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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: ‘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

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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

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Audiobook Review: ‘Light Bringer: A Red Rising Novel’ by Pierce Brown

As nerds continue to take over the world, it feels like there’s been a bigger shift in the landscape of media on fantasy, science fiction, and comic books. Not that you’ll hear me complaining. With so much focus on nerd culture, the market has become inundated with many new series, films, and books to catch the attention of consumers. To stand

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Review: Netflix’s ‘Gamera: Rebirth’

Thanks to the recent renewed interest in the Kaiju genre, we’ve been treated to various Kaiju movies and shows both animated and live-action. Between Legendary’s Monsterverse, the Godzilla Singular Point anime on Netflix, the upcoming Godzilla Minus One from Toho, and plenty of others, kaiju fans have been treated to a wide variety of city-toppling monster romps. But while we’ve seen

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Book Review: ‘Cursebreakers’ by Madeleine Nakamura

Adrien Desfourneaux is currently a professor of magic but he used to be a physician. Instead of teaching about magic, he used it to heal people. Until the day he went too far and was almost branded a witch. The victims of that tragedy are still lying comatose in the Chirurgeonate (hospital) years later. But now something is happening. An unexplained

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Monica Rambeau Reading Guide

Welcome to the Monica Rambeau comics reading guide, the ultimate resource for Marvel’s ultimate light-based superhero! After her live action debut by Teyonah Parris in WandaVision, Monica Rambeau is about to become a movie star in The Marvels! Monica is also one of the coolest characters at the center of Marvel’s comics universe, so let’s dive into her history to see what she’s

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Best Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor Episodes of ‘Doctor Who’

It’s no secret that I’m a big-time Thirteenth Doctor defender. While her era may not be perfect, I believe the fandom didn’t give this period the flowers it deserved. In fact, I wrote a whole piece defending the controversial Chibnall era for this very publication. But regardless of how you feel about Chris Chibnall and Thirteen, this era still had plenty

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Review: ‘A Million Miles Away’

A triumphant tale of a real-life perseverant hero, Jose Hernandez, who overcame many forms of failure to succeed and become the first migrant farmworker to go into space. The film stars Michael Pena (who also plays my favorite MCU character Luis!) as Hernandez, taking us through his discovery of the stars above and how he floated amongst them. A Million Miles

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Review: ‘The Nun II’ is Better Than Its Predecessor

James Wan has become a modern king of horror, having brought about a revitalization of the genre beginning with Saw back in 2005. Since then, he’s had his hand in creating two other successful horror franchises, Insidious and The Conjuring. It’s the latter for which we’re gathered today, with the newest entry in The Conjuring Universe releasing this weekend, The Nun

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