I have an embarrassing reading habit to confess. A book can sit in my TBR for months, years, decades even, but the thing that will finally persuade me to read it will be the news of a forthcoming film or television adaptation. In the case...
Author: Abigail Nussbaum
Cover design by Tom Joyes I am thrilled to announce that my first collection of reviews, Track Changes, will be published by Briardene Books this summer. Track Changes collects nearly sixty reviews from nearly twenty.
Joe Barrow is a big city murder cop in 1922. A hulking, silent type who dogs the footsteps of his flashier, more loquacious partner Phineas Drummond, looming threateningly over suspects.
2024 will be the first year in which I have watched all of the Oscar best picture nominees before the ceremony. That in itself is a commentary on the quality of this year's ballot. It's easier to catch up on the nominees today, with streaming...
Last year I thought it might be a fun thing to post my Hugo ballot here, and give you all a sense of how the sausage of that award gets.
Happy leap day to you, LGM! I absolutely support the idea that leap day should be a day off to just do whatever, but in the real world in which.
We're about a month out from Oscar ceremony, and fittingly for a pretty sleepy slate of nominees, the discourse surrounding this year's awards has already died down. The Barbie nominations brouhaha seems to have settled (after some eruptions that did not cast anyone in a...
Of the ten films nominated for this year's best picture Oscar, I've watched six. I'm pretty interested in the remaining four, as well as some of the films that have.
Every year when I put together this list, I contemplate the entire mini-industry of "most anticipated" things—not just books but films, TV shows, games, music, etc.—that has sprung up in.
Folks, I need to apologize. The intersection of politics and pop culture is, I think we can generally agree, my beat on this blog, and in particular when it produces work that is head-scratching or ridiculous. But as I mentioned in my recent best TV...
This last summer, when the WGA and SAG strikes were at their height, some people started saying that soon we would have nothing left to watch. Even at the time,.
[This review was originally posted on my blog earlier this week. I've also reviewed Newitz's previous two science fiction novels: Autnonomous (2017) right here as part of my Political History.