Release Date: July 17, 2015 Cast: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Peña Director: Peyton Reed Studio: Marvel Studios Distributor: Walt Disney Motion Pictures Genres: superhero, science fiction, action Based On: Ant-Man comics by Stan Lee Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: Light IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes | Wikipedia Ant-Man tells the story of […]
Breakups Suck. “It Ended Badly” Doesn’t.
It Ended Badly: Thirteen of the Worst Breakups in History Author: Jennifer Wright Release Date: November 3, 2015 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Source: Netgalley Genre(s): historical non-fiction, humor Rating: ★★★★☆ Review Spoilers: N/A GoodReads | Amazon Jennifer Wright’s book, It Ended Badly, is the literary equivalent of ice cream and Kleenex. Whether you’ve […]
Teen Wolf: Condition Terminal Recap
Synopsis: The Doctor Who robots get an official name (Dread Doctors) and the team figures out they’re making supernatural chimeras. What they don’t know (yet) is that Theo is working with them. Things between Lyds and Parrish heat up both literally and figuratively, only partially because it looks like Parrish […]
Teen Wolf: Dreamcatchers Recap
Synopsis: Tracy is a Kanima who transforms and goes on a murderous rampage before the creepy robots kill her. The twerp (Donovan) who got arrested in the first episode this season ends up getting kidnapped by the creepy robots. Rating: ????? A few notes to start this week’s episode: 1. […]
Teen Wolf: Parasomnia Recap
Synopsis: A suspicious Stiles investigates Theo when parts of his story don’t match up. Meanwhile, a girl named Tracy who experiences night terrors becomes the creepy robots’ next target. Rating: ★★★☆☆ After last week’s introduction with attractive-but-suspicious Theo, we start out this week in Mama Martin’s school counseling office where […]
Teen Wolf: Creatures of the Night Recap
Synopsis: The gang reunite for their senior year, but they’re greeted by a new enemy: a werewolf that has the ability to drain his victims’ power with his claws. In the future, Lydia is institutionalized in Eichenhouse and predicts the deaths of all her friends. Rating: ★★★★☆ Okay, why you […]
Nerdophiles Catch Up: Season 4 of Teen Wolf
It’s that time of year again! Stiles, Lydia, Kira, and Scott are back for the premiere of season 5 of Teen Wolf on MTV this Monday, June 29th. Time to refresh on what happened last season: The Kate/Peter Storyline Season 4 saw the return of Kate Argent–Allison’s formerly-deceased-hunter-aunt newly turned […]
Orphan Black: History Yet To Be Written Recap
Synopsis: The Leda team negotiates with Ferdinand to eliminate Castor’s people, only to find that an old enemy has been pulling the puppet strings all along. Delphine does her best to hold Dyad together in the midst of corporate betrayal, only to (possibly) meet her demise at the end of […]
Orphan Black: Certain Agony of the Battlefield Recap
Synopsis: Paul learns the Castor Project has been performing unsanctioned human tests to sterilize women via the clones’ contagious virus. Sarah is tested and found to be immune to the virus, and Paul saves her before one of the Castor clones kills him. Helena reunites with Sarah, and the other […]
Scarlett Undercover is Smart, Savvy, and Everything Good YA Should Be
Scarlett Undercover Author: Jennifer Latham Release Date: May 19, 2015 Publisher: Little Brown Source: NetGalley Genre(s): Mystery, Detective, YA Rating: ★★★★★ Review Spoilers: Medium GoodReads | Amazon Scarlett is a Muslim-American teenage detective, and she just got a new case. A teenager jumped to his death off a bridge, but it turns out […]
English