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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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Of Imagination and Fantasy: The Importance of Childhood and a Look at Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
For many readers, it seems that speculative fiction (once you figure out what it means) conjures up either thoughts of the future or the ancient…
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