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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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‘The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act’ Review: A Fitting Finale For Fervent Fans

John Daniel Tangalin ,  ,  5 min read

Gooseworx‘s The Amazing Digital Circus follows young people trapped in a virtual realm. Characters embark on various quests, similar to Pendleton Ward‘s Adventure Time or Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy‘s Westworld. Jester-like protagonist Pomni (voiced by Lizzie Freeman) befriends other “avatars” stuck in the circus. Together, they face non-playable characters (NPCs), explore a haunted manor, run a fast food joint, and

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‘I Am Frankelda’ Review: A Handcrafted Nightmare of Pure Magic

Vin ,  ,  ,  5 min read

I Am Frankelda is a brand new dark fantasy musical, and Mexico’s very first stopmotion feature film. Directed and written by brothers Arturo & Roy Ambriz, the movie is the ideal introduction to their growing Frankelda universe of dark fantasy stories. The project originally began as a YouTube pilot in 2019. That short grew into Frankelda’s Book of Spooks (2021), a

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‘Echo Isle’ Game Review: A Short, Disappointing Adventure

Ten Sky ,  ,  5 min read

Several months ago, as I was browsing the upcoming indie game releases on Steam, I discovered the demo for Echo Isle. Just from looking at the screenshots and reading the page’s listing, I had all of these memories from my childhood flooding back into my mind as it reminded me of games of my past. I thought to myself, “I need

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‘Disclosure Day’ Review: Spielberg Takes a Thrilling Sci-Fi Swing

John Dotson ,  ,  5 min read

Back in the early 2000s, Roger Ebert dubbed Minority Report a “triumph” during a time, as he called it, “when movies think they have to choose between action and ideas.” And this was during a creative era for Spielberg, when the iconic director felt emboldened to explore new territory. UFOs may not be fresh material for the E.T. filmmaker, but Disclosure Day feels very

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‘Coffee Talk: Tokyo’ Game Review: A Warm Cup of Comfort and Friendship

Ten Sky ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

Have you ever walked into a late-night café, sat down, and started conversing with strangers, which led to establishing new connections? Well, that’s what I got to experience with the recently released visual novel game Coffee Talk: Tokyo. Admittedly, I have never really been a fan of the visual novel genre in the past. I have tried to play many other

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‘Scary Movie’ (2026) Forgets to Be Funny

Maxance Vincent ,  ,  5 min read

For some reason, modern audiences are having nostalgia for the Scary Movie franchise. The once-shepherded-by-the-Wayans-Brothers spoof series that parodied contemporary horror cinema had a cult following in the years after its successful release, but none of them were any good. The only ones that were watchable, Scary Movie 3 and Scary Movie 4, had David Zucker’s involvement, one of the masters of

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‘Tuner’ Review: An Accomplished Fiction Debut from Daniel Roher

Maxance Vincent ,  5 min read

The path from documentarian to fiction filmmaker isn’t as smooth as one thinks (see, as a recent example, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s Nyad), but Daniel Roher makes it look easy with the incredibly controlled Tuner. From winning an Academy Award in 2023 for his portrait of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny to making a documentary that attempts to

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‘Masters of the Universe’ Review: A Bowl of Sugary Spectacle

John Dotson ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

Masters of the Universe is an adaptation that could only be made in 2026. In a different Hollywood system, the movie would be ripe for marketing towards the “meathead” action-based market. The first attempt with Dolph Lundgren, for example, was clearly a product of the old thinking. That somehow, macho, masculine behavior, and fantasy are box office-winning formulas. Filmmaker Travis Knight’s

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