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Chain Saws and Jump-Scares: A Peek Inside The Evil Within
With all the amazing games that came out this year, there was one highly anticipated horror that combined strategic thinking, conservative survival, and jump-scares galore.…
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Believing Make-Believe: an Interview with GoT Visual Effects Artist Neil Safeer Ghaznavi
My enthusiasm for speculative fiction is very much rooted in its ability to make impossible things believable. For someone like me, to conjure the fantastical…
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Big Hero 6 is Missing some Big Ideas
I would be lying if I said I didn’t come out of Big Hero 6 grinning like a fool. I wanted a cute, fun watch and…
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Grad School or Dragons? Thoughts on Why We Love Speculative Fiction
There is something about lovers of speculative fiction that is different from the lovers of strictly garden-variety fiction. You cannot compare the passions of a…
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How High is Your Number? Analyzing the Sibyl System and Crime Coefficients in Psycho-Pass
This review contains spoilers. In celebration of the airing of the anime Psycho-Pass 2, today we’ll be looking into the idea of the Sibyl System…
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A Life in Film: Stanley Kubrick at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Stanley Kubrick had one of the longest and most fruitful careers in film history. He sought to flesh out the darkest aspects of human existence…
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Winter Wonderland? Gethen and Narnia: the Lands of Perpetual Winter
I recently went on a cruise to Bermuda. It was awful. This was partially due to the incessant swaying of the boat, the boredom that…
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A Good Land for Myths
Throughout Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel American Gods, many different characters state that “America is a bad land for gods.” The novel argues that when many…
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The Walking Dead: No Sanctuary
This review contains spoilers. Walkers. Blood. Family. Walkers have taken over the world. Everyone is infected. Blood is spilled in every episode, whether it be…
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Curiosities Abound: Kurios and Circus as Speculation
Cirque du Soleil never disappoints, but this year—the 30th anniversary of the Montreal-based circus— was absolutely magnificent. The use of steampunk, neo-Victorian aesthetics, and re-imagined clockwork and…
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