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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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ReviewsTV & Streaming Series Reviews

Review: ‘American Horror Story: Delicate’ Part 1 Season Premiere

Spooky season has finally arrived! The temperature is cooling, the leaves are changing, and our yearly fix of horror is returning to our screens. Nothing signals a shift from summer to fall and the need to consume everything pumpkin spice and a new season of American Horror Story. Now in its twelfth year, the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk-created series does something this season it

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Game ReviewsGamingReviewsStellar Picks

‘Mortal Kombat 1’ Game Review: Sets a New Standard

Mortal Kombat 1 is the newest installment in the iconic fighting game series that has delighted the gaming world since the release of Mortal Kombat 9 in 2011. Developed by NetherRealm Studios, written and directed by the legend of this franchise Ed Boon, and published by Warner Bros. Games, this game has set a new standard for the fighting game genre. Being a reboot of

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Movie ReviewsReviews

Review: Prime Video’s ‘Cassandro’

What makes someone extraordinary? This question crosses my mind each and every time I watch a biopic. There must be something about the individuals whose lives we deem the general public needs to know. There’s been such an influx of biopics in recent years, each one showcasing the extraordinary lives of these larger-than-life individuals. Prime Video is releasing two such films a week apart on

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Book ReviewsBooksReviews

Book Review: ‘Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology’

Spooky season is upon us. It’s the perfect time to grab some warm cider and your favorite blanket and cuddle up somewhere with a scary story or two. Never Whistle At Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., is exactly that! This collection of short stories is all by indigenous authors and all feature indigenous main

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First ReportNews & RumorsSpeculative Space

First Report: Liz Carr’s Character in ‘Loki’ Season 2

We’re less than a month away from the return of Loki, a series focused on the God of Mischief. It feels like forever since the first season arrived, with Loki finally receiving a project that is dedicated to him and his glorious purpose. However, the first outing had huge ramifications on the entire MCU, changing it into the Marvel Cinematic Multiverse, with a quick decision

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Cosmic CuisineGuides

‘Doctor Who’ Cosmic Cuisine: The Ninth Doctor’s Banana Bread

The Ninth Doctor was known to carry a banana in his pocket “just in case”, in the wildly popular sci-fi series Doctor Who. In case of what, you say? Well in case he wanted to make banana bread of course! Okay, okay, before any Doctor Who fans start getting angry, the Doctor never did say why he had the banana or make banana bread out

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FeaturesNews & RumorsSpeculative Space

Theory: What Ahsoka May Find in the New Galaxy

Ahsoka episode 5, titled “Shadow Warrior,” was a thrilling viewing experience, one that saw Ahsoka reunite with her former master Anakin from beyond the grave. Plenty of fans had eagerly been anticipating this confrontation, and Ahsoka delivered, giving us a glimpse of a live-action Clone Wars-era Ahsoka for the first time. But something just as exciting, maybe even more so, is in store for us

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Movie ReviewsReviews

Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’

Director and actor Kenneth Branagh’s passion for the works of Agatha Christie continues with another murder mystery for Hercule Poirot. This time, Branagh takes a swan dive into the supernatural with A Haunting in Venice, an approach he has tried with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  A Haunting in Venice is not a perfect sequel. Some aspects feel slightly undercooked within its screenplay. However, this might be the most engaging of the three films.

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ReviewsTV & Streaming Series Reviews

Review: Prime Video’s ‘Wilderness’ is One Wild Ride

I think it’s pretty universal that at some point in our lives, we’ve been pushed to our breaking point and snapped in some way, shape, or form. The unbridled emotions that come with the snap are raw, and deep, and can cause us to feel like we’re going crazy. Perhaps in some way, we are, like a rubber band, we have no control of the

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