If you have a time travel port, it only makes sense to have a luxury hotel nearby. And, of course, considering the clientele, security is a primary concern. In The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart, we meet January Cole, who runs security and deals with a lot of trifling problems of the rich. But she has problems of her own, along with a major event planned for the hotel and there’s something not quite right with the daily routine.
Space missions for the colonizing of planets is not a new idea in science fiction – actually, it’s downright common at this point. So when that’s the basic premise of a novel, it takes something a little different to stand out from the crowd. Author Edward Ashton has managed that in Mickey7, with the idea of “expendables”, people willing to do suicidal tasks to make sure the missions succeed.
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I truly enjoy Mark Millar movies, especially the Kingsman franchise. The plots and characters are usually pretty interesting and things are never taken all that seriously. But the best part of these movies is the violence. Not only are the fight scenes well-choreographed, they are on the extreme side and often executed in ways not seen in other movies. Yes, they tend to lean to the ridiculous, but that’s sort of the point. And the newest installment of the franchise, a prequel titled The King’s Man, holds its own among the chaos.
The next big Marvel movie is now in theaters, bringing us the first Asian lead character in the MCU. Not only that, but the cast is around 95% Asian as well, diversity and representation not seen in a superhero film since we explored Wakanda in Black Panther. And unlike the flashback setting of the last MCU movie, Black Widow, this one is set in the present day MCU timeline. And Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has the action and mythology that we never knew the MCU was in need of until now.
After surviving the Fox/Disney merger along with multiple bumped release dates, Free Guy has finally made it into theaters. One of the first films to be released under 20th Century Studios, it stars Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a non-playable character (NPC) in a video game (though he doesn’t know that). He works as a teller at a bank that gets robbed multiple times a day by “sunglasses people”, who NPCs know they can’t interact with except to play out their predetermined roles. But then Guy sees the woman of his dreams and decides to change his life.