Movies & TV Shows

Project Hail Mary Review: Does the Movie Live Up to the Book?

When I first read Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir several years ago, I thought it was one of the best stories I’d ever read. But when I heard they were making it into a movie, I was uncertain. The story is about a human astronaut’s friendship with an alien that looks like a rock…

My Favorite Things to Watch About Space

I’m one of those people who’s obsessed with outer space. In college I started watching TV shows like The Universe and documentary series like When We Left Earth, and ever since I’ve devoured anything I can find about the Apollo missions, other planets, spaceships, astronauts, and life beyond our atmosphere. And that extends to science fiction — particularly…

Bandersnatch Review: Brave but Boring?

I really wanted to like Netflix’s choose-your-own-adventure experiment Bandersnatch. Part of the Black Mirror series — which features standalone episodes exploring all kinds of futuristic ideas and dark themes — Bandersnatch is about a programmer in the 1980’s trying to create a video game based on his favorite choose-your-own-adventure novel. The cool thing is that the entire episode is a…

What Harry Potter Means to Me

I was a little late to the Harry Potter game. Though the books started coming out when I was a preteen — which would have been the perfect time to read them — I was devouring Lord of the Rings and Dune back then. And Harry Potter wasn’t high on the reading list at my school. Maybe the silliness of some…

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