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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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Review: ‘Trolls Band Together’ is Tuneful But Flawed

Trolls Band Together is out in theaters as of this past weekend. It’s a brightly colored boy-band symphony of animation and heart, but don’t expect a high-note encore to the previous two Trolls films. The film’s lighthearted message of familial love and self-acceptance, set to a catchy soundtrack and featuring incredible animation, is occasionally overshadowed by moments of questionable humor that raise the

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Thanksgiving: The Cosmic Crew Gives Thanks

Happy 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,

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Report: ‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 Working Title

Stranger Things is one of the phenomena from Netflix that took the world by storm when it first came out back in 2016. The sci-fi series rooted in nostalgia took small-town America, which so many people can relate to, and made it epic with elements of horror and a conspiracy that eventually spans across the United States. Stranger Things feels cinematic

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Coriolanus Snow’s Journey in ‘Songbirds and Snakes’ Reframes Original ‘Hunger Games’

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been released at long last! Fans of the novel have been waiting on the edge of our seats to return to Panem on the silver screen. Lionsgate satisfied us with a solid, if imperfect, adaptation of the story focused on Lucy Gray Baird and Coriolanus Snow. But what we really need

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Ranking All The Live-Action Toho Godzilla Movies

With Godzilla: Minus One making its way to movie theatres very soon and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters releasing on AppleTV+, I embarked on a rather ambitious project in preparation: watch every live-action Godzilla movie produced by Toho and rank them from worst to best. Before this project, I had already seen Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla alongside the animated

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Review: ‘Monarch: Legacy of Monsters’ is an Entertaining Beast

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, much like Godzilla, is a kaiju of an experience. The new show aims to give the same feel as the current Monster-verse films, offering titan mayhem and even Godzilla himself. Apple TV+ certainly has the money to experiment with such a task, and for the most part, no penny is wasted on the small moments it becomes a

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Exclusive Interview: Joe Bennett and James Merrill talk ‘Scavengers Reign’

Scavengers Reign ended its incredible first season last week with the finale episode, “The Reunion.” The MAX original animated sci-fi show, set mainly on the treacherous alien planet Vesta Minor, follows the survivors of the Demeter cargo freighter as they navigate the planet teeming with life and danger. Scavengers Reign, a beautifully animated show with deep thought behind the art and story

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Book Review: ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’

Do 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

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