Happy birthday to me! Today, I was given one of the greatest presents in recent memory: a new trailer for the upcoming Jurassic World movie! Leading up to the release of this trailer, three new (awesome!) posters were also released: But as awesome as these posters are, this trailer man… This trailer takes the cake. Birthday cake, if you…
A few years ago, I had a student whose ultimate fandom of choice was Star Wars. Sure, I like Star Wars too, but Lucasverse does fall behind Rowlingverse and Tolkienverse for me. This kid… he’s read all the books, whereas I’ve read a total of, well, none. He explained to me that (SPOILER ALERT), in those books, Luke…
It’s been a few days—okay, fine, weeks—okay, fine, months (since December)—since I’ve visited Pottermore. Since there hasn’t been any updates since then, there hasn’t been a need. But then I notice this small, almost unnoticeable post on my news feed on Facebook from Pottermore. It was posted yesterday at 5:00 a.m. (my time–CDT). It reads…
Winter is coming (okay, so in Minnesota, we’re actually finally seeing signs of spring, but let’s face it: winter is always coming). Anyway, it’s probably high time we make ourselves cozy by the fire in the Gryffindor common room. Wait a minute. Gryffindor? Isn’t “winter is coming” the house words of the Stark family from Game…
CURRENT STATE: HUDDLED IN A BALL OF “I JUST CAN’T RIGHT NOW”. REASON FOR SAID STATE: MY ALL-TIME ABSOLUTE GOSH DARN FAVORITE VINE STAR THOMAS SANDERS IS COMING TO GEEKYCON AND I JUST CAN’T CONTAIN THE FEELS. Thomas Sanders, if you don’t know, is a Vine star. What’s Vine? Whew, you have been residing under a…
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Voldemort (spoiler alert!) kills Harry Potter. But not really. Voldemort really only killed the part of himself that resided within Harry, and Harry then came back to do away with the rest of him. I guess you really can’t keep that boy wizard down. After Deathly Hallows was published in…
The Fault In Our Stars, my first favorite John Green book. Paper Towns, my second favorite. I am so excited for this movie. Especially now that the first trailer and first poster have been released. Both look so awesome! The poster features Cara Delevingne and her sweeping hair with Nat Wolff, who played Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars.…
Jurassic World is open. The movie producers have gone to great lengths to make us imagine that Jurassic World is real, that it really exists, that you could buy a ticket and go there right now. How? Through a very cleverly designed website. If you visit JurassicWorld.com, you won’t get details about the upcoming movie. Instead, it’s…
Usually I read books before movies or TV shows are released that are based on them. Not so for Game of Thrones, but that’s maybe a good thing. I just recently finished the first book—four, almost five, TV seasons too late—so it was the show that spoiled pretty much everything in the first book for me.…
Well that happened quickly. Either that, or my life was too busy to notice how much time had passed. Probably the latter. Telltale’s Game of Thrones video game is actually a six-part episodic game series available for Mac, PC, PlayStation, Xbox and iOS. Episode One, Iron from Ice (which I have played and reviewed), was released…