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Below find reviews of all the best movies, shows, books, games, and more according to Cosmic Circus contributors and writers.


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‘Foolish Mortals’ Game Review: A Ghoulish Delight

Foolish Mortals is a new point-and-click adventure game developed by the indie game developer and publisher Inklingwood Studios. Throughout your journey, you’ll take on the role of Murphy McCallan as you explore an island known as Devil’s Rock that lies just off the coast of Louisiana. You’ll encounter a colorful cast of island locals, ghosts, gators, and more as you uncover the mystery of what

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‘Visions’ Volume 3 Pushes the Boundaries of Star Wars Animation

Star Wars: Visions returns with volume 3 for a spectacular new season of amazing short stories set in a galaxy far, far away. Not being tied to any canon timeline or canon of the films and shows allows these animation studios, brought on to create these shorts, to work with their full creativity to bring fresh and exciting stories to life. Celebrating everything from the

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‘Absolum’ Game Review: World of Fantasy and Delight

Absolum is a roguelite beat-’em-up game developed by Guard Crush Games and Supamonks and published by Dotemu. Dotemu is known for publishing fantastic beat-’em-ups such as TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, and just like those games, Absolum continues the tradition of releasing games with fun and engaging gameplay. There are four playable characters, with two of them available by default when starting

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‘Pokémon Legends: Z-A’ Game Review

When you fire up Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you’re immediately stepping into a world full of potential that’s trying to bring back the good old vibes from your childhood. This time, Legends: Z-A is set once again in the region of Kalos, known from the 6th generation of Pokémon X&Y. However, instead of revisiting the entire region, our playground is the big and extremely detailed, yet unique and

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‘V/H/S/Halloween’ Is A Cruel Addition To The Shudder Film Franchise

Many people do not realize how much anthologies are a group effort within the film industry, whether it’s Rod Serling‘s The Twilight Zone, Charlie Brooker‘s Black Mirror, Tim Miller‘s Love, Death + Robots, Marvel’s What If…?, Star Wars: Visions, and so on. Every piece of a film or a season of television requires input from an individual storyteller through screenwriting and direction, which is why

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‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Game Review: An Impressive and Challenging Sequel

The first Hollow Knight game earned its place as one of the most exciting games not produced by a multibillion-dollar studio simply by connecting exciting combat with a world that felt too good to be true. A sequel to Hollow Knight had to be more than another upgrade. It needed to create a new identity while respecting the legacy. Now that Hollow Knight: Silksong is

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‘One Battle After Another Review’: A Blistering and Timely American Saga

There comes a time within every couple of years of film where you get something so special, so relevant to our current moment, and so successful on virtually every front that it’s hard to believe it exists. A film where you know as soon as the credits roll, it will live on as a timeless classic, and just like with his previous film, Paul Thomas

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‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle’ Review: Setting the Stage for an Epic Finale

Going into Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (that title is a mouthful, which is why it will be mostly referred to as “Infinity Castle” from now on), it was immediately apparent that the first part of a planned trilogy of films to wrap up Koyoharu Gotuge’s adaptation of his own manga series would be filled with exposition. After all, “Part

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‘The Long Walk’: A Standard Stephen King Adaptation

Producer Francis Lawrence and J.T. Mollner’s coming-of-age dystopian survival horror-thriller, The Long Walk, has finally strode into theaters. Based on executive producer Stephen King’s 1979 novel of the same name under King’s pseudonym, Richard Bachman, the adaptation follows a selection of fifty teenage boys chosen to walk endlessly down a road at three miles per hour. In a year that includes adaptations of King’s short

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