If I’m being perfectly honest, the movie I’m most looking forward to this upcoming fall/winter is Avatar: The Way of Water. This is a little embarrassing to…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 20: Blue Space Cats”

Nona the Ninth, the third book in Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series, came out on Tuesday. I spent all last weekend rereading the previous two books in…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 19: Space Magic and Skeletons”

My husband and I went to a couple of record stores yesterday evening. I like vinyl, and we have a decent collection, but the real draw for…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 18: Vinyl and LaserDiscs”

The Rings of Power has been heralded as the Next Big Fantasy Epic, something to fill the hole left behind when Game of Thrones ended—or at least,…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 17: Swords and Megachurches”

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Abi Demaris Corbin’s film Breaking traces the mental unraveling of Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega) as he walks into a bank with a backpack and a detonator. He…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 16: Breaking (2022)”

The Mountain Goats released a new album called Bleed Out yesterday. It’s a concept album revolving around 80s action movies; almost all of the songs on the…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 15: Action Movie Cliches”

It’s been humbling to pick up my paperback copy of The Silmarillion for the first time in about a decade. In the years since, I’d forgotten about…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 14: Elves and Marginalia”

Recently, a Twitter mutual of mine convinced me to give the movie Real Steel a chance. The movie came out in 2010 to a mixed reaction, then…… Read more “New from Sarah Welch-Larson on Substack: 13: Teaching a Robot to Box”

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