Remember being a kid and thinking how cool it would be if there were no grown-ups telling you what to do? Well for four lucky kids their wish came true In The Last Kids on Earth and the Forbidden Fortress. Max Brallier writes about Jack, June, Quint, and Dirk as they live through a monster/zombie apocalypse. All the grown-ups have vanished…
Read MoreAfter nearly forty years, four movies, numerous cartoon shows, and multiple video games, Ghostbusters remains a very important part of American culture. James Greene Jr’s book A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever takes a deep dive into the history of the Ghostbusters phenomenon. The author starts his history before they were even called the Ghostbusters and takes us
Read MoreSpooky season is finally coming to an end with Halloween officially here, but the season of giving is just around the corner. November brings with it Thanksgiving for those in America, discounted Halloween chocolate in every store, and for fans of HBO Max’s Titans, part one of a brand new season. November third sees the drop of two new episodes for
Read MoreAfter seven years of development, Henry Selick’s Wendell & Wild is finally out. The demon-filled horror comedy is a fantastic visual achievement, with prestigious stop-motion animation that rivals the best work of an all-star career which already includes Coraline, Nightmare Before Christmas, and James and the Giant Peach. But does everything else about Wendell & Wild deliver at the same level of excellence? Wendell &
Read MoreHalloween is here and you may be in the mood to watch something scary tonight! Below are what I think are some of the best scary TV episodes that’ll give you a few thrills and chills on Halloween. If you have suggestions for other scary episodes to watch on Halloween, be sure to let us know on The Cosmic Circus Discord
Read MoreHalloween is almost upon us again and most pop culture fans have been preparing for it by watching some scary movies. I’ve got a few suggestions of my own for you, listed below. These films aren’t necessarily full of jump-scares, blood, or slashing, they’re simply meant to be movies you can watch on Halloween and have some chills and frights that
Read MoreDavid Annandale takes us back to Arkham, the center of horror, in his mystery-thriller In the Coils of the Labyrinth. This time Professor Miranda Ventham is caught at the center of an occult conspiracy. Luckily her best friend is Agatha Crane, a parapsychologist who has devoted her life to uncovering and fighting the evil at the center of Arkham. Together they
Read MoreIn The Prisoner of Tartarus, Richard Lee Byers gives us an origin story we didn’t know we needed. But we did! Byers shares with us not just the story of Heimdall coming into his own, but also the story of how the Bifrost, one of the most important means of transportation in the Marvel universe, came to be. [Note: While I
Read MoreStar Trek: Prodigy is back from its long hiatus with a brand new episode entitled “Asylum” that’s exciting, full of gorgeous animation, and gives us more of the characters we love. There are huge stakes as the group of wayward kids, including Dal (Brett Gray), Gwyn (Ella Purnell), Jankom Pog (Jason Mantzoukas), Rok-Tahk (Rylee Alazraqui), and Zero (Angus Imrie), must navigate their
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