Author: Noey Pico

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Delayed Impressions: Netflix’s Jessica Jones, Season 1

This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of Jessica Jones. You've been warned. I've been trying to get my thoughts in order over Jessica Jones ever since I binge-watched the series. Getting the right words down has been difficult, because it's is not an easy show to watch. It's not built along the lines of what we've perhaps…

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Avengers Disassemble – Captain America: Civil War Official Trailer #1

The official trailer for Captain America: Civil War is finally out and my delicate inner Marvel fangirl is lying in a pool of her own tears. In the thirteenth installment to Marvel's ever-growing Cinematic Universe, the Russo Brothers team up with writers Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely (The First Avenger, Winter Soldier, and the Agent…

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The Odds Finally in Her Favor: A Review of Mockingjay Part 2

When the decision to split the final installment of The Hunger Games into two films was announced, I was torn over my own feelings of whether it could actually work. On one hand, Mockingjay is the densest book out of the trilogy both in sheer number of pages and in content -- and let's be…

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Not Your Narnia: BBC, New Line Set to Produce Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

It has been ages since I read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, and a good eight years since I hit up the cinemas to line up to watch The Golden Compass. While I’m going to need to reacquaint myself with the series, it doesn’t change the fact that this is pretty exciting news for…

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All Fun and Shenanigans ’til Someone Falls: A Review of Kate Evangelista’s No Love Allowed

Ever since Swoon Reads, the crowd-sourced online imprint of Macmillan, announced they were going to publish “No Love Allowed” by home-grown author Kate Evangelista, I've been waiting with bated breath to see if I could get my hands on the Advanced Reader's Edition. (more…)

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