoreFantasy and reality come together in a unique and exciting way in Khalia Moreau’s The Princess of Thornwood Drive. A year ago Laine Highland’s world turned upside down. Her parents were killed in a car crash that also left her younger sister, Alyssa in a vegetative state. Laine blames herself for the accident and quits school to come home and take
Read MoreSent to die in the Hunger Games after her boyfriend’s wandering eyes land on the mayor’s daughter, Lucy Gray Baird arrives in a war-torn Capitol still rebuilding itself after the rebellion of the Dark Days. There, she meets 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow – the last hope of an elite Capitol lineage, now fallen into poverty and desperate to win a university scholarship
Read MoreHave you ever watched a show and immediately known that you would sell your right kidney to make everyone else watch it too? That’s what Netflix’s new adult animation series Blue Eye Samurai does for me. The premise for Blue Eye Samurai came to co-creators and married couple Amber Noizumi and Michael Green upon having their daughter. Noizumi has spoken about
Read MoreAlan Wake II, developed by Remedy Entertainment and published by Epic Games Publishing, is a long-awaited sequel to the game from 13 years ago. Just like its predecessor, the sequel is an immersive action-adventure game that will leave a lasting impact on the gaming world. But in order to become a worthy sequel, especially in 2023, Alan Wake II had to
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