Jan 17, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet Once a Queen (The Carrick Hall Novels, Book One) by Sarah Arthur (2024) After finishing Sarah Arthur’s Once a Queen and then discovering that she co-founded a festival dev…
Jan 16, 2024 Pop Culture Do we still need more Picard after Picard’s third season? It’s OK for stories to have definitive endings. Just ask Alan Moore.
Jan 16, 2024 Music “Terrace of Memories” by Terrace of Memories (Remastered) The 1992 collaboration between Black Tape For a Blue Girl and vidnaObmana was remastered last year.
Jan 14, 2024 Movies Watch the Trailer for Mogwai’s If the Stars Had a Sound The upcoming documentary chronicles the Scottish post-rock band’s decades-long career.
Jan 14, 2024 TV Cultural Diet Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Season One (2023) I feel like Monarch wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, it wants to be an intriguing Lost-…
Jan 13, 2024 Music “Lento Levante” by LOVA Producer Davide Lovato gives the blissed out sounds of balearic house a funky upgrade.
Jan 13, 2024 Anime Cultural Diet Fractale by Yutaka Yamamoto (2011) I started watching Fractale way back in the day on Hulu but never finished it. Still, something abo…
Jan 13, 2024 Opus News Some Opus Updates for the New Year 2024 means a new domain and host, more privacy, and more efficient content management.
Jan 12, 2024 Technology NASA’s New “X” Plane Is Designed to Create Quieter Sonic Booms The X-59’s purpose is to help regulators reassess civilian supersonic travel.
Jan 11, 2024 Music “Peace Sign” by Ride The iconic shoegaze outfit returns with a new album and an in-your-face single.
Jan 9, 2024 Opus News Supporting Opus in 2024 If you enjoy reading Opus, then there are several ways that you can support my efforts.
Jan 8, 2024 Movies Cultural Diet The Bourne Legacy by Tony Gilroy (2012) After 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon refused to make another Bourne movie without director…
Jan 8, 2024 Movies Jerry Lewis’s Infamous The Day the Clown Cried Will Finally See the Light of Day The controversial Holocaust film has remained locked away for over 50 years.
Jan 7, 2024 Comics Cultural Diet The Daughters of Ys by M. T. Anderson and Jo Rioux (2020) Inspired by classic Breton folk tales, The Daughters of Ys spins a dark tale about two sisters driv…
Jan 7, 2024 Video Games Cultural Diet Superliminal (2019) I played this on a whim and was pleasantly surprised. Some obvious comparisons can be made to the P…
Jan 6, 2024 Music Abandonware by Roman à Clef (Review) Featuring members of A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Ice Choir, Roman à Clef’s 2015 debut is filled with dreamily literate indie-pop.
Jan 5, 2024 Opus News My Favorite Posts From 2023 These posts from last year best exemplify what I’m trying to achieve here on Opus.
Jan 3, 2024 Literature Cultural Diet Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson (2023) If you haven’t read any of Brandon Sanderson’s other novels set in his extensive (some might say, c…
Jan 3, 2024 Personal My Cultural Diet for December 2023: The Boy and the Heron, Reservation Dogs, Godzilla Minus One A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Jan 1, 2024 TV Cultural Diet Foundation, Season Two (2023) In my review of Foundation’s first season, I wrote that it tried to fit way too much into just ten …