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Cosmic Circus is a pop culture entertainment website owned and run by Editor-in-Chief Lizzie Hill since July 1, 2021. The website's coverage includes film and TV / streaming series reviews, news, interviews, podcasts, book reviews, game reviews, and comics guides, as well as coverage of concerts, comic-cons, expos, film festivals, and other events.

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‘Not Dead Yet’ Returns For it’s Season 2 Premiere!

Sometimes life doesn’t quite go the way we’ve planned. I think this is a sentiment that we can all relate to at one point or another. Perhaps you thought you’d go to law school and headed into teaching instead. Maybe that relationship you thought would last forever ended abruptly, thrusting your life into another direction. These are just two examples, but

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Review: Gothic Romance and Dark Comedy Dominate ‘Lisa Frankenstein’

Diablo Cody has been in the screenwriting game a long time. Her debut, Juno, won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. She enjoys continued success, notably in her continued collaborations with Juno director Jason Reitman, Young Adult and Tully. The film younger generations tend to latch onto is the Megan Fox starring vehicle Jennifer’s Body. Its queer themes, sardonic comedy, and true horror cement

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Humanity’s Survival and Prehistoric Horrors in ‘Out of Darkness’

One of the coolest compliments I ever heard the late, great Roger Ebert express about a movie was that, while you’re watching it, your mind keeps turning; the movie’s mysteries encourage you to explore your own imagination in regard to what you’re seeing on the screen. The new prehistoric horror film from Bleecker Street titled Out of Darkness is exactly the

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‘She is Conann’ Review: A Banksy-inspired Vision of Conan the Barbarian

She is Conann is not a Conan film. The characters are mostly here, including the addition of Red Sonja. But the acid dream of She is Conann has other ideas on its mind. In a weird, nightmarish feminine LGTBQ vision of the Barbarian. We see the iconic character through various stages of her life, bathing the brutal character’s journey in a tub of

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Comics & CollectiblesComics Reading GuidesGuides

Fantastic Four Reading Guide: 1998-2024

Hello explorers, and welcome back to the modern Fantastic Four comics reading guide! This is our second guide to Marvel’s first family, following our classic Fantastic Four comics guide (1961-1998). Starting with the relaunch in 1998, here are our recommendations for the best modern Fantastic Four comics! Modern Fantastic Four Comics Recommendations: Fantastic Four by Mark Waid & Mike Wieringo Fantastic

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Book ReviewsBooksStellar Picks

Read ‘Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up’ by Alexandra Potter Before ‘Not Dead Yet’ Returns!

Ever felt like you don’t know what you’re doing? Did life not exactly live up to the plans your thirteen-year-old self made? Are you sure that everyone else has it figured out and you’re the only one who doesn’t? Well, guess what, you’re not actually alone! From time to time, we all feel like f**k ups! And finally, Alexandra Potter dared

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The Marvel Multiverse and Black Holes

Often depicted as a prism of endless possibilities, the multiverse has one constant across all possible variations or interpretations: it can become a complex and complicated story trope. The very definition of the multiverse is a simple one to comprehend: the collection of our known universe and all other universes parallel to it, ever-expanding at an infinite rate. But when it

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Review: ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ Season 1 Finale

Have you ever wondered if the book you liked would ever get a fantastic live-action adaptation that will honor its legacy? (especially after a not so great movie) Did you ever think, “If Greek Gods can have children on Earth?” Have you ever wanted to experience what it’s like to be a demigod who needs to figure out who they are?

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