Featured properties: Emily in Paris, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, The Best Man: The Final Chapters, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Witcher: Blood Origin, The Circle, Lizzo: Live in Concert, Kaleidoscope, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Ginny & Georgia, Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches
— WILLOW As we’ve said before: WILLOW is a woman of growth. She may have started her music career in 2010, however, 2022 is the year she has come into her own. What has that entailed? Becoming the pop-punk princess she was born to be. Her latest album, <COPINGMECHANISM> released and blew us all away. WILLOW spent her year shredding the guitar on stage, teaming up with Yungblud and Camila Cabello, and pouring her heart out on Red Table Talk. She has completely laid out who she is on the table and we want to embrace all that she has.
Puss in Boots has to finally grow up and deal with his mortality in this fairytale romp that breathes new fire into the Shrek universe. For sf-fantasy readers, anime fans, and gamers, for those who dream of adventures on new worlds and stepping into the mantle of hero: This one is for us. What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Paramore, Joshua Roberts, Mod Sun, and more. Over the last two years, most of us have had a lot of extra time at home. Some people chose to learn something new (I downloaded Duolingo and now hablo español), some people spent a lot of time on TikTok or Netflix (or both), and some people helped score a recreation of the cult classic The Princess Bride. Or at least that’s what Christo Bowman, lead singer of indie-rock band Bad Suns did. “I’ve never even seen the [original] movie,” says Bowman when I ask him about the experience. We’re chatting via Zoom—he’s in the green room at the Rialto… Read more » Properties featured: His Dark Materials, Doom Patrol, Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Dragon Age: Absolution An infinitely watchable paranormal teen movie that flips the tropes, the clichés, and the graveyard to find everlasting friendship. Geek Girl Riot raises a glass to Riches and some of the most juicy scandalous news, before revisiting our conversations on Black Adam, One Piece Film Red, The School for Good and Evil, From Scratch, and Panhandle. Featured properties: The Great Christmas Light Fight, Willow, Irreverent, Gossip Girl, Three Pines, Riches, Spoiler Alert, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Firefly Lane, Women TalkingNewsFilm Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
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