TV #54 of 2025: Wednesday, season 2 I gave the first season of this Addams Family modernization a rave review, praising its heroine, plot, comedy, and tone, but I’m afraid I’m rather cooler on this belated follow-up. (Seriously, I know this is not an issue limited to Netflix, but taking three years to produce eight …
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Movie Review: Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)
Movie #23 of 2025: Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023) This is, for now, the latest screen entry in the winding Babylon 5 franchise, though there’s no indication that it’s meant to represent a conclusion or anything. In fact, this title is a prequel of sorts — taking place near the end of the TV …
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Movie Review: The Ewok Adventure (1984)
Movie #22 of 2025: The Ewok Adventure (1984) My daughters (aged 6 and 4) lost interest midway through both A New Hope and The Phantom Menace, so I decided to see if this TV movie from the 1980s — later retitled to Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, though I’ve never called it by that …
TV Review: The Sopranos, season 4
TV #53 of 2025: The Sopranos, season 4 Another season of this family/crime drama that’s only periodically at its most effective, although the finale does a lot to clarify how the gradual dissolution of the central marriage ought to have been our primary focus all along. Unfortunately, however, the year leading up to that terrific …
Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Movie #21 of 2025: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) After nearly two decades, the Indiana Jones trilogy of the 1980s got another big-screen outing, although the brand had survived in the meantime with a succession of video game projects, a TV show about the character’s childhood adventures, and the like. …
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Book Review: 107 Days by Kamala Harris
Book #178 of 2025: 107 Days by Kamala Harris Plenty of books have been written about modern politics, but the most obvious comparison point for this particular one is probably Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign memoir What Happened, produced in the wake of her loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 election for president. Kamala Harris …
Book Review: Murdle: Volume 3 by G. T. Karber
Book #177 of 2025: Murdle: Volume 3 by G. T. Karber Another hundred logic-grid puzzles of increasing complexity, identical in format to the previous volumes but totally standalone besides a few Easter Egg connections of returning characters and the like. (I particularly love the ones involving contradictory witness statements, where you have to figure out …
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Book Review: Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Book #176 of 2025: Silver Elite by Dani Francis (Silver Elite #1) A whole lot of fun and just a little bit trashy, this romantasy title reads like a wild blend of the steamy military academy vibes from Fourth Wing and the covert revolutionary mission from Red Rising. Our heroine is a telepath, a member …
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TV Review: Star Wars: Visions, season 3
TV #52 of 2025: Star Wars: Visions, season 3 I rated the previous batches of this experimental Star Wars anthology as two and four stars respectively, and so this latest one will get a rating of three from me, as it lands comfortably between the first pair. Like before, each episode is the product of …
Book Review: Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley
Book #175 of 2025: Royal Gambit by Daniel O’Malley (The Checquy Files #4) I think this 2025 title is my favorite installment of its urban fantasy series yet, and like the others, it can essentially be read as a standalone piece. The Checquy are a British intelligence agency tasked with protecting the realm from supernatural …
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