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Emma Watson has moved on from the Harry Potter franchise to star in films such as The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Noah but she’ll always be Hermione Granger in the hearts of many geeks. Like her character, Watson has always been devoted to her academics. Therefore, it’s no surprise that she graduated on…
For those of you who have seen X-Men: Days of Future Past, you may have been shocked at Quicksilver’s wonderful portrayal. Most fans seemed skeptical after the release of his character’s feature cover. For those of you who haven’t this article is full of spoilers. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. The Look Peter Maximoff’s…
Don’t read suspicious emails, don’t try to win a free iPod from that banner ad, and beware of traumatizing fanfiction. These are the sorts of things you learn when you spend your formative years lurking in the darkest corners of the internet. I certainly did, and as such, I have watched the culture of fandoms…
Arya Stark is a very well-written character. Maisie Williams is a great actress. But Arya Stark may be my least favorite character in the Song of Ice and Fire series, book or show. In fact, she may be the most boring. I’ve Think I’ve Read This Before There is nothing wrong with the way George R R…
Slayers, executioners, and romance—Buffy Summers, a teenage girl from California, and Anita Blake, a college graduate working with a police task force, have more in common than their power to slay vampires without breaking a sweat. Abilities Buffy Summers, the once typical popular girl, was called to her role as the Slayer by fate when…
The Gone series by Michael Grant has everything that makes a YA novel popular and, in most cases, adaptable for film or television. But it’s not typical young adult literature and it seems people are too scared to touch it. Gone If you haven’t read the Gone series, read them. They’re young adult, which means they’re simple reads but…
Game of Thrones is stuffed full of interesting, well-rounded characters but it seems that most viewers tend to focus on a few key players. Yes, Peter Dinklage will probably be nominated for another Emmy for his role as Tyrion Lannister. And yes, Dany’s dragons are indeed awesome. The folks at HBO know which characters are…
Doctor Who has been on screen for 50 years and he’s gone through some drastic changes but the fans have always been there. Until now. Now, just when the show could come to a whole new level, fans may tear it apart. A Hole In Time and Space After 50 years on television, it’s not surprising…
The news that JK Rowling’s short novella Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them would be adapted into three features film scared a lot of fans of the series but they may have reason to be hopeful. In fact, if the current rumors that Alfonso Cuaron is in talk to direct are true, Harry Potter fans may be…
Disclaimer: This article will contain spoilers for Game of Thrones seasons 1 through 4. Also the author of this article would like to disclaim she has not read the “A Song of Of Ice and Fire” novels and can’t speak to how they would contest her analysis and criticisms. Winter is Coming, Sometime Soon? I’m…
Fairytale retellings: everyone’s doing them. Usually the shows, books, and movies are touted as “darker takes” on the original story, featuring beloved characters as villains or villains as beloved characters. Once Upon A Time has turned just about every fairytale on its head, and it occasionally makes for good TV. One of their main changes…
If you haven’t heard, this week marks the release of the ambitious X-Men: Days of Future Past. Starring actors and characters from separate X-Men franchises, the film works to build continuity between them and create a mega-franchise. But X-Men fans know all this already. It was the year 2000 when the first X film was…
I am back from my trek across the Narrow Sea. I saw everything! Daario Naharis’ junk, I rode a boat through the crotch of the Braavosi statue and I even got mistaken as a slaver. I’m all like, “Don’t nail me to a post, guys! That ain’t me.” The red waste, by the way, not…
Avid readers know that the Young Adult genre can be the literary equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Fortunately, in recent years more than ever, the genre is going through what some are calling a golden age or renaissance. With so many options, for better or worse, sometimes it’s easy to walk or…
I recently stumbled across an Internet argument that has become fairly common nowadays. It was a discussion on whether Frozen was overrated. Now, ignoring the fact that this is an argument taking place half a year after the film already made hundreds of millions of dollars and won two Oscars, it represents a deeper issue…