Inside Out 2

Posted by Dave Switzer under Reviews of movies

{5/5} “Yeah, it’s just that it’s new and I know how important it is and I don’t want to mess it up or break it or burn it to the ground or anything.” — Sadness Inside Out 2, released in 2024 Riley is now a teenager and she has a couple of close friends that […]

Twice

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{4.5/5} “Later that day, when our class (again) went to the zoo, I stood next to Esther. When that lion roared, I didn’t flinch. I didn’t say a thing. I wanted to brag, ‘Hey, I  just ran into his cage! He was this close to eating me!’ But it’s not like I had any proof. […]

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come

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{5/5} “The ball is in play.” Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, released in 2026 Grace was taken to the hospital, where she is recuperating from her injuries. She’s handcuffed to the bed, and a police officer explains that there were dead bodies in the house and blood that wasn’t hers on her dress […]

Zootopia 2

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{4/5} “Zootopia wasn’t created by a mammal… it was created by a snake!” Zootopia 2, released in 2025 Judy and Nick are now partners at the police department. As rookies, the other cops think they shouldn’t be doing anything difficult. Judy finds a piece of snake skin, which is odd because snakes haven’t been seen […]

SF & fantasy TV shows

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Here’s an update to this list. 5/5 3rd Rock from the Sun 5 5 5 5 5 4.5           4.92 Agents of SHIELD 4.5 4.5 5 5 5 5 5         4.86 Andor 5 5                   5 Angel 5 5 […]

Best fantasy & science fiction movies by year

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Here’s an update to this list.  Year Winner Runner Ups 2025 Superman Captain America: Brave New World     The Fantastic Four: First Steps     The Gorge     Thunderbolts* 2024 IF Beetlejuice Beetlejuice     Deadpool & Wolverine     Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire     The Life of Chuck     The Watchers […]

Best fantasy novels by year

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Here’s an update to this list.   Winner   Runner Ups   Year Author Title Author Title 2025 Travis Baldree Brigands & Breadknives     2024 Matt Haig The Life Impossible     2023 Alix E. Harrow Starling House Travis Baldree Bookshops & Bonedust       James Morrow Behold the Ape 2022 Naomi Novik […]

Author discovery of the year

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Here’s an update to this list. The big winner is Martha Wells for The Murderbot Diaries. Runner ups are Beth Revi for Chaotic Orbits, Joe Hart for Obscura, Nina Kiriki Hoffman for Star Trek: Voyager — Echoes, and Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann for Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes. Further runner ups are Ryan North […]

Forever (season 1)

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{5/5} “Atonement can take many forms: a heartfelt apology, a grand gesture, a silent prayer, or something more complex, more grey, more difficult to decipher. And while it’s true that no amount of atonement can ever change the past, it does have the power to heal us, to restore relationships and connections we thought were […]

Brigands & Breadknives

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{4.5/5} “A flock of starlings looped and bloomed and contracted as it described graceful patterns above the mist, dipping down sometimes to disappear, before reemerging in a plume of vapor. The rush of the long grass behind them seemed to swell and retreat in time with the movements of the birds… There atop the bluff, […]