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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Review: ‘Citadel’ is an Exciting and Ambitious Spy Drama

Ayla Ruby ,  ,  6 min read

Citadel premieres tomorrow with two episodes on Amazon’s Prime Video. Starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Citadel is an exciting and ambitious espionage drama that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The show is fast-paced and adrenaline-filled, with stunning action sequences and sexy, well-developed characters. Citadel dials it up to 11, and it is a thrilling, fun, and incredibly addictive show. Citadel continues

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Review: ‘Sweet Tooth’ Season 2 Brings a More Cohesive Story

Brian Kitson ,  ,  ,  7 min read

DC’s Vertigo imprint comics have found a home over at Netflix, with live-action adaptations of Sweet Tooth and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. For the former, the first season took the world by storm in 2021, taking a huge gamble on a post-apocalyptic story released during the early stages of the global pandemic. However, while the story is set during a viral

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Book Review: ‘Doctor Who: The Witchfinders’ by Joy Wilkinson

Luna Gauthier ,  ,  ,  ,  5 min read

Doctor Who is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. So The Cosmic Circus is doing a year-long celebration of this incredible show. For my part, there’s a whole series of books based on the show. I’ll be doing a few reviews on these books throughout the year. In the first book I’m reviewing, Joy Wilkinson’s Doctor Who: The Witchfinders, the 13th

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Cosmic Circle Ep. 28: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Finale

Ayla Ruby ,  ,  ,  ,  3 min read

The Mandalorian season 3 concluded on Wednesday with “Chapter 24: The Return”. Expectations were high for the finale, which continued the story of The Mandalorian, aka Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal/Brendan Wayne/Lateef Crowder), and adorable found family, the Child, aka Grogu, as they worked with Bo Katan (Katee Sackhoff) and Axe Woves (Simon Kassianides) to defeat Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito) and restore Mandalore. 

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Review: ‘Ghosted’ – A Fun Rom-Com Adventure!

Anthony Flagg ,  ,  6 min read

Ghosted is a silly and fun time that transports you back to the surge of romantic comedies that were plentiful from the early 2000s, with lots of spy action mixed in! Chris Evans and Ana de Armas equally share the screen in this two-hour adventure that takes a simple premise quite far – what do you do after a ‘perfect’ first

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Book Review: ‘The Tyrant Skies: A Marvel Untold Novel’ by David Annandale

Luna Gauthier ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

Doctor Doom is again cast as the hero in David Annandale’s newest Marvel novel, The Tyrant Skies. This time Doom is pitted against his old enemy, the Red Skull. The Red Skull has found himself some new allies, billionaires who assume they are better than everyone else simply because they have money. He plans on using that money to bring the

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Book Review: ‘Straight On Till Morning: A Twisted Tale’ by Liz Braswell

Luna Gauthier ,  ,  ,  5 min read

What if? They’re only two little words but they are some of the most powerful in the English language. “What if?” changes everything that went before and allows something completely new to happen. In Straight On Till Morning, Liz Braswell uses these words to imagine a world where Peter Pan never took Wendy to Neverland. Instead, what if Captain Hook took

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Cosmic Circle Ep. 27: Journey to ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’

Brian Kitson ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  1 min read

Guardians of the Galaxy was one of the first entries in the MCU to take fans to the stars, bringing the cosmos into the spotlight. With humble beginnings as a rag-tag team of A-holes thrust together by fate and bad luck, the group grew into a family full of love and harassment. The Guardians have faced some tough moments together, but

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Review: HBOMax’s ‘Love & Death’ is a Haunting Delight

Brian Kitson ,  ,  6 min read

True crime is a guilty pleasure of so many individuals, myself included. As an avid weekly consumer of Dateline with Lester Holt, I understand the addictiveness of such programming. The tales of horror about these individuals’ last days and the subsequent journey to solving the crimes are as intriguing as they are terrifying. So when Love & Death was first announced

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Review: ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 & Season Finale

Wiktor Reinfuss ,  ,  ,  ,  6 min read

The Mandalorian season 3 finale has been released, and the series is again one of the most popular on Disney+. To be honest, I’m not shocked by this. The last few years have shown that Star Wars projects are consistently popular on streaming. Many people enjoy watching The Mandalorian with their families, and that’s what makes the experience better. Even I

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Review: ‘Beau is Afraid’ is 2023’s First Masterpiece

James Preston Poole ,  5 min read

Ari Aster has been a big name in genre film for a while now. His illustrious career as writer-director began with the semi-viral horror short The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, rolling into his debut feature, horror smash hit Hereditary, and then only growing bigger with the release of 2019’s Midsommar. Rather than continuing down the path of making critically acclaimed slow-burn horror, Aster decided

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