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Reimagined Race: Superheroes for a More Enlightened Age
Last November, news broke of Marvel relaunching their Ms. Marvel title with a new protagonist: Kamala Khan, a young Muslim teen from New Jersey. Kamala…
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Film Review for Her
Spike Jonze’s newest masterpiece, Her, is a gorgeous portrayal of the future. With its soft pastel colour palette and blush pink sheen, the film fabricates…
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The City of Dreams and Nightmares: Sex, Obsession, and Storytelling in Catherynne M. Valente’s “Palimpsest”
Welcome to Palimpsest: a sexually-transmitted city accessible only through dreams. Though the magical city is filled with permanent residents, human “immigrants” from our world can…
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An Amalgamation of Angels: A survey of the angelic from religious to fictional
From Renaissance paintings to modern-day Cupids, angels (and their inverse, demons) have always fascinated the imagination. It might be because they’re often human-looking, but more…
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You’re Wearing That? — An Examination on Female Body Armour in Fantasy and Superhero Genres.
Somewhere on a fantastical battlefield, a woman has just fallen in combat. In life, she was a powerful force: fighting valiantly, leading her troops, denouncing…
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Film Review for I, Frankenstein
In I, Frankenstein, director Stuart Beattie certainly takes an interesting approach to his interpretation of Mary Shelley’s legendary novel, but presentation sadly fails to live…
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Commentary on OneOfUs; Kid-Horror and Cotton Candy Blood
In keeping with the theme of childhood and newer (past few years) authors emerging from within the speculative genre, this post’s selection is from 2010…
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Robots, Androids, and Cyborgs in Film: Here to Help, or Out to Kill?
It’s a normal day. You’re walking down Queen Street West and pass a stranger. You smile. They don’t smile back. And then you say to…
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The Desolation of Ear Cartilage: Body Modification as Fantasy
If you’re anything like me, you came out of The Desolation of Smaug with an even deeper love of elves than you ever thought possible.…
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Desperate for more Desolation: A Film Review of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When Smaug’s giant reptilian eye slowly slid open and his gravelly growl vibrate through the theatre in the final seconds of The Hobbit: An Unexpected…
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